1. Provide parent education and family support programs that strengthen families and promote school readiness. Expand Healthy families, maintain Family Literacy, increase parent education, improve knowledge of early brain and child development and support early literacy.

2. Increase health screenings for Arizona children birth to six years old. Increase well-child screens (medical, developmental, behavioral, oral), immunize all children, train health professionals on screening and child care staff on oral health and conduct hearing screenings on all newborns.

3. Assist families who earn low wages by providing adequate funding for childcare subsidies. Maintain caseload growth and eliminate waiting list to allow low-income working families to afford care for their children.

4. Improve the quality, health and safety of early childhood education settings. Offer child care providers technical assistance to improve quality, phase in quality rating system, ensure sufficient monitoring of health and safety and improve infant-toddler care.

5. Enhance students' chances of academic success with full-day kindergarten. Governor Napolitano has signed legislation to provide additional funding for full-day kindergarten instruction, beginning with schools with a high percentage of children on the free/reduced lunch program.

6. Phase in high-quality, state-supported preschool. Expand supply of preschool; redirect Early Childhood Block Grant to high-quality preschool.

7. Provide childcare providers and preschools with access to a nurse health consultant. Phase in a health consultant system to improve child and staff health and safety by providing access to a healthcare professional.

8. Increase the pool and retention so early childhood professionals. Develop a professional development system, provide scholarships to improve number, diversity and quality of early education teachers, phase in wage incentive program and establish the Chase Emergent Leadership Program.

9. Create public/private partnerships to build the capacity of local communities to provide quality early childhood education. Establish AZ Early Education Fund, recruit Advisory Committee, raise private donations, galvanize business leaders, build quality early childhood education at local level, empower families and instill a foundation for reading.

10. Coordinate early childhood education functions between state agencies, Head start and Tribes. Coordinate and maximize efficiency of early childhood education functions under auspices of the Division for School Readiness and develop Accountability System to report indicators and for continuous system improvement.