The Day Care Council of New York in the Media

The Day care Council of New York’s Executive Director Andrea Anthony was featured on The Adams Report to discuss the cost of salary parity for certified early education teachers in community-based organizations. Listen to the interview here:

Press Conferences

The Day Care Council of New York’s (DCCNY) Senior Policy Analyst Lisa Caswell spoke at a City Hall press conference about the historic labor agreement between DCCNY and DC 1707, which gives unionized certified early childhood educators a pathway to salary parity with their public school counterparts. Read the press release which outlines the details of the agreement.

The Day Care Council of New York’s Labor Counsel Nilesh Patel discusses the historic salary parity agreement with Errol Louis on NY1’s Inside City Hall. Watch the entire video clip here.

The Day Care Council of New York in News Articles

The following media reports and articles highlight the Day Care Council of New York’s involvement in the early childhood education landscape, as well as provides an overview of the critical issues related to child care that has been covered in the media.

• Press Release – Legislature, State of New York, Albany – Lawmakers, advocates, and child care providers call on Governor Cuomo to extend child care waivers– August 2, 2021
• The New School Center for New York City Affairs: “The Path to Salary Parity in Early Childhood Education” by Mai Miksic, Senior Research Analyst – May 8, 2019
• Chalkbeat: As New York City pre-K teachers weigh a strike, new estimate puts cost of pay boost at $438 million – April 5, 2019
• New York Early Childhood Development Institute: “Stabilizing New York City’s Child Care Services” by Nilesh Patel, Director, DCCNY Labor Relations and Mediation Services – September 30, 2016
• New York Daily News: “City Day Care Providers Approve $145 Deal to Hike Salaries for 2,700 Staffers” – September 28, 2016
• DNAInfo: “City-Funded Preschool Workers Approve New Contract” – September 28, 2016
• Crains: “City Day Care Workers Ratify Contract, Will switch to MetroPlus Health Plan” – September 28, 2016
• DNAinfo New York: De Blasio’s $15 Wage for Pre-K Staff Doesn’t Level Playing Field: Critics –January 7, 2016
• Politico New York: Advocates push on pre-K pay, with nod to de Blasio’s minimum wage move – January 6, 2016
• WNYC: Day Care Centers Claim They’re Losing Teachers to Better Funded Pre-K – January 6, 2016
• NY Times Opinion-Editorial: “Affordable Child Care: The Secret to a Better Economy” – August 2016:  “After all, affordable high-quality child care is one remedy to the long stagnation in wages afflicting most of the work force. It is also an antidote to the waning productivity that threatens future living standards.”  THIS ARTICLE, written by the New York Times editorial board lays out an old argument in a way that may be prove to be very useful as we reach out to New York business leaders.
• The Century Foundation – June 2016: A well-compensated, appropriately educated, diverse, and culturally competent workforce is essential to providing the high-quality early care and education (ECE) programs our kids need to thrive. A new report, “QUALITY JOBS, QUALITY CHILD CARE,” tells us how to achieve this high-quality care while maintaining fair compensation and diversity within the industry.
• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services – June 2016: The report “High-Quality Early Learning Settings Depend on a High-Quality Workforce” documents that despite the importance of high quality settings to healthy child development and school readiness, many early learning workers earn low wages — even when they obtain credentials and attain higher levels of education. Low wages and lack of wage parity across early learning settings undermines the quality of early learning programs.
• Economic Policy Institute – June 2016: The new report, “NEW YORK STATE LEADS NATION IN INCOME INEQUALITY,” provides extensive data on income inequality, including the average incomes of the top 1 percent, the income required to be in the top 1 percent, and the gap between the top 1 percent and the bottom 99 percent in every county and state as well as in 916 metropolitan areas. The authors found that, between 2009 and 2013, the top 1 percent captured 85 percent of total income growth in the United States, while the top 1 percent garnered 31 percent of all the income in New York State in 2013.