Only about half of eligible children attend NC Pre-K, leaving almost 33,000 eligible children per year unserved¶
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q2 i? Funding restrictions limit NC Pre-K access so that only about 50% of eligible children attend, leaving almost 33,000 eligible children per year unserved. → WestEd 2019
Evidence¶
WestEd 2019¶
WestEd, Learning Policy Institute, & Friday Institute for Educational Innovation at North Carolina State University. (2019). Sound Basic Education for All: An Action Plan for North Carolina. San Francisco, CA: WestEd. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED606141
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The report's review of early childhood programs (Head Start, Smart Start, NC Pre-K, child care subsidies, and disability services) states that funding restricts access so "only about 50% of eligible children are able to attend NC Pre-K". The unserved count is cited to Barnett (2019); no effect size is printed.
"funding for these programs has restricted access so that only about 50% of eligible children are able to attend NC Pre-K, leaving almost 33,000 eligible children per year unserved (Barnett, 2019)."
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Related Claims¶
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Only about half of eligible children attend NC Pre-K, leaving almost 33,000 eligible children per year unserved |
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Only about half of eligible children attend NC Pre-K, leaving almost 33,000 eligible children per year unserved |
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2019 |
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2024 |
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