Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott on Monday announced a $500,000 investment into early childhood education with the goal of improving access to childcare programs.

The grant funding will be managed by the Fund for Educational Excellence and will be used to gather data on child care access and enrollment in Baltimore to help providers improve care for young people with special needs and help drive enrollment through readiness campaigns and assistance from navigators who help parents find programs for their infants and toddlers.

"Closing the early childhood education gap is no easy task, the mayor said. "It is a problem facing every community and every parent in the country."

The mayor also said he directed his team to identify investments that the city can make to expand access to and increa

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