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ALLOCATING PUBLIC REVENUES SOCIAL AND HUMAN SERVICES • The project designers initially planned to make the salary supplement available on a monthly basis. However, CCSA decided to trim administrative costs by making one lump–sum payment every six months. WAGE$ participants have responded well to the lump– sum payment and report that this approach is helpful in saving money to buy a car or invest in a house. • One advantage of the WAGE$ Project is that it does not affect the budget of the child care programs, nor does it require parents to contribute more. WAGE$ was structured so it would not interfere with marketplace competition for better salaries. • There is wide variation in the salary supplements provided in each county. Some counties have a large percentage of teachers with higher degrees, and other counties have very small percentages. To date, no analysis has been conducted to better understand these patterns. • WAGE$ is linked with Smart Start, which is a largescale early childhood initiative in North Carolina, profiled on page 151. When the governor saw the impact of WAGE$ on staff turnover, and realized that large number of the participants were taking advantage of T.E.A.C.H. to advance their education still further, his administration worked with Child Care Services Association to develop an incentive for local Smart Start coalitions to direct investment into WAGE$. This has resulted in the number of counties participating in WAGE$ growing from 18 to 56 in six months. CONTACT Sue Russell, Director Allison Miller, Project Director Child Care Services Association P.O. Box 901 Chapel Hill NC 27514 Phone (919) 967 3272 Fax (919) 967 7683 E–mail suer@ipass.net OTHER SITES WITH SIMILAR STRATEGIES King County, Washington, has approved an ordinance to augment child care employee wages in the City of Seattle, and is considered likely to allocate $300,000 for this purpose. Illinois recently enacted a wage supplementation bill called “Great Start” and allocated $3 million of its federal Child Care and Development Fund for the initiative. For information, contact Elissa Bassler at the Day Care Action Council (773) 769–8020 or elissa@daycareaction.org. Salary enhancement legislation passed in New York in 2000 and was funded at $40 million. For more information, contact Agnes Zellin at the New York State Child Care Coordinating Council at (518) 463 8663 or e–mail: agnes@nyscccc.org. San Francisco recently established the San Francisco CARES initiative. (See the profile on page107.) Nassau County, New York, has operated a salary enhancement grants program for approximately 19 years. Washington State sponsors the Child Care Career and Wage Ladder. (See the profile on page 68.) 67
CHILD CARE CAREER AND WAGE LADDER (WASHINGTON) DESCRIPTION The Washington State Child Care Career and Wage Ladder is a pilot project to support wage increments (based on education and experience) for early childhood teachers in100 child care centers across Washington State. Participating centers are required to comply with quality guidelines and to finance wage increases based on longevity and increased responsibilities. WHEN ESTABLISHED In July 1999, Governor Gary Locke (D) allocated $4 million for the initiative for fiscal years 2000 and 2001. In April 2000, child care centers were selected to participate in the demonstration project. ANNUAL AMOUNT A total of $4 million of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) reinvestment funds was allocated for the two–year demonstration project. Estimated costs for a statewide initiative are $15 million a year. SERVICES FUNDED The initiative will fund wage increments for staff in early childhood programs, including assistants, associate and lead teachers and program supervisors, based on relevant education. Centers will be required to use these funds to increase staff wages by 50 cents an hour for various types of educational attainment, starting with a high school degree and moving up through a Child Development Associate Credential, Early Childhood Education Certification, and A.A., B.A., and M.A. degrees in child development. In addition, participating centers are required to use their own revenues to raise wages 25 cents an hour, based on experience. State funds will assist with these wages increases, based upon the percentage of subsidized, low–income children being served by the facility. HOW FUNDS DISTRIBUTED State funds are awarded to selected child care centers, both nonprofit and proprietary, based on a Request for Proposals (RFP). POPULATION SERVED The initiative targets staff in participating licensed or certified centers. The centers are required to: • Adopt the career–development wage scale; • Fill 10 percent of their slots with children that receive child care subsidies from the state; and • Contribute $25 a month toward any health care premium paid by employees. STRATEGIC CONSIDERATIONS • The Economic Opportunity Institute (EOI), a nonprofit public policy institute, did the initial policy development for the project and educated the relevant officials. The proposal received strong support from Governor Locke and House Speaker Frank Chopp (D). • Governor Locke charged the Department of Social and Health Services, Office of Child Care Policy (OCCP), with developing and implementing the initiative based on preliminary work done by EOI. • Provider stakeholder groups were established across the state. These groups helped to review and revise the initiative to ensure that it was feasible from a provider perspective. To ensure participation by a diverse group of child care centers, OCCP attempted to make the wage ladder as flexible as possible while maintaining the intent of the initiative. • Prior to developing this initiative, child care workers organized into a union and established an independent voice. This was a key factor in securing state funds targeted to wages. EOI worked closely with the Child Care Union Project (sponsored by District 925 of the Service Employees and Seattle Worthy Wages). • The Seattle City Council approved additional funding for T.E.A.C.H. The council determined that expanding T.E.A.C.H. would help more staff to “climb the wage ladder” and therefore be eligible for higher wages. • Compensation approaches to date have focused on two models: awarding compensation supplements 1) to programs or 2) to staff directly. These approaches have strengths and weakness. Deciding which model to adopt will depend on a variety of factors, including attitudes about accountability, organized labor, perspectives of for–profit and nonprofit programs and status of career–development efforts. OTHER SITES WITH SIMILAR STRATEGIES King County, Washington, has approved an ordinance to augment child care employee wages in the City of Seattle, and is considered likely to allocate $300,000 for this purpose. Illinois recently enacted a wage supplementation bill called “Great Start” and allocated $3 million of its federal Child Care and Development Fund for the initiative. For information, contact Elissa Bassler at the Day Care Action Council (773) 769 8020 or elissa@daycareaction.org. Salary enhancement legislation passed in New York in 2000 and was funded at $40 million. For more information, contact Agnes Zellin at the New York State Child Care Coordinating Council at (513) 463 8663 or e–mail: agnes@nyscccc.org. 68
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