Quality Early Learning For All

A baby is holding its mother 's hand.

America is facing a childcare and quality early learning crisis that impacts most households with children under age 5, and which costs the national economy approximately $121 billion annually.  When parents can't find or afford quality care for their young children, they often cannot work.  This harms their family's financial stability and contributes to job vacancies, further straining the economy.

Meanwhile,  childcare centers struggle to pay their staff a living wage, as higher wages would make the cost of care unaffordable for most families.

This is not just an economic problem, though.  This crisis affects America as a people due to children not having access to quality early learning where they can begin to learn the vital skills they need in order to thrive -- essential personal life skills education should begin at birth as a part of quality early learning.

Just as public education was mandated for all children in grades K-12, it's time to address the need for quality early learning for all children too; not just programs for those from low-income families, but for ALL children in our nation.  This should be:

      • Funded by taxpayer dollars,

      • Run by the private sector,

      • Administered by each state,

      • Measured, monitored, and rated by third-party agencies to ensure quality.

Including quality early learning for all children from birth to age 5 would level the playing field, offering equal opportunity regardless of location or income and boosting individual outcomes nationwide.  It would allow all children to begin learning the essential personal life skills they need so they can win the biggest game -- LIFE!

Additionally, implementing a plan for quality early learning for all children would not only be transformative for struggling families due to improving their financial stability but would also strengthen our national economy.

A poster with the steps to help children in need.

Please go back to our home page and take a look at the chart for some samples of common problems that can be avoided if people had essential personal life skills.

How to use santorofoundation.org

This website is a free resource of material to help improve  essential personal life skills.  The materials on this website range from individual “sayings” to a full personal life skills curriculum program called Alive2Thrive.  To help you become your best self, please review all this site has to offer.  It is important you pass this site along to others so they can be the best they can be, and by doing so, we will build a better society.