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Mia Naula, 3, left, Mini Santosh, child care director, and Ana Clara Goncalves, 4, play with building toys at Action Early Learning Center in Danbury. “We are very systematically devalued, underinvested,” Santosh said, who has been an early childhood educator for three decades. Yehyun Kim / ctmirror.org