Those “areas of consensus” included ideas on how to address fundamental challenges of early care and education: how to pay early childhood teachers more, how to expand the supply and affordability of child care and pre-K, and how to support families during the transition to parenthood. When it comes to building on what the state has, the commission recommended increasing access to child care and pre-K through funding shifts in the state’s subsidy program and its NC Pre-K program. The report asks the state to invite and test new ideas for some fundamental early childhood challenges: making early childhood teaching a viable career and increasing the supply of infant and toddler care.