Excellence and Equity of Care and Education for Children and Families (Part 2: Availability, Accessibility, and Affordability)

I have continued to read over the Center for Child Care Workforce site and learned a great deal of information. (http://www.ccw.org/) This past week I have looked into the Public Policy part of the site. I thought this would be a good idea for me since I am not a very political person and know pretty much next to nothing about politics. According to the website there are several ways to address the compensation issues in Early Childhood such as apprenticeships, health initiatives, mentoring programs, public/private partnerships, Scholarship Programs, Unionization, Wage Incentives, and Tiered Reimbursement Rates. An apprenticeship is a position that combines education and work to learn all aspects of the profession. Health initiatives are when the company pays for their employees full health care benefits. Mentoring programs are when professionals in child care  team  up with new workers and offer advice, skills and productive insight into the field. Public/private partnerships are when businesses form partnerships and contribute financially to the early childhood field. Scholarship Programs are given to early childhood professionals for higher education and training. Unionization, which is unusual in the early childhood field, is when a union is formed and workers have more of a say in their wages, work conditions and their rights and responsibilities as well as their employers. Wage Incentives are rewards to early childhood professionals and teachers based upon their years in the field and amount of education. 'Tiered Reimbursement Rates have been targeted by several states as a way to increase compensation for providers of subsidized child care services.' (http://www.ccw.org/). All of these approaches are ways to get individuals to work and stay in the Early Childhood filed.
From what I could find this site really only gives information on the Child Care workforce for professionals and a little bit of information on early childhood in regards to children.