New York City's Salary Parody Programs Are Not Comparable

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New York City's universal prequet programme basically professionalized the field. It required pre school teachers to have a lead teacher with at least a bachelor's degree. Maria thinks that's a good thing, you want highly qual people teaching your kids. But she said the city didn't consider what this meant for teachers with experience but no license or degree. The city has marginalized truly qualified early childhood professionals.

President Biden wants to give Americans four more years of free school: two years of pre-K and two of community college. In a two-part series, Today, Explained’s Haleema Shah explores the challenges of expanding public education.

Today’s show was reported by Haleema Shah, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Efim Shapiro, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.

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