Committee for Economic Development “Using Refundable Tax Credits to Improve Professional Development, Wages, and State QRIS”
This slide deck, a resource from the 2017 QRIS national meeting, features strategies from the Committee for Economic Development (CED) to use refundable tax credits to improve professional development, wages, and state QRIS. It features the experience of Louisiana in implementing the state’s school readiness tax credits.
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Taking the Long View on Compensation in Delaware
Blog March 30, 2023
In this blog, Madeleine Bayard, Senior Vice President at Rodel, details steps Delaware is taking to retain and recruit early child care workforce.
Compensating ECE Professionals in the Manner They Deserve: A PA Early Learning Center’s Quest
Blog February 7, 2023
In this blog, Damaris Alvarado-Rodriguez explains the strategies she uses to compensate ECE professionals in the manner they deserve.
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In this blog, Anna Mercer-Mclean details how she has utilized funding to increase salaries and benefits for her employees and her strategies to sustain providing ECE professionals their worth.