Provide a safe educational environment that promotes the retention of our Quality Early Childhood Systems educators, by allocating resources to rural areas to improve the quality of building and classroom resources.

According to Berkley's study on the racial wage gaps in early education employment, Black and Hispanic early educators are overrepresented in roles that place their wages not only at the bottom of the early childhood workforce but at the bottom of the entire U.S. labor market. In early education, as elsewhere, the permeation of racism and bias throughout the labor market is indefensible.

Providing awareness about the benefits of hiring Black and Hispanic educators and representatives in local Early Childhood Systems providers.

Promoting the benefits of bilingual representation in early childhood education and the systems that support early childhood development. According to a study published by Columbia University, participation rates vary by race and ethnicity with Hispanic children maintaining the lowest enrollment levels, primarily because they lack access to such programs.

According to research conducted by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, high inequality hinders GDP growth and reduces social mobility. Unequal opportunity results in a talent loss for the individual as well as for society. It also gives rise to a sense of injustice that can feed social unrest and decrease trust in institutions and political systems...Disadvantaged students are three times as likely to be among PISA’s poor performers as children from socio-economically advantaged backgrounds... An important first step is providing access to high-quality early childhood education (ECEC) for all children. There is now a wealth of evidence, including longitudinal studies, that investing in ECEC yields high returns in boosting cognitive and non-cognitive skills, as well as later success in the labor market, especially for disadvantaged children.