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Paying Up: Enhancing Child Care Compensation Systems in Colorado, D.C. and Louisiana

January 19, 2024

“High-quality early education leads to lifelong success for children and their communities, and it cannot happen without professionals cultivating and facilitating these important learning experiences…” Continued

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OPINION: A hopeful note for early childhood education in 2024 — Some states are stepping up investment

January 15, 2024

“Millions of families may now face a lack of child care following the recent expiration of pandemic-era federal funding. The child care “stabilization” funds included in the American Rescue Plan Act were just that — emergency funding to stabilize the sector amid a pandemic…” Continued

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ECE Workers Identify Issues Barriers to National Certification, Study Finds

December 13, 2023

“A majority of early childhood education (ECE) workers who would be most affected by the creation of a national teaching certification expressed support for such a system, according toa recent studyon advancing ECE compensation and equity…”READ MORE(Link may be broken —archived version) Continued

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New Funding Initiative Aims to Boost Wages for Early Educators — And Help Fix a Broken System

December 12, 2023

“America’s child care system is broken,” the Annie E. Casey Foundation stated flatly when it released its Kids Count Data Book this year. Each year, the foundation provides an overview of American children and their wellbeing…” Continued

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Early education coalition searches for answers to raise teacher pay, even as budgets are cratering

November 30, 2023

“The Early Educator Investment Collaborative, a coalition of philanthropies that provide grants to support early childhood programs, is sending about $9 million in grants to Louisiana, Colorado and D.C. to find long-term answers for raising early educators’ pay.…” Continued

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Investing in New Systems for Paying Educators What They Need and Deserve

February 21, 2023

“For U.S. children to realize their potential, the professionals who care and educate them need the training, respect and compensation that make for a fulfilling career. The Early Educator Investment Collaborative is dedicated to promising and innovative ways to make that happen…” Continued

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Teaching the youngest: grant offering targets early-learning programs

February 14, 2023

“People who know about children and their care tell us often that taking good care of children EARLY in life pays big dividends later. That’s why so much attention is paid to quality childcare for working parents…”LISTEN HERE… Continued

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RAND Report Highlights Unique Challenges Facing Hawaii’s Early Child Care Workforce

January 3, 2023

“The early child care education workforce was strained even before the pandemic. Poor pay and benefits not only hurt recruitment and retention, but demoralized providers. While early childhood educators across the country are feeling the burden…” Continued

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Squaring Up with History: Child Trends’ Chrishana Lloyd and Julianna Carlson Dig Deep on the Value of Care

November 4, 2022

“A new report commissioned by the Early Educator Investment Collaborative—Mary Pauper: A Historical Exploration of Early Care and Education Compensation, Policy and Solutions—is one of the most talked-about publications in the field today…” Continued

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For Early-Childhood Grant Makers, Collaboration Is Key

August 9, 2022

“When Phyllis Glink took a job at the Irving Harris Foundation 26 years ago, the foundation’s namesake donor would often share a parable. It went like this: A group of people are sitting on a riverbank…” Continued

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Raising Child Care Fund Grantees Lifting Up Voices of Early Educators

August 4, 2022

“The Raising Child Care Fund (RCCF), an initiative of ECFC, pools private foundation dollars to give grants to groups that lift up the voices of families, early educators, and allies…” Continued

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States stuck trying to fix early ed pay as feds drop the ball

April 21, 2022

“Earlier this year, I spent some time in Milwaukee, Wisconsin learning about local efforts to draw new early childhood teachers into the field by creating programs that allow high school students…” Continued

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State of American Philanthropy: Giving for Early Childhood Education

April 1, 2022

“Until recently, philanthropy has neglected early childhood education (ECE) in favor of higher-profile funding areas, like K-12 education and healthcare. But that has begun to change in recent years…” Continued

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Op-Ed: America’s approach to early childhood education is completely unsustainable

February 12, 2022

“Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, alarming attrition and turnover in the early education workforce has gotten even worse. Prior to the pandemic, turnover in the field was already as high as…” Continued

In the News

Funders Seek to Jumpstart Early Ed with a Focus on Educators

September 1, 2021

“To improve early childhood education in the U.S., there’s a lot that needs to be done—including developing a reliable stream of skilled early educators. This is a key component…” Continued

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