proposals all include about $300 million in new resources for child care. While they may not meet the legislative commission's more ambitious $1.5 billion funding goal, the proposals are significantly higher than traditional state funding increases, which barely kept pace with inflation.Meanwhile, some child care providers and preschools have seized a pandemic-era opportunity to make change before the Legislature acts.
"It’s happening because we don't pay [teachers] enough," Malloy admitted."We can keep Scotch-taping this together for a while, but we're really going to risk the quality of our programming." And so far, she said, it has worked. Those employees she really values — many of them young women — are sticking around."There were people that just said, 'Wow, this actually makes it feel like [this] can be a career,'"said Malloy.
But even with those advantages, Malloy said the school can only sustain the experiment for a few years. She called it a “leap of faith” for now — because she's hoping the state or the federal government will come through to catch Newtowne before the money runs out.
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