With the 2024 Legislative Session rapidly approaching, MACo is profiling some major issues that stand to gather attention in the General Assembly. The Blueprint for Maryland's Future ("The Blueprint") sets ambitious goals for universal pre-K for all three and four-year-olds in Maryland, utilizing private child care networks to meet those goals. In prior legislative sessions, the Maryland General Assembly laid the framework for universal pre-K and responded to Maryland's threatened post-pandemic child care industry. The…