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Early-Childhood Program Needs $83M to Close Teacher Salary Gap, Say Advocates

By CRYSTAL LEWIS
Posted 5/13/19

The Day Care Council of New York, which represents more than 200 publicly-funded day-care centers, has estimated it would cost $83 million to address the wage disparity between the early childhood educators who work in those centers and those employed by the Department of Education, according to a report set to be released this week.

Efforts to end the decades-long wage gap have ramped up, with District Council 1707, which represents about 8,000 early-childhood educators, calling off a strike that was set for May 2 after the city agreed to meet with the union.

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