04/14/2014
The city will use state funds to raise the starting salaries of certified teachers with bachelor's degrees from around $35,000 to $45,000. Teaches with master's degrees will start at $55,000. Teachers at community-based organizations will earn nearly the same amount as starting teachers at district-run programs.
Universal prekindergarten is the largest education initiative of the de Blasio administration so far. By September, the city aims to more than double the number of existing full-day pre-K seats from 20,000 to 53,000.
City officials plan to offer 73,000 pre-K seats in time for the following school year, giving a seat to every city 4-year-old who needs one.
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The city will use state funds to raise the starting salaries of certified teachers with bachelor's degrees from around $35,000 to $45,000. Teaches with master's degrees will start at $55,000. Teachers at community-based organizations will earn nearly the same amount as starting teachers at district-run programs.
The city will spend $10 million this year to boost the salaries of prekindergarten teachers working at community-based organizations to attract and retain qualified instructors.
In a move city officials are calling the de Blasio administration’s boldest step to ensure the quality of its ambitious universal pre-K project, the city will raise the starting salaries of certified teachers with bachelor’s degrees from around $35,000 to $44,000.
Teachers with master’s degrees will start at $50,000.
The higher pay rates begin around September and mean teachers at community-based organizations — which handle about 60% of the city’s pre-K programs — will earn nearly the same amount as starting teachers at district-run programs.
“This is going to go a long way toward increasing the quality of pre-K in New York City, and making sure every classroom — be it in a public school or in a community-based organization — has a great teacher come September,” said Mayor de Blasio.
The salary increases will affect about 1,000 teachers and will be paid for with part of the $300 million in annual funding the state has set aside for pre-K in New York City, city officials said.
City officials plan to offer 73,000 pre-K seats in time for the following school year, giving a seat to every city 4-year-old who needs one.
Leaders of community-based organizations said the equal pay plan would help them attract higher quality teachers.
“We need teachers with expertise in early-childhood education,” said Melissa Fischetto, director of A to Z Center Too in Queens Village, who will need to hire three additional teachers under her plan to add about 60 new pre-K seats, which is currently awaiting city approval. “The higher salaries will help us attract a qualified staff.”
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