05/08/2012
Pre-K Funding Drops
Hard work, sacrifice, and focus will never show up in tests.
Lance Armstrong
"Funding for state pre-K programs has plummeted by more than $700 per child nationwide over the past decade," reports the National Institute of Early Education Research (NIEER) in its State of Preschool 2011 yearbook. The yearbook reported these findings:
- Per-student funding dropped by $145 in 2010-2011 alone, compared with the previous year.
- Overall funding for state pre-K programs, when adjusted for inflation, dipped for the second straight year, by $60 million nationally in 2010-2011.
- Some states are making progress, while others have taken steps backward. Maine, Kentucky, and Nebraska all raised per-child and total pre-K funding by more than 5 percent over the previous year. In addition, five states — Iowa, Maryland, Michigan, West Virginia, and Wisconsin — increased total funding by more than 5 percent from the previous year.
- Twenty-two states increased pre-K enrollment, ranging from small gains in California, Connecticut, Georgia, and Minnesota to 24 percent in Vermont.
- But Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oregon, and Pennsylvania cut total state pre-K spending by 10 percent or more from the previous year.
- Nine states cut pre-K enrollment, from 1 percent in Kentucky, Nebraska, and North Carolina, to 12 percent in New Mexico. Arizona entirely eliminated its program. Counting Arizona, 11 states do not offer pre-K: Hawaii, Idaho, Indiana, Mississippi, Montana, New Hampshire, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming.
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