Affordable and high-quality early childhood education is economically unattainable in Marin County, so local government should step in to fund it, according to supporters of a 15-year parcel tax on the Nov. 3 ballot. Opponents of the tax say it has no spending rules and no way to judge results.

On Nov. 3, Marin County voters will decide whether to approve Measure P, a parcel tax also called the Marin County Child Care Initiative that is expected to generate about $12.5 million annually for childcare and early childhood education programs.

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Ruth Dusseault is an investigative reporter and multimedia journalist focused on environment and energy. Her position is supported by the California local news fellowship, a statewide initiative spearheaded by UC Berkeley aimed at supporting local news platforms. While a student at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism (c’23), Ruth developed stories about the social and environmental circumstances of contaminated watersheds around the Great Lakes, Mississippi River and Florida’s Lake Okeechobee. Her thesis explored rights of nature laws in small rural communities. She is a former assistant professor and artist in residence at Georgia Tech’s School of Architecture, and uses photography, film and digital storytelling to report on the engineered systems that undergird modern life.