Post by Logan on Feb 21, 2016 6:55:50 GMT -6
LOWELL — For $14.25 an hour, Kristin Hovey is entrusted with the budding young minds of 18 disadvantaged children whose government-sponsored preschool education aims to lift them out of poverty.
At that wage, she is nearly consigned to poverty herself. The single mother has to work extra jobs on nights and weekends to make ends meet.
“I do it because I love them and it’s important,” Hovey said. “It’s their foundation for all of school.”
While policy makers and educators promote the transformative power of early education, preschool teachers are still paid baby sitters’ wages — even though many of them have, at the state’s urging, continued their education and come to the job bearing bachelor’s degrees.
Read more: www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2016/02/20/state-raises-expectations-not-pay-for-early-educators/wc8ksylH9wF1p2xpzHgIDK/story.html
At that wage, she is nearly consigned to poverty herself. The single mother has to work extra jobs on nights and weekends to make ends meet.
“I do it because I love them and it’s important,” Hovey said. “It’s their foundation for all of school.”
While policy makers and educators promote the transformative power of early education, preschool teachers are still paid baby sitters’ wages — even though many of them have, at the state’s urging, continued their education and come to the job bearing bachelor’s degrees.
Read more: www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2016/02/20/state-raises-expectations-not-pay-for-early-educators/wc8ksylH9wF1p2xpzHgIDK/story.html