Center for the Study of Childcare Employment

This report was produced in collaboration with the National Institute for Early Education Research.

This brief is the first resource in a three-part series on pre-K teacher compensation parity, jointly undertaken by CSCCE and NIEER. The brief develops a framework for understanding pre-K teacher compensation parity in contrast to other forms of compensation improvement for pre-K teachers and provides a summary of the current landscape of state policies, detailed further in the companion piece Teacher Compensation Parity Policies and State-Funded Pre-K Programs.