Parents' Reflections on DC's Early Childhood Educator Pay Equity Fund: Findings from the DC Child Care Policy Research Partnership

Autor/inn/en	Bose, Soumita; Lauderback, Eleanor; Sandstrom, Heather; Kuhns, Catherine; Casas, Michelle
Institution	Urban Institute
Titel	Parents' Reflections on DC's Early Childhood Educator Pay Equity Fund: Findings from the DC Child Care Policy Research Partnership
Quelle	(2023), (2 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Parent Attitudes; Teacher Salaries; Child Care Centers; Early Childhood Teachers; Labor Turnover; Wages; Comparable Worth; Teacher Role; District of Columbia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Elternverhalten; Lehrerbesoldung; Lehrervergütung; Child care facilities; Child care services; Kinderzentrum; Kinderbetreuung; Early childhood; Early childhood education; Teacher; Teachers; Frühe Kindheit; Frühkindliche Bildung; Frühpädagogik; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Wage; Löhne; Lohngerechtigkeit; Lehrerrolle
Abstract	In 2021, the DC Council established the Early Childhood Educator Pay Equity Fund ("Pay Equity Fund") to improve compensation for early educators in licensed child development centers and homes. The fund leverages a tax on individuals earning more than $250,000 a year to sustainably fund supplemental payments to early educators in efforts to address longstanding inequities and achieve pay parity with public school teachers with a comparable degree. In spring 2022, the authors surveyed 137 DC residents who had newly enrolled a child in a licensed DC child care program. They held virtual focus groups with a subsample of 39 survey respondents in fall 2022, just as the first Pay Equity Fund payments were rolling out, to probe on specific survey findings around search process difficulty and child care experiences. During the focus groups, the authors asked parents and legal guardians about their experiences with staff turnover in their child care programs as well as their thoughts about the pay supplements and how their children's teachers could benefit. In this fact sheet, the authors summarize parents' thoughts on the Pay Equity Fund payments and their suggestions for additional ways the District could help child care programs recruit and retain qualified staff. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01