Care providers say the money is going to salaries to retain teachers and keep centers open.
Only one of four Early Head Start classrooms is likely to be open in Nome next year because it is so difficult to retain qualified staff. It is only the latest reduction in the early childhood program that provides child care, early education and health and dental services to more than 3,000 children in families with low incomes.
That effort will be buoyed by an influx of state dollars to the Head Start program after years of stagnant baseline funding. “If we can’t get the staffing to operate our programs, if we can’t bring people in and pay them enough and make it so that it’s a livable wage for them, it’s just going to kind of collapse on itself,” she said.
“I think it’s a perfect little microcosm of some of the issues that I see in my own district,” he said. “What people are really asking for is stability.”
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