After the policy changes, distance to any pre-k did not change substantially for most student groups, while White and highest-income students lived farther from pre-k¶

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Subclaims¶

q3 i? Contrary to expectations, access to any pre-k changed little post-policy for high-priority groups; the only meaningful changes were White and highest-income students living statistically significantly farther from a CPS school with pre-k. → Ehrlich 2020

Evidence¶

Ehrlich 2020¶

Ehrlich, S.B., Connors, M.C., Stein, A.G., Francis, J., Easton, J.Q., Kabourek, S.E., & Farrar, I.C. (2020). Closer to home: More equitable pre-k access and enrollment in Chicago. Chicago, IL: UChicago Consortium on School Research, NORC at the University of Chicago, and Start Early. https://consortium.uchicago.edu/publications/closer-to-home

q3 · i? · associational · r2

Descriptive pre-post comparison of distance to the closest school with any pre-k across student groups (Figures 8-9). Most groups, including Black students, were no more or less likely to live close to a school with pre-k after the shift; the number of any-pre-k classrooms near home increased only for students in mostly-Latinx neighborhoods and decreased slightly for other groups, possibly due to the 2013-14 closing of 49 elementary schools.

"White and highest-income students lived statistically significantly farther from a CPS school with pre-k in the three years after the policy shift (2013–14 through 2015–16) than in the three years before."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• Before Chicago's 2013-14 policy changes, students living farther from a school with pre-k were less likely to enroll in school-based pre-k — related
• After the policy changes, students lived on average 0.6 miles closer to a school with full-day pre-k, with the largest gains for high-priority groups — related
• Pre-policy, the negative distance-enrollment relationship was strongest for Black students — related
• Pre-policy, White students were far more likely to enroll in full-day pre-k than other racial/ethnic groups regardless of distance — related