We are delighted to welcome Savitha Moorthy as CSCCE’s new Executive Director, who will start with the Center in early May. Savitha comes to CSCCE most recently from Tandem, Partners in Early Learning (based in California’s Bay Area), where she was the Executive Director. She brings over two decades of experience in early care and […]

As states continue to explore methods for supporting the workforce, salary scales can serve as a tool for advancing early educator compensation and addressing systemic workforce issues within ECE. States can use salary scales to support or plan for implementation of wage increases and to move towards competitive wages and stable increases for early educators.  […]

Because profit margins are so tight, child care programs—especially home-based or family child care—struggle to provide family-sustaining wages or employer-sponsored benefits like health care.  Lack of access to benefits in combination with low wages means that nearly one half (43 percent) of early educator families rely on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNA...