Pennsylvania's Promise for Children

Quality early learning is crucial to our young children’s intellectual, social and emotional development. The benefits that our children and families experience from quality early learning opportunities extend to all of our communities by making it possible forrents to work and build a stable family structure for their children; by increasing our children’s success in school and in life; and in turn by creating a stronger workforce and tax base today and in the future. Programs that increase access to quality early learning, such as those administered by the Office of Child Development and Early Learning (OCDEL) and itsrtners, are a vitalrt of Pennsylvania’s overall goal to make the Commonwealth an attractive place to live and work.Early Childhood Education