With 20 new governors and 16 re-elected governors starting new terms in January, 2019 has the potential to be a year of big change at the state level. This is particularly the case in the early childhood policy arena, as many newly elected governors discussed early childhood education as part of their campaigns. Governors are in a prime position to make progress on this issue and elevate the positive impact that access to high-quality early childhood education can have for children, working families, and businesses. Without reliable child care, parents may drop out of the workforce, miss workdays, or reduce their hours--all of which can have a significant impact on families' economic security and employers' productivity. A recent analysis from Indiana found that a lack of access to child care costs the state nearly $1.1 billion in economic activity every year.4 Other studies have estimated that if families in every state were able to access affordable child care, the returns from increased maternal labor force participation would amount to approximately $70 billion annually, boosting U.S. gross domestic product by around 1.2 percent. In an increasingly polarized political environment, early childhood education stands out as a bipartisan issue. A national poll conducted by the Center for American Progress (CAP) in 2018 found that more than three-quarters of parents and around two-thirds of voters with no children said that they were more likely to vote "for a candidate who supports increased funding for child care assistance and to expand access to early childhood education." In this report, CAP lays out an agenda for governors to make progress on early childhood in 2019 and beyond. Families need affordable, high-quality early childhood programs and supports for healthy child development from birth to kindergarten that reflect parents' needs and prepare children for school. There are key steps governors can take early on to signal that early childhood education is a priority for their administrations and set their respective states on a path toward this goal. To that end, this report begins with examples of actions that governors can take in the first 100 days of their administration. The authors then discuss comprehensive solutions that governors and their states should work toward to make lasting progress to support families and young children.