Why Texas Needs to Invest More in Pre|K

To qualify for free pre-K, children must meet at least one of the following criteria. When it comes to income-based eligibility, families have ...

Increase Support for Public Pre-K in Texas | Baker Institute

Texas should invest in its public pre-K program to address pandemic ... In the past five years, pre-K in Texas public school districts have seen ...

High-Quality Pre-K in Texas Matters

Over the years, our state has seen a significant return on that investment. A recent analysis of eligible Texas students who participated in public Pre-K in ...

Researchers make the case for broader investments in high-quality ...

The National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER) ranked Texas No. 34 in per-child spending on public pre-K at $3,689 — below the ...

Investing in the future: Fully funding prekindergarten in Texas

The lack of full-day prekindergarten (pre-K) funding in Texas is not just an educational issue, it is a pressing concern that carries long-term consequences.

Texas Pre-K Serves the Highest Number of Children in the US, Yet ...

Most states have not committed to serving all children, and even ... Will states make the investments needed to ensure that programs ...

Pre-Kindergarten - Raise Your Hand Texas

Research shows that high-quality, full-day pre-K is an effective investment. Enrollment in pre-K is consistently tied to higher rates of kindergarten readiness, ...

The Research is Clear: High Quality Pre-K Pays Off

These returns1 on investment have attracted support for high quality pre-k among Federal Reserve ... Texas pre-k is already a good investment. According to ...

New Funding for Early Education - Texas Comptroller

Expanding Pre-K ... Each student qualifying for the Early Education Allotment generates additional funding equal to 10 percent of the basic allotment for ...

High Quality Pre-K Pays Off - Texans Care for Children

Research from Texas and across the U.S. shows that effective pre-k programs help students start kindergarten with the skills they need.

Texas leaders, advocates build momentum on pre-K, child care ...

“It's far more efficient to invest in the younger kids to prevent the achievement gap from ever growing than it is to spend money on remediation ...

Closing the Opportunity Gap: Texas Should Invest in High Quality

Most states meet this standard, while Texas has no cap on Pre-K class-sizes. Eighty-seven percent of states have staff-child ratios of 1:10 or better, but.

Early Childhood & Pre-K - Every Texan

Texas has long recognized the value of early education, and since 1985 has offered a state-supported Pre-K program. The goal of the program is to develop math, ...

Texas must invest more resources in early childhood development ...

Texas children aren't getting the early support they need to succeed in school, according to data compiled by the advocacy group Texans Care ...

For Texas to meet its future education goals, we must invest in pre-K ...

The fact is college readiness begins with kindergarten readiness. Students who are not reading on grade level by third grade are four times more ...

Texas, Invest in Our Future - Pre-K Funding - Reform Austin

Children who attended pre-K programs have a higher rate of graduating from high school, thereby accessing higher skilled and higher paying jobs.

Pre-K is worth the investment in Texas [Opinion] - Houston Chronicle

This legislative session, like many before it, includes a debate over the state's investment in early childhood education and pre-kindergarten.

Commentary: Trust the Data, Pre-K is Good for Texas Kids

Add these findings to the growing body of evidence showing that children who attend pre-K have better math and reading test scores, are less ...

Investing in our youngest learners... - Raise Your Hand Texas ...

Investing in our youngest learners is crucial Visit go.ryht.org/invest ... pre-k, the funding gap in Texas, and more! ... Our Texas government needs to release ...

Texas pre-K is critical to the state's success and future - TribTalk

Ask any businessperson if he or she would like to receive a proven return on an investment and the answer is likely to be “Yes!” A large part of ...