State-Supported Prekindergarten Programs in SREB States: Growing in Hard Times

By David R. Denton

This report profiles state-funded prekindergarten programs in the SREB states and includes information on program characteristics, 2002-2003 enrollments and funding, and recent or anticipated changes in program operations. Numbers of 4-year-old children served by state pre-K programs and Head Start are compared with estimated numbers of 4-year-olds living in poverty to measure how states are doing in providing high-quality pre-K opportunities to at-risk children, as called for in the SREB Goals for Education. The report finds that 12 SREB states are serving at least as many at-risk children as there are children in poverty, and two other states are very close to meeting that goal.

Keywords: preschool, readiness, early childhood

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Goals that it reflects: All children are ready for the first grade.

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