Child-Care Group, AFT Become Unified Policy Voice
The Center for the Child Care Workforce—a 24-year-old group that has worked to improve compensation and working conditions for providers of early-childhood education—is merging with the American Federation of Teachers Educational Foundation and will cease to exist as a separate entity, leaders of both organizations announced last week.
Marci Young, the deputy director of the CCW, called the change a "natural progression" for the Washington-based organization and said linking with the foundation, the nonprofit research arm of the nation's second-largest teachers' union, would give the group "the capacity to really influence public policy in a new way, with a unified voice."
For the 1.2 million-member AFT, which represents some 5,000 early-childhood teachers, the addition of the CCW reflects the union's growing...
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