Early Childhood Education (ECE) Apprenticeships offer tremendous potential for helping to address this issue by allowing early educators to pursue on-the-job learning opportunities that help them acquire the knowledge and skills they need, along a pathway to the credential or degree they desire to advance their career. By dedicating federal funding for this promising practice, the Early Educators Apprenticeship Act would bolster the efforts that already exist in states to utilize ECE apprenticeships to address this critical need. (author abstract)