In agreeing to substantial increases in starting pay for certified Teachers at day-care centers run by community-based organizations to give them parity with those employed by the Department of Education, Mayor de Blasio put the city’s money where his mouth is.
He takes understandable pride in the expanded pre-kindergarten program that is one of his signature initiatives. And when District Council 1707, whose Local 205 represents those instructors, pushed hard to remedy the decades-old wage gap, the Mayor responded.
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