Massachusetts House Speaker Robert DeLeo says the state's early childhood education system is in crisis.
DeLeo says many underpaid and underqualified workers are caring for the state's youngest students. Massachusetts has some of the costliest day care in the country.
DeLeo says the state needs to make more of an investment in the system and its workers.
Day care workers earn an average of 25-thousand-dollars a year, just above the federal poverty level.