Perspectives S34/Ep4: The importance of early childhood education

More than one-third of Georgia parents with young children say they or someone in their family has had to quit a job, not take a job, or greatly change jobs in the past year because of problems with childcare. The ongoing pandemic has only aggravated the problem. For more than a decade, GEEARS, the Georgia early education alliance for ready students, works to inspire and to provide leadership for a statewide movement on quality early learning and healthy development for all children from birth through age five. Mindy Binderman is the executive director of GEEARS. Next we talk with Monique Shields the Executive Director of Breakthrough Atlanta, a nonprofit summer program for students which currently is recruiting student teachers for its 2022 program.