Preschool Part of Education Funding Scramble
The 83rd Legislature started with good news from the state comptroller: Susan Combs told lawmakers they’d have more than $101 billion to spend in the next session. Education advocates are already asking for more dough to head to Texas classrooms, including preschools.
Kara Johnson, with Texans Care for Children, a child advocacy group, quotes a 2006 study from the Bush school at Texas A&M University that shows it’s smart budgeting to support early childhood education.
Audio: Ben Philpott's story for KUT News
“What the study found was that when you invest in high-quality care — the ...
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Arthur M. Thomas IV via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Sigh.. thats not their money.
Lori Trammell via Texas Tribune on Facebook
I want an accounting shown on how the school boards a superintendents doled out the $$$
Karen Spivey-Cummings via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Fund Texas education.
Robert Wyatt via Texas Tribune on Facebook
... now, about that infrastructure report. The good news is that we know where the money went....
V Marshall
For 35-40 years, the educational community said every study confirmed that by 3rd grade there was no measurable difference between kids who had gone to preschool and those that had not. The advice to parents was pay for preschool if you want, just don't expect it to give your child some sort of head start over their classmates. It is actually why most gifted and talented programs don't start until 2nd or 3rd grade because individual brain development is so varied for kids younger than age 7-8 so they don't start testine until then. But over the past decade evidently all those 35 years of earlier studies are in error and kids cannot possible be successful without preschool.
And now this "study" done in 2006 evidently suggests that only "high-quality" programs are helpful. Sorry for being a skeptic, but that sounds to me like a few business have banded together to sell an "essential" program to taxpayers.