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Building a professional early childhood workforce requires a compensation-first approach

11 Apr 2023

Teachers who work in child care settings in the United States earn $11.65 per hour on averageless than half of what their peers working in schools earn, and below a living wage in most U.S. counties. Accordingly, even prior to the pandemic, child care teachers left the profession at considerably higher rates than K-12 teachers. In Louisiana, for example, nearly half of child care teachers working one year were gone the next.
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Authors

Daphna Bassok, Laura Bellows, Anna J. Markowitz, Kate Miller-Bains

Published in
United States of America

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