Master Plan for Early Learning and Care: Making California For All Kids

In November 2019, the California Health and Human Services Agency engaged a team of researchers led by WestEd to develop a Master Plan for Early Learning and Care (Master Plan) to create a roadmap that put into action past recommendations and research about the benefts of quality early learning and care. The team was tasked with addressing five interrelated substantive issue areas within California’s early learning and care system: access, quality, universal preschool, facilities, and fnancing. The Master Plan is a framework with which to realize the vision of ensuring that all California children thrive physically, emotionally, and educationally in their early years, through access to high-quality early learning and care resources; equitable opportunities for the workforce that advance equitable outcomes for children; and greater effciencies to the state today and every day through structures for continuous improvement.