Report: Overall pre-K spending grows, but few states make gains in quality, enrollment. See more national education news here
By Linda Jacobson • Education DIVE
For the first time, overall spending on public pre-K programs across 44 states, the District of Columbia and Guam tops $8 billion, and 16 states increased per-child funding last year.
But a sizable number of states — 18 — have used a soon-to-expire federal grant program to expand or improve those programs, and not all have plans for how they’ll sustain those efforts, according to the National Institute for Early Education Research’s (NIEER) annual State of Preschool“yearbook,” released Wednesday.
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