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Hanna Melnick; Emma García – Learning Policy Institute, 2024
California recently committed to making prekindergarten (PreK) universal through the expansion of transitional kindergarten (TK) and other state-funded programs. Between 2021-22 and 2023-24, TK enrollment doubled, from about 75,000 to over 151,000 children. Approximately 59% of eligible 4-year-olds enrolled in TK in 2023-24. Across publicly funded…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Low Income Students, Federal Programs, Social Services
Cohen-Vogel, Lora; Sadler, James; Little, Michael H.; Merrill, Becca; Curran, F. Chris – Educational Policy, 2022
Over the past few decades, we have witnessed a surge in publicly funded pre-K programs in the United States. Today, policy makers in 45 states and the District of Columbia have adopted them. Combining information from twelve datasets, we use event history analysis (EHA) to examine the influence of a set of predictors on states' decisions to adopt…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Educational Policy, Public Education, Educational Finance
Head Start's Interaction with Federal, State, and Local Systems. Research Brief. OPRE Report 2022-12
Bernstein, Sara; Reid, Natalie; Harrington, Jeffrey; Malone, Lizabeth – Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, 2022
Head Start is an essential part of the programs and funding streams that provide early care and education (ECE) services to young children in the U.S. Head Start focuses on supporting children and families with low incomes, but also contributes to the broader effort to expand access to high quality ECE for all young children. Programs and…
Descriptors: Low Income Students, Social Services, Federal Programs, Early Childhood Education

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