The Common Start early education and childcare legislation would provide affordable and accessible high quality early education and childcare in Massachusetts. This is a League priority bill that was featured at Day on the Hill. See League testimony here and fact sheet here.
While the Common Start bill itself is still pending, significant funding for early education and childcare is now in the budget conference committee as part of the House and Senate budget bills. Please contact your legislators to ask them to encourage the Legislature's budget conference committee to include the new early education and child care funding from both the House AND Senate budgets in their final conference budget. If the priorities of both chambers make it into the final budget, it would represent a substantial step toward implementing our full vision of a high-quality early education and childcare system that is affordable and accessible for all families.
Please call or email your state Senator and Representative; leave a voice message. Find your legislator’s contact information here.
Here is a suggested script:
I’m a member of the League of Women Voters of ________ and a constituent. I am contacting you about the Common Start early education and childcare funding provisions that are part of the House and Senate budget bills now in the budget conference committee. I am asking you to urge the Legislature's budget conference committee to include the new early education and child care funding from both the House AND Senate budgets in their final conference budget, to advance the vision of a high-quality early education and childcare system that is affordable and accessible for all families in Massachusetts.
Thank you!
(Your name and your street address)
