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. The lowest paid staff member at her Nome site makes more than $27 an hour, but that’s not competitive with the region’s high wages. Urban centers usually pay somewhere in the range of $14 to $16 an hour, which urban operators say is only barely competitive with working at Target or for a fast-food chain.
Anne Shade, director of Head Start for Bristol Bay Native Corp., said the stability of the funding allows programs like hers to increase staff salaries. She oversees Head Start programs for a region the size of Ohio. When programs lose staff, they have to reduce the number of children they can serve, also known as the number of open “slots.” Programs have been giving up slots even though they have long wait lists.
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