In “Attracting, Supporting and Retaining a Qualified Workforce,”(below) the Summer 2010 edition of the Pathways . . . to Early Childhood Higher Education issue brief series to explore career pathways and the connection to higher education, the Wisconsin Council on Children and Families (WCCF) and the Wisconsin Early Childhood Association (WECA) looks at the both the challenges facing child care workers (including low compensation, lack of professional development support, and high turnover) and the difficulty to maintain a qualified early childhood workforce.
The Brief also articulates strategies to attract and retain high quality early childhood educators and offers six policy implications and possibilities for Wisconsin.
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