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Why Target ECE Workforce?

Why Target ECE Workforce?. General economic returns/benefits To workers/multiplier effect To society/better child outcomes Political, economic potential Increased public, business, union support Economic recovery – window of opportunity Fix Market failures Inability to pay

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Why Target ECE Workforce?

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  1. Why Target ECE Workforce? • General economic returns/benefits • To workers/multiplier effect • To society/better child outcomes • Political, economic potential • Increased public, business, union support • Economic recovery – window of opportunity • Fix Market failures • Inability to pay • Lack of information

  2. Getting from Here to There • Current workforce: • Low education levels • Very low compensation • Little or no career ladder • Keys to enhancement: • Route to higher education • Better compensation • Career ladder

  3. ECE Worker Qualifications Declining

  4. In mid-80s, Younger Teachers were More Often College-Educated than Older Teachers -- Like the Workforce as a Whole

  5. Many College-Educated ECE Teachers and Administrators Near Retirement

  6. Many College-Educated ECE Teachers and Administrators Near Retirement

  7. Many College-Educated ECE Teachers and Administrators Near Retirement

  8. Today, Younger Teachers Are Less Often College-Educated than Older Teachers -- Unlike the Workforce as a Whole

  9. Education Lowest for Home-Based ECE

  10. ECE Workers Also Paid Less

  11. Proposal and Cost • Enhance qualifications, skills, pay @ each level of 1.85 million ECE workers: • Below HS  HS  CDA: (~50%) • CDA  AA ? BA/ECE PD (~30 – 50%) • Cost: • Lowest-paid in field, lift from $8-$12 to $13-$17 • Mid-level ECE workers, those entering the field, add PD, $5/hr, ladder • TOTAL: $18.5 billion - $23 billion (with benefits)

  12. Policy Strategies • New funding:tax incentives/legislation linking quality to reimbursement/salary • Reallocated dollars • Race to the Top ECE • Reinvest prison savings • Workforce Development Initiatives • Social Investment Bonds

  13. Tying funding to quality • Through tax credits: individual/ teacher, reimbursement to ECE center , business, parents (LA) • Through scholarships: T.E.A.C.H. • Through legislation (PA STARS)

  14. Reallocation Policy I: RTT • Race to the Top offering new ECE grants • Target program quality • Focus on systems-building, collaboration • Sustainability key • Opportunities for job creation/growth • Using RTT $ to tie quality to compensation • Using RTT $ to enhance worker skills

  15. Reallocation Policy II: Corrections • Logical connection: At-risk children drive many corrections costs, quality ECE helps • Financial and political opportunities: • Huge prison budgets w/ little/no safety benefit • ECE relatively small budget, so small % of set-aside can fund thousands of children • Same fiscal conservatives that support prison cuts can back ECE funding

  16. Reallocation III: Workforce Initiatives • Federal/state grants for partnerships—training tied to ECE career ladders • Preference for funding to proposals that • increase compensation with training/step up • have a funding sustainability plan • Strengthen business/labor engagement • Use some $ to move unregulated home-based providers onto first rung of ladder

  17. Reallocation IV: SIBs • In use in other countries, policy contexts • ECE presents opportunities, challenges • Evidence of future payoff • Prevention  major cost savings • Business, philanthropists taking interest BUT • Estimating short-term savings difficult • Different savings by risk group, cohort, family and community factors – how to incorporate?

  18. Contact information Elaine Weiss eweiss@epi.org (202) 331-5537 Steve Herzenberg herzenberg@keystoneresearch.org (717) 255-7145

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