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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]AS a former director, this is the nightmare situation I figured we'd be in - how was this every sustainable? But..... you now have teachers who have been making quite a bit more $ for the last 2 years and that will be wiped away as of September 30 (fiscal year starts Oct 1). Centers will NOT be able to maintain those salaries. The teachers will go back to their salaries that they would have been getting if there was no pay equity fund. Centers CANNOT raise tuition enough to maintain those much higher salaries - and parents couldn't afford to pay that tuition! Yes, I think teachers will leave - of course going to Maryland schools won't work because their pay is just as low as DC's pay was - in some cases worse - and they never did a Pay Equity thing. And there is a reason I am no longer directing an early childhood program - having to hire so many teachers will be impossible. I just don't know how the directors are going to do this! Hiring during/after Covid was already much harder than before 2020, and it was hard before Covid, and MUCH HARDER now - after the pay equity goes away, it was be 300% harder. It's a disaster - but tell me how this wasn't going to happen? You can't NOT raise taxes, NOT decrease services other places, AND pay so much more $ to the childcare center teachers and have that be sustainable. It's just a disaster and it's going to end very badly for centers, teachers and then parents when centers don't have enough teachers to keep all the rooms open. [/quote] Exactly this. If they save it this year, it will be killed off in another year or two. It's simply too expensive and it's not sustainable. But it will create havoc for DC childcare. This is what happens when you implement very expensive policy experiments on a grand scale.[/quote]
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