Directors at City Funded Pre-K Programs Earn Less Money Than Their Teachers
(DNAINFO) Amy Zimmer — Directors of many city-funded preschool programs central to Mayor Bill de Blasio’s universal pre-K plans earn thousands less than teachers they oversee and haven’t seen a raise in a decade, DNAinfo New York has learned.
It has been a bitter pill to swallow for many bosses of the nearly 400 community-based centers across the city that provide pre-school for kids ages 2 – 5 through the city’s Early Learn program, a lifeline for thousands of low-income working families, who depend on these classes that run 10 hours a day, 12 months a year.
The starting salary for a director is $47,101 a year, which is $9,000 less than what some of their teachers can get after the mayor gave them a raise through his Pre-K For All program to provide pre-K seats for every 4-year-old in the city.