In May, President Obama announced a $500 million federal grant competition to improve early childhood education in America.  This competition, modeled on the Race to the Top program that spotlighted the need for public school reform, has the potential to increase the focus on the importance of children’s earliest years of life for healthy cognitive and social development.  This comes at a time when Congress and the states are thinking about ways to improve child care.  

Will innovations in child care result?  Which states are already making changes to their child care systems that may give them a leg up in the competition? What resources will be needed to scale up those innovations? 

Join the New America Foundation for a conversation about early learning in child care settings and how dual generational child care policies can support families.