Truly transforming Minnesota so that all children have access to a qualified, diverse, supported and fairly compensated early childhood educator will take many years of policy changes, significant investment of resources and fervent commitment to the end goal.

In April and May, we created five new subcommittees that corresponded to the five priority areas of our draft plan. We invited subject matter experts and those who had indicated an interest in being involved to participate and held a series of meetings that looked at all the data gathered to date and then organized the data into appropriate categories for consideration and action.