Who should pay for preschool?

by | Mar 25, 2016

Cincinnati Post Education will be a major issue on the ballot this November, with Cincinnati Preschool Promise and Cincinnati Public Schools both going for new money. The two could join forces on one levy, or they could run side-by-side. CPS will ask for a property...

Early-Ed. Measures Percolate at State, Local Levels

by | Mar 22, 2016

Education Week Philadelphia’s proposal to expand prekindergarten is just one of several ideas percolating among city and state leaders around the country during this legislative year. According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, about 450 bills...

Big Plans for Toddlers in San Antonio

by | Mar 19, 2016

The Atlantic After zeroing in on pre-k education, the city devised a way to pay for it. It had a one-eighth-cent allotment left in its sales tax, which would need to be voted on by residents, not merely taken up in the city council. The fraction of a penny would add...

An Economist’s Case for Pre-K

by | Mar 19, 2016

The Atlantic When city government leaders in San Antonio decided to fund a prekindergarten program using sales tax revenues, they made a case that doing so was an economic imperative as a growing city, that investing in the future workforce was about the city’s future...