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Preschool Promise Conflict
C ontinued from f ront
of both students and staff in Or-
egon, with around 56 percent
of the children being black and
approximately 42 percent identi-
fying as Latino. In terms of the
demographics of teachers, Hern-
don says the staff’s ethnicities
approximate the children.
Part of what upsets Ladd and
Herndon, who have been work-
ing together in exposing the pos-
sible aftermath of the Promise
legislation, is that there isn’t any
existing proof that a Bachelor’s
Degree has any affect on the va-
lidity of a preschool educator.
“People continue to build
upon this myth that this will
professionalize the occupation
of a preschool teacher and per-
haps it looks good to someone
who doesn’t know, but I’ve seen
people come into the program
with BAs and children run them
out of the room,” says Herndon.
“For terms of what you get for
what you invest, it’s not a good
investment.”
That’s not to say Herndon or
Ladd feel a higher educational
degree is a total waste, but in
terms of a BA being a necessi-
ty to properly handle children, it
means little.
Ladd received her BA in Ele-
mentary Education from Boston
College and a Masters in Educa-
tion Policy from Harvard Uni-
versity, so “for her to say that a
BA doesn’t give you any better
experience in education, that’s
saying something” according to
Herndon.
Head Start has a Center Train-
ing Assistant (CTA) Program
which integrates interested par-
ents into a career in early child-
hood development by offering
paid training and classroom in-
struction as well as a substitute
position once training is com-
plete. Since 2010 alone, 70 par-
ents have been hired on as edu-
cators with CTA.
Another important factor to
consider is the financial barrier
preschool educators face return-
ing to college.
Sandy Stevens, who instructs
parents in the Head Start CTA
Program at Mt. Hood Community
College, sees this as a major con-
cern along with the high turnover
rate that comes when preschool
teachers with degrees are hired
away by competing forces.
“We cannot compete with the
salaries of a school district,” says
Stevens. “I’ve been with Head
Start since 1985. It’s a good pro-
gram. I’ve earned my BA and
my Masters over time and people
wonder why I choose to stay. I like
the work that I do for this commu-
nity and I don’t want to leave it.”
Per Oregon’s Quality Rating
and Improvement System (QRIS)
standards, the higher the degree
of the instructor, the higher star
rating the facility or program re-
ceives and this puts additional
pressure against the experienced
preschool teacher who lacks the
advanced degree.
Further, a higher star rating gets
a facility or program more fund-
ing, which again proves a problem
for retaining proven and existing
early development educators.
“It neglects the needs of com-
munities of color,” Stevens says.
“We’ve got staff members that
speak nearly 30 languages at Head
Start, yet we don’t get a high star
rating. I just don’t see it as being
very fair.”
Since the legislation is still fair-
ly green, the repercussions have
yet to be completely evident. To
Herndon, whatever complications
arise will only burden an already
lagging educational system.
“Education is about 30 years
behind. They’re not concerned
about our outcomes; they’re con-
cerned about our pedigrees. That’s
why we’re so behind compared to
rest of the world,” says Herndon.
“We would not have Apple
or Dell computers, Microsoft or
Facebook -- none of them were
started out of a BA degree, those
were started out of practical train-
ing and personal experience. If it’s
okay for high tech, why would
we not dumb down our expecta-
tions for teacher performances to
be consistent with a myth about
teacher preparation?” Herndon
says.
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