Increasing Wages for Community-Based Teachers Becomes a Key Element of Boston’s Universal Pre-K Funding Formula

By maintaining and updating its cost model, Boston Public Schools ensures that its Universal Pre-K program keeps pace with changing operational costs. Meanwhile, a new funding formula ensures that teachers and related staff in community-based centers receive a living wage. The result is more equitable compensation for program staff and better services to children.

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July Marks Our Sixth Anniversary

We have been very busy since we turned five last year, so we extend thanks to our dedicated staff, our amazing funders and partners, and most of all YOU—the communities and states that collaborate with us! Your work to provide equitable, coordinated, and sustainable public funding for kids’ services will ensure that all children and youth thrive!

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“Communities need to work together, across sectors, to create coordinated systems of support and opportunity for all children and youth,” according to a new field study released by The EdRedesign Lab, a program of the Harvard Graduate School of Education. The study, The Role of the Public Sector in Cradle-to-Career Place-Based Partnerships, examines how cross-sector collaboration amplifies the impact of local government and nongovernmental organizations in serving children and youth. Check out the publication to read what our founder and CEO Elizabeth Gaines said about how communities can leverage these important partnerships.

Children’s Funding Project and StriveTogether are collaborating to provide six partnerships within the Cradle to Career Network with new opportunities for financial support and technical assistance. Through this collaboration, Children’s Funding Project will support the participating network members in hiring and training children’s funding coordinators to lead localized work to expand equitable opportunities for children and youth through strategic public financing. Look out for a blog from StriveToether about Children’s Funding Project and strategic public financing this fall!