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Download full textMontoya, Elena; Powell, Anna; Austin, Lea J. E.; Kim, Yoonjeon; Muruvi, Wanzi; Petig, Abby Copeman – Center for the Study of Child Care Employment, 2022
California is expanding transitional kindergarten (TK) to become a universal preschool program for all four-year-old children. Upwards of 300,000 children are expected to enroll in universal transitional kindergarten (UTK) by 2025, requiring thousands of additional lead teachers and classroom aides to meet lower student-to-teacher ratio…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Preschool Teachers, Teaching Experience, Early Childhood Education
McLean, Caitlin; Austin, Lea J. E.; Whitebook, Marcy; Olson, Krista L. – Center for the Study of Child Care Employment, 2021
The "Early Childhood Workforce Index" provides a state-by-state look at policies and conditions affecting the early care and education workforce. This biennial report has tracked state progress since 2016. This third, 2020 edition of the Index continues to track state policies in essential areas like workforce qualifications, work…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Labor Force, Educational Policy, State Policy
Schlieber, Marisa; Austin, Lea J. E.; López, Enrique Valencia – Center for the Study of Child Care Employment, 2020
This report examines the demographic, educational, and employment characteristics (including compensation and benefits) of staff employed in center-based ECE [early care and education] programs throughout Marin County. The findings bring attention to the low wages and economic insecurity of the ECE workforce, particularly against a backdrop of one…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, County Programs, Child Care Centers, Early Childhood Teachers
Whitebook, Marcy; McLean, Caitlin; Austin, Lea J. E.; Edwards, Bethany – Center for the Study of Child Care Employment, University of California at Berkeley, 2018
The 2016 inaugural edition of the biennial "Early Childhood Workforce Index" represented initial efforts to establish a baseline description of early childhood employment conditions and policies on a state-by-state basis in order to improve early childhood jobs. This 2018 edition, as well as future editions, will focus on tracking…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Labor Force, Educational Policy, Preschool Teachers
Whitebook, Marcy; McLean, Caitlin; Austin, Lea J. E. – Center for the Study of Child Care Employment, University of California at Berkeley, 2016
The State of the Early Childhood Workforce (SECW) Initiative is a groundbreaking multi-year project to shine a steady spotlight on the nation's early childhood workforce. The SECW Initiative is designed to challenge entrenched ideas and policies that maintain an inequitable and inadequate status quo for early educators and for the children and…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Preschool Teachers, Teaching Conditions, Geographic Location
