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Stak-s S-Oul pmvioviJ pDanitS {a 3o and 4-eV-olds education scholaship accoits,
which ca: d be uced to pa-y fot-< various private (inriuding faith-bsed) and public eaiy
hi'.. :uhod education PoVideS.
V kep pa-ents working, states 0h-ii'i aA - ate tax incentives for ea.y childhood pro-
g ftnrl.i.g thia.t coind.es with th i word
Sts C[ hodd r desskd w..'iher My an rvestig irquai, so [hey should t-ck st
dent Wio- -mes data.
SV/ith outcornes dat, states c-aid identif providers that are m-st quaiified to becore
sta te-app oved tecuher training sit-s
High-qualirv eary childhood education. makes a
difference: It incr.eases' acadenic attainient and
pro-social behavior, positriveiy affects healt]h and
allows more parents3 te reap the aetefits of wtork
Conservatives care about early education, but lib-
erals have made headway wita u-niversal public
pre-kindergarten (pr-K), an ezpensive proposi-
Lion that cxpands the government's footprint with
no g 'irantee i.:4quality.
Athough access4 to public preschool vas improv-
Ag at the turn of the century, t began to dedine
during the Great Recession and has not recovered
since. In addition to 1,7005 federal lead Start cen-
ters nationwide, 44 states and. W ashintgon, DC,
provide public6 preschool options, Yet across the
US, pulic prograras enroll oay 33 p3ercent'Of 4-yeas-
olds and 6 percent of 3--yar olds. The overwhelming
mEnapity of t.'ose programs do not provide Will-
day options that help working parents.
Increasingly, cities arc making pre-K a piorirm
Washirgton, DC,' has realized some success: As of
2o0.8, 75 percent of r3-ar- oi..ds and 8 p ercent of
4--yearolds were enrolled in DC s public and char.-
ter pnUblic preschool programs. -But that access
comes at a cost of $3it,5oo' per child. Publicly
provided progranis have also squeezed' private
preschools anid day cares in DC, meaning tewer,
more expeasive options for parents who want
them.
'bis heft), vEi[e tag is one seas, Eore sorrnuni
ties have rot scaled public preschool. San Antonio,
TexasW has a promising progran, but resident
support for increasing- ocal taxes for pre-K is ten-
uous. Boston, Massachusetts- and New Y'oriW
have larcly tacked pre-K programs onto K-i.z
systerns. New York has irnproved'S over tu-e, but
Bostonv5 struggles to provide seats fo. all students,
and questions about the quality of progran-ming
and reachter effectiveness persist. States and cities
can do better,
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