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Public education is a highly valued public good.
In fact, voters in Washington state overwhelmingly supported two recent ballot initiatives to increase school spending and teacher pay. Dedicated and committed early childhood education child teachers provide highly valuable public benefits. While many workers in the service economy are underpaid and undervalued, child care workers, quite literally, hold the future in their hands. The fundamental problem in child care is that the tuition that most parents can afford to pay is too low to provide consistent quality, including adequate compensation for the teachers. The underfunding of child care is due to the perception of child care as a market good, not a public good.