; and (ii) take into account workforce recruitment challenges and the need for a diverse workforce; (B) create a pathway for members of the child care and early learning service workforce to build on their credentials; and (C) provide enough time (which shall be not less than 6 years after the date of that establishment) for staff to meet any educational requirements in the established requirements. (b) Pay (1) Competitive rates of compensation For the purpose of providing child care and early learning programs with a qualified and stable workforce, each prime sponsor shall ensure that employees (including employees of a delegate provider) at a child care and early learning center and family child care home providers, including teachers and other staff of family child care home providers, shall be paid under a pay scale that provides for rates of compensation that— (A) (i) except as provided in clause (ii), are comparable with the rates of compensation paid to employees of the corresponding local educational agency with similar training, seniority, and experience; or (ii) for a position not typically found at the corresponding local educational agency, are the rates specified in the pay scale for the military child care program