NYC BOOSTS SALARIES FOR 1,500 NON-UNION PRE-K TEACHERS
Alice Mulligan got on the loudspeaker at her Brooklyn preschool Monday morning to make an unexpected announcement: her teachers would be getting significant raises.
“Everybody started screaming,” recounted the director of Our Saviour’s Lutheran Preschool preschool.
She added, “They so deserve it.”
Moments earlier, city leaders announced a $57 million agreement to boost pay for teachers in publicly funded but privately run preschool programs that aren’t unionized. That would raise salaries by October 2021 to about $69,000 for certified teachers with master’s degrees — the same amount first-year teachers in public schools earn.
