Children Can't Wait: Make Quality Early Learning a Top Priority in the 2015 Enacted Budget

Autor/in	Holcomb, Betty
Institution	Center for Children's Initiatives (CCI); Alliance for Quality Education (AQE); Schuyler Center for Analysis and Advocacy (SCAA); Public Policy and Education Fund of New York (PPEF); Citizen Action of New York
Titel	Children Can't Wait: Make Quality Early Learning a Top Priority in the 2015 Enacted Budget
Quelle	(2015), (15 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Quantitative Daten; Early Childhood Education; Preschool Education; Early Intervention; Grants; State Aid; Low Income Groups; At Risk Students; Child Care; Budgets; Educational Quality; Access to Education; School Readiness; Enrollment; Kindergarten; Economic Factors; New York + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Early childhood; Education; Frühkindliche Bildung; Frühpädagogik; Pre-school education; Vorschulerziehung; Grant; Finanzielle Beihilfe; Kinderfürsorge; Kinderbetreuung; Finanzhaushalt; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Access; Bildung; Zugang; Bildungszugang; Readiness for school; School ability; Schulreife; Einschulung; Ökonomischer Faktor
Abstract	New York State (NYS) has long been a pioneer on early childhood education, with a brain trust of early education experts and dedicated practitioners in the field. Starting in 1997, under the leadership of the Assembly, NYS began its state funded prekindergarten program, funding half-day programs across the state. In 2007, half-day pre-K expanded significantly again when the state more than doubled its investment with the statewide settlement of the Campaign for Fiscal Equity. In 2013, the governor and the legislature followed the initial recommendations of the Education Reform Commission and launched a new Priority Pre-K program, which included state funding for full school day services. This competitive grant was just $25 million for the entire state, adding just 6,000 seats, most of them full day. Today, a whopping 61% of the state's four-year-olds promised a seat in full-day pre-K are still waiting for one, including 51,000 children in low income communities. A disturbing 78% of low-income children eligible for a child care subsidy do not get one. As the 2015 enacted budget negotiations begin, full-day pre-K programs are provided to only 38% of the eligible four-year-olds. New York State is far from reaching universal access as Governor Cuomo promised just a year ago. As the numbers show, NYC provides the largest number of full day seats, with the rest of the state trailing behind, meeting just 16% of the need (see chart), with only 5% of those added with the 2014-15 funding. [The Ready for College, Ready for Kindergarten Campaign is led by the Alliance for Quality Education, Citizen Action of New York, the Public Policy and Education Fund, the Center for Children's Initiatives and the Schuyler Center for Analysis and Advocacy.] (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01