Education System is Accessible and High-Quality
North Carolina’s birth-through-age-eight education system is available to all, user-friendly, culturally-competent, employs a racially diverse, high-quality workforce, and supports all aspects of children’s development, including literacy and language development, cognition, approaches to learning, physical well-being, and social-emotional development.
Prioritized Actions
Click on an action below to learn more about it and some key initiatives in North Carolina.
North Carolina’s youngest children have access (including availability, convenience and affordability) to early care and education programs and supports prior to kindergarten entry, including child care, Early Head Start, Head Start, Title I, and NC Pre-K.
North Carolina’s children have the opportunity to learn in environments that are culturally relevant and free from systemic racism and cultural and racial implicit bias.
Provide Professional Development for Teachers on Cultural Competency and Working with Families
View InitiativesNorth Carolina’s children, especially those with the most roadblocks to opportunity, have well-trained, high-quality teachers and school leaders, from birth-through-third grade.
Increase Standards and Compensation of Birth-through-Age-Five Educators
View InitiativesSupport Incentives to Ensure High Quality Educators in High Need Schools and Early Education Programs
View InitiativesCreate Collaborative Birth-through-Third Grade Professional Development
View InitiativesNorth Carolina’s early learning environments support and promote children’s social-emotional development and executive functioning.
