The number of pre-k classrooms near a student's home was positively related to enrollment, more strongly for full-day classrooms¶

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Evidence · 1 study · associational r? · q3
Currency · newest study 2020 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q3 i? Each additional full-day pre-k classroom within 0.5 miles of home was associated with a 0.7 percentage point increase in full-day enrollment likelihood, a stronger association than for any 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 · r?

Pre-policy multilevel logistic regression on CPS cohorts relating the count of (full-day) pre-k classrooms within a 0.5-mile radius of home to enrollment. The classroom-count association was smaller than the distance association for any pre-k (2.5 classrooms near home meant only 1 percentage point higher enrollment), but stronger for full-day pre-k at 0.7 percentage points per classroom.

"the relationship between the number of full-day pre-k classrooms within 0.5 miles of a student's home and enrollment in full-day is stronger, such that each additional full-day classroom near a student's home was associated with a 0.7 percentage point increased likelihood of enrollment"

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• 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, White students were far more likely to enroll in full-day pre-k than other racial/ethnic groups regardless of distance — related
• Pre-policy, the negative distance-enrollment relationship was strongest for Black students — related
• 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