Alabama and New Jersey require and fund salary parity for non-LEA preschool teachers with LEA peers; New York City teachers achieved parity through unionizing¶

Claim · All claims
Evidence · 1 study (2 entries) · qualitative r2 · q2
Currency · newest study 2023 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q2 i? Alabama and New Jersey require state-funded preschool teachers in non-LEA settings to receive salaries commensurate with LEA peers and provide funding to meet this requirement. → Garver 2023 q2 i? New York City state-funded preschool teachers achieved salary parity with K–12 teachers through unionizing. → Garver 2023 (2)

Evidence¶

Garver 2023¶

Garver, K., Weisenfeld, G. G., Connors-Tadros, L., Hodges, K., Melnick, H., & Plasencia, S. (2023). State preschool in a mixed delivery system: Lessons from five states. Learning Policy Institute. https://doi.org/10.54300/387.446

q2 · i? · qualitative · r2

Policy analysis in the Program Quality section on teacher compensation. The report notes non-LEA teachers nationally earn less than LEA teachers, making recruitment difficult; the parity requirement is descriptive policy, no effect size printed.

"Alabama and New Jersey address this issue by requiring that state-funded preschool teachers in non-LEA settings receive salaries commensurate with their peers in LEA settings, and provide funding to meet this requirement."

Garver 2023 (2)¶

Garver, K., Weisenfeld, G. G., Connors-Tadros, L., Hodges, K., Melnick, H., & Plasencia, S. (2023). State preschool in a mixed delivery system: Lessons from five states. Learning Policy Institute. https://doi.org/10.54300/387.446

q2 · i? · qualitative · r2

A descriptive statement in the same compensation discussion, attributed to New York City's context; no statistics or tests are reported.

"State preschool teachers in New York City have achieved salary parity with K–12 teachers through unionizing."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• A Alabama coalition's provider-recruitment effort coincided with FCPK access rising from 7.9% to 21.4% of children in central Alabama between 2014 and 2018 — related
• Setting common quality standards for all preschool classes helps address disparities in program quality requirements across the mixed delivery system — related
• New Jersey's share of children served in non-LEA settings is declining as state preschool enrollment grows because newly expanding LEAs are not mandated to subcontract — related
• Most state-funded preschool programs use a mixed delivery system, with some states serving over half of children in non-LEA settings — related
• Large pay disparities persist between TK teachers and other publicly funded preschool teachers, and only San Francisco raised teacher qualifications and compensation at scale — related
• New Jersey's Abbott P-3 credential mandate, with scholarships, pay parity, and expanded higher education capacity, rapidly raised credentialed preschool teacher supply — related
• Low compensation and inconsistent qualification requirements undermine recruitment and retention of California's ECE workforce — related