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11 Status and Well-Being of the Workforce
11 Status and Well-Being of the Workforce
Pages 461-482
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Despite advances in the science of child development and knowledge of the impact of care and education professionals on the development of young children, many of these professionals still are receiving low wages. The result is high turnover rates in the field and increased economic instability among staff.
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2012 mean annual salaryd: State-Funded All Other Center- Home-Based/ • indergarten teachers: $53,030 K Prekindergarten Head Start Based Programs Family Childcare (mean hourly wage approximately 2012 mean hourly 2012 mean hourly 2012 mean Median wage $30.83, based on 40 hours per wages: wages: hourly wages: for "childcare week for 10 months) • chool sponsored: S • ot school N • ll private, A workers": • lementary teachers: E $19.40e sponsored: $15.50 for-profit, and $9.38 per $56,130 (mean hourly wage • ot school N • eachers with T nonprofit, hour/$19,510 per approximately $32.63, based sponsored: $14.40 a bachelor's although some year (Bureau of on 40 hours per week for 10 • eachers with T degree: not school programs may Labor Statistics months)
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Comparable annual salary data for early child hood educators by public prekindergarten, Head Start, and childcare are not available from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. However, comparable data are available for the more inclusive categories of childcare worker ($21,230)
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opportunities, and the quality of school state. leadership are identified by teachers as Family childcare workers typically work factors influencing the quality of the work Working conditions vary by sector in their own home (Bureau of Labor environment (Tooley, 2013)
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• nion density in 2012: 48 percent of 1.9 U State-Funded All Other Center- Home-Based/Family million elementary and middle school Prekindergarten Head Start Based Programs Childcare teachers.c Union density: No current data No current data Fourteen states • wenty states exempt charter schools T 16.7 percent available available allow unions to from collective bargaining agreements; of 1.5 million represent home others allow some negotiation for preschool and based providers individual charter schools (Exstrom, kindergarten (Blank et al., 2010)
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In family childcare programs, however, it is less common for early childhood professionals to receive any paid benefits, as programs often are small and run by a single individual (Child Care Services Association, 2013)
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. Number and characteristics of early care and education teachers and caregivers: Initial findings, Table 17 and Appendix Table 11, p.
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Benefits of the WAGE$ program include financial stability, increased staff morale in the workplace, and decreased turnover rates. Additional supports that can help alleviate financial stress among early care and education professionals include paid time for training, breaks, and planning (Child Care Services Association, 2013)
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Professional learning systems need to be equipped to prepare care and education professionals to assume the roles that are needed. Policies on staffing of classrooms and centers determine the types of professional roles needed and the responsibilities of each role, as well as how many positions within those roles are needed in the system.
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Early childhood efforts are focused mainly on professionalizing the field and pointing a path toward more knowledge and skills, starting from a relatively low level. A recent scan of statewide "career lattices"1 found that 37 states have some form of documentation describing how an early childhood professional might acquire more training, education, and competencies to support career advancement (Missouri Coordinating Board for Early Childhood, 2014)
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Data show that the average turnover rate in childcare settings is more than four times higher than that in elementary schools. High turnover rates can lower the quality of childcare and education programs, as frequent staff changes can have negative effects on children's development -- particularly for infants and toddlers, whose attachments and relationships with educators are disrupted (Rhodes and Huston, 2012)
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are 28.1 percent for preschool for elementary school teachers are 22 teachers and 29.4 percent for childcare workers.c Employment is projected percent.a Employment of elementary school to grow by 17 percent for preschool teachers and 14 percent for childcare teachers is projected to grow by 12 percent workers from 2012 to 2022 (Bureau of Labor Statistics and U.S. Department from 2012 to 2022.b of Labor, 2014b,c)
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Estimates reflect decreases in job demand in an occupation, but not potential expansion (Bureau of Labor Statistics and U.S. Department of Labor, 2014a)
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. family issues; 22.4 percent retire; 25.1 percent identify dissatisfaction with Many teachers who leave their jobs remain in the occupation but move to administration or lack of support on the other early care and education sectors that pay higher salaries.c job; and 13.9 percent list other reasons.b A study in Massachusetts found that 25 percent of family childcare providers Compensation influences turnover, but intended to quit within the next 3 years, and another 25 percent intended to work environment plays a significant role quit within the next 9 years; another quarter expected to stay in their positions (Glazerman et al., 2013)
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. In a 2011 study of early childhood teachers in North Carolina, 81 percent of teachers identified higher pay as the most important motivator for their remaining in the field (Child Care Services Association, 2012)
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. At the same time that socioemotional well-being is so important for the quality of their professional practice, however, care and education professionals experience higher rates of stress than those in many other fields, and this is a primary reason why many people leave the field (Friedman-Krauss et al., 2013)
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Head Start employs nearly 200,000 staff, including teachers, managers, and home visitors, in stressful working conditions, primarily with children who exhibit poor self-regulation. This survey looked at the mental and physical health of 2,200 staff in 66 Head Start and Early Head Start programs.
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The professionals carry the brunt of the underfunding of the system and are trying to do their best without sufficient resources." See Appendix C for additional highlights from interviews. Conclusions About the Status and Well-Being of the Workforce The early care and education workforce is at risk financially, emotion ally, and physically, subject to a vicious cycle of inadequate resources, low qualification expectations, low education levels, and low wages that is difficult to break.
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Chapel Hill, NC: Child Care Services Association. Department for Professional Employees and AFL-CIO (American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations)
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2013. The physical and men tal health of Head Start staff: The Pennsylvania Head Start Staff Wellness Survey, 2012.
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2014. Worthy work, still unlivable wages: The early childhood workforce 25 years after the national child care staffing study.
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