On Wednesday, the Baker-Polito Administration “announced a 6 percent rate increase for all early education programs that provide care for low-income families, worth $28.6 million, which represents the largest rate hike for subsidized early education and care programs in 10 years.”
“We are pleased to work with the Legislature to provide these rate increases for providers who care and educate our youngest residents,” Governor Charlie Baker said. “It is vital for these programs to be able to train and retain experienced staff, and these rates increases will help them accomplish that important aspect of any high-quality child care program.”
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“We know this is the first step in a long-term vision for early educators, families, and the Commonwealth,” said Amy O’Leary, who directs the early education campaign for Strategies for Children, an advocacy group. “And we look forward to working with legislative leaders throughout the budget process and the legislative session to move this issue to the top of the legislative priority list.”
“Governor Baker boosts funding for early education,” The Boston Globe, March 30, 2017
Eye on Early Education is a blog of Strategies for Children, an organization that works to ensure that Massachusetts invests the resources needed for all children, from birth to age five, to access high-quality early education programs that prepare them for success in school and life. The blogger, 
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I hope I am not the lone wolf who cites the inaccurate assumption that a 6% increase in voucher reimbursement provides an automatic 6% pay raise to each early educator in MA.
Rather support “An Act relative to early education funding”. https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/S255
Email your support to Representative Alice Peisch, House Chair of the Joint Committee on Education where the bill S255 sits.
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