This document lays out a roadmap that we—advocates and policy leaders at both the state and federal levels— can use to chart a course toward a stronger child care system. Many ideas will be familiar, but some are new and even untested. Some respond to the immediate impacts of the pandemic, while others move the system more boldly into a more ambitious future in which child care is truly recognized as a public good — and financed as such. These ideas may take more time and effort to advocate for, but they might also gain traction because of our extraordinary times. (author abstract)