In California, child care and early education is more expensive than college, with average, full-time infant care costing more per year than tuition at the University of California Berkeley and almost three times the annual cost of California State East Bay.

Closer to home, a growing homeless population in Alameda County includes hundreds of children and their families who cannot get access to quality child care and early education services.

According to the 2016 Center for the Study of Child Care Employment Report, 75% of child care providers in Alameda County struggle to pay monthly bills, and more than half worry about putting food on the table. Low compensation disproportionately affects low-income women, as early educators are almost exclusively female, with large numbers of older women, women of color, recent immigrants, and first-generation college students and mothers.

the measure will provide high quality child care and early education services for low- and middle-income children and families in Alameda County and improved wages for participating child care providers and early educators so that they can earn at least $15 per hour with appropriate adjustments for the cost of living

The California Schools and Local Communities Funding Act of 2018 would place California on par with how the majority of states treat commercial property by assessing them at fair market value. The California Schools and Local Communities Funding Act does not change Proposition 13's cap on tax rates.

The Alameda Unified School District Board of Education wishes to increase public awareness of the Alameda County Ballot Measure for Child Care and Early Education on the June 5, 2018 ballot.