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Gaines, Edith; And Others – 1979
There is a growing need for preschool teachers. The enrollment of 3- and 4-year-olds in preschool has grown steadily and the number of young children with working mothers has also increased. Many parents would prefer to place their children in day care centers if they could find centers with staff trained in early childhood education. The number…
Descriptors: Day Care, Early Childhood Education, Minimum Wage Legislation, Personnel Needs
Download full textBurton, Alice; Whitebook, Marcy – 1998
Noting a growing consensus that inadequate compensation contributes to turnover among child care teachers and providers, and undermines the quality of services available to children through the state of California, this report presents compensation guidelines developed as a means for Title 5 child care centers and others in California to assess…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Compensation (Remuneration), Day Care, Early Childhood Education
Center for the Child Care Workforce, Washington, DC. – 2000
The Center for the Child Care Workforce (formerly the Child Care Employee Project), has provided leadership for a nationwide grassroots effort called the Worthy Wage Campaign, an activist initiative to increase public awareness and to press for a public investment of child care funds directly targeted to improving child care jobs. This handbook…
Descriptors: Advocacy, Change Strategies, Child Caregivers, Compensation (Remuneration)
Peer reviewedRoseman, Marilyn J. – Early Childhood Education Journal, 1999
Quality child care is related to the number of adequately prepared practitioners. Unfortunately, workers subsidize the cost of quality by working for substandard wages, few benefits, and little recognition. The need for adequate compensation is the most critical issue facing the profession, and the cost should be shared by all members of society.…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Compensation (Remuneration), Day Care, Day Care Centers
Pinn-Wainwright, Saundra – 1979
This 14th annual Child Welfare League (CWL) survey of salaries paid by child welfare and families and children's agencies to professional and administrative personnel provides the agencies with current information on salaries paid in various parts of the United States and Canada. A total of 213 questionnaires were sent out, and 190 responses were…
Descriptors: Administrators, Child Caregivers, Day Care, Professional Personnel
Miller, Marna Geyer; Mayfield, Jim – 1994
The Washington State Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS) subsidizes child care for about 30,000 children each month. In 1992, telephone interviews were conducted with 1,179 child care centers and 1,277 licensed family child care homes throughout the state. An estimated 140,000 children were in licensed care at that time. Three major…
Descriptors: Child Care Occupations, Child Caregivers, Children, Costs
