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Great Start Compensation Program Supports Minnesota’s Early Education Workforce
Minnesota’s Great Start Compensation Program has worked to improve wages and support for early care educators, especially after the COVID-19 pandemic. A new report from the Center for the Study of Child Care Employment, titled “Progress Through Persistence and Partnership: Minnesota’s Collaborative Effort to Advance Early Educator Compensation,” demonstrates how Minnesota moved from temporary relief…