April 2008
Will NYS Ever Expand Their Pre-K Program?
NY1 focused yesterday on the plight of one school that offers half-day prekindergarten classes for its neighborhood, but lacks the funding to expand the program into full time (all day) pre-K services. The article nicely touches on the major issue facing the pre-K programs in NYS – funding. While in 1997 the universal pre-K program [...]
More on Quality: Losing Kids is Not Acceptable
The other day I urged reporters to ask careful questions about the quality of a pre-kindergarten, and to go beyond simply repeating findings on a report. Last week, a story came up in Tulsa, Oklahoma that truly begged the quality question. The Tulsa Tribune reported that a pre-k site was shuttered after three pre-kindergarten kids [...]
