early childhood education

City Announces Deal on Early Education Salary Parity

Today, Mayor de Blasio, City Council Speaker Corey Johnson and leaders at DC37, DC 1707 and the Day Care Council announced a labor agreement for early educators. As you know, early childhood education has a transformative impact on children and familie …

As battle for higher pre-K wages continues, NYC pushes back deadline for contracts

CBO Centers are essential to educating NYC’s young children

Community-based organization (CBOs) programs provide services for most young children enrolled in the city-funded early childhood education system — particularly those with high economic need. Currently, there are 81,611 children under age 5 enrolled i …

Some NYC pre-K teachers paid up to 60% less than peers

Take Action in Support of CBO teachers

On April 25, Mayor de Blasio released his Executive Budget for FY 2020 and still neglected to address the wage gap between early childhood educators. Despite the important role that CBOs play in implementing UPK and 3-K and their long history of care f …

Nonprofits don’t like Mayor Bill de Blasio’s plans for early child education