How State-Funded Pre-K Stacks Up

The quality of state-funded pre-school programs has improved, with Alabama and Rhode Island leading the way. Measures of quality include smaller class sizes, well trained teachers and medical services like hearing and vision. Many of these programs only reach a fraction of a state’s 3- and 4-year-olds.

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Idaho, Montana, New Hampshire, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah and Wyoming have no state pre-school program.

Source: National Institute for Early Education Research

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