Heather Cleary, CEO of Peninsula Family Service and one of our high-quality teachers, have been featured in an article, Child care providers push California to boost pay for early education teachers, written by Zaidee Stavely of EdSource.
This article outlines the two different ways that California pays centers that serve low-income children with subsidized income. At Peninsula Family Service, we believe the funding is simply not enough to retain high-quality Early Learning teachers.
“Our teachers are having to make choices between rent and food and getting to work,” said Heather Cleary, CEO at Peninsula Family Service, which runs nine centers for low-income children in San Mateo County. “Some of our children come with a lot of trauma and for our teachers to also have their own trauma that they’re bringing to work makes it really challenging to provide a quality learning environment.”
To read the full article click here: https://edsource.org/2019/child-care-providers-push-california-to-boost-pay-for-early-education-teachers/616075
Please donate today and contribute to our teacher lift program, which helps our teachers in the classroom with curriculum training, a living wage, and social and emotional support to work with children that have experienced trauma: https://www.peninsulafamilyservice.org/donate/