Research Report

Initiating an Employee Childcare Program

An innovative strategy for teacher recruitment and retention

Topic

K-12 Education

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As childcare options grow increasingly expensive and scarce throughout the U.S., school districts are losing teachers who stay at home with their young children due to a lack of affordable childcare options. In response, some districts have begun providing district-run childcare services for their employees’ children. All profiled districts report their employee childcare centers have improved teacher recruitment and retention efforts.

This brief describes how profiled districts took their employee childcare programs from an idea to fully operational. The report includes implementation challenges, effective solutions, and future innovations for employee childcare programs.

Childcare shortage disproportionately impacts the education industry

2x

Mothers across all economic sectors were twice as likely to report that their ability to work was impacted by childcare compared to fathers.

54%

Within the health care and education sectors, women were 54% more likely to report childcare responsibilities impacted their ability to work.

11%

of workers in the health care and education industries reported their ability to work was impacted by childcare responsibilities, nearly twice the average found across all industries.

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