Pre-K Now National Reports

"Meaningful Investments in Pre-K: Estimating the Per-Child Costs of Quality Programs"
May 2008
This brief, written jointly with IWPR, examines the costs associated with quality in pre-kindergarten programs.
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"Leadership Matters: Governors' Pre-K Proposals Fiscal Year 2009"
April 2008
While budget proposals for FY09 amount to an increase of $261 million in pre-k spending, for the first time in 4 years, the number of governors recommending increases in pre-k funding declined. Find out whether your governor was a pre-k budget leader or loser in our annual report on governors' pre-k budget proposals.
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"Funding the Future: States' Approaches to Pre-K Finance" (2008 Update)
February 2008
This report, updated just in time to meet 2008's tough fiscal constraints, highlights strategies and sources that states – and some cities – are tapping in order to expand and supplement current pre-k funding.
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"Common Vision, Different Paths: Five States' Journeys toward Comprehensive Prenatal-to-Five Systems"
December 2007
This report, written jointly with ZERO TO THREE, provides real-life examples of challenges encountered by five states currently working to build high-quality, comprehensive early childhood systems and the strategies they used to overcome them.
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"Votes Count: Legislative Action on Pre-K Fiscal Year 2008"
September 2007
Pre-k momentum reached an all-time high in 2007. Thirty-six states increased pre-k funding by a total of $528 million, and nearly half of increasing states did so by cooperating across party lines.
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"Pre-K for Military Families: Honoring Service, Educating Children"
July 2007
This report recommends that state policymakers help the children of our nation's military personnel meet the unique social, emotional, and education challenges of the military lifestyle by providing them with high-quality pre-k.
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"Dollars and Sense: A Review of Economic Analyses of Pre-K"
May 2007
This review of 10 studies on the economic impact of pre-k shows why a growing number of business leaders and economists are increasingly convinced that high-quality pre-k is a sound investment.
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"Leadership Matters: Governors' Pre-K Proposals Fiscal Year 2008"
April 2007
Every year, more governors prioritize high-quality, voluntary pre-kindergarten politically and fiscally and do so more assertively. Find out whether your governor is part of the trend in our annual report on governors' pre-k budget proposals.
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"Better Outcomes for All: Promoting Partnerships between Head Start
and State Pre-K"
January 2007
How can Head Start and state pre-kindergarten programs work together to better serve young children and their families? This report examines the answers, drawing on research and in-depth interviews with state pre-k program directors, Head Start collaboration coordinators, and providers of both Head Start and state pre-k programs.
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"Votes Count: Legislative Action on Pre-K - Fiscal Year 2007"
October 2006
Learn how a record-setting 31 state legislatures committed to increased funding for pre-k in FY07 while not one legislature voted to decrease pre-k funding.
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"Pre-K and Latinos: The Foundation for America's Future"
July 2006
This report shows that, by providing Latino children with culturally and linguistically appropriate services in high-quality, pre-k-for-all programs, educators and policymakers can help close the achievement gap and make a major contribution to realizing this growing population's remarkable potential.
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Resumen Ejecutivo (executive summary in Spanish)

"Leadership Matters: Governors' Pre-K Proposals - Fiscal Year 2007"
May 2006
More governors than ever before are making high-quality pre-k a top priority, but a few are still resisting this wise commitment. See which direction your governor is leading on pre-k.
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"Pre-K and Politics 2005"
March 2006
Using the Pre-K Now Political Barometer as a framework, this report analyzes the highlights of the pre-k movement in 2005.
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"Funding the Future: States' Approaches to Pre-K Finance"
February 2006
Examine how policymakers nationwide have found innovative approaches to financing
pre-kindergarten.
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Note: An updated version of this report is available here.

"Votes Count: Legislative Action on Pre-K - Fiscal Year 2006"
November 2005
Get the story and numbers behind the largest increase in state pre-k spending in five years.
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"Leadership Matters: Governors' Pre-K Proposals - Fiscal Year 2006"
April 2005
Find out whether your state’s chief executive is a leader in increasing investment in pre-k.
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Pre-K Now State Reports

"An Economic Analysis of Pre-K in Arkansas"
November 2006
This report finds that each dollar invested to date in the high-quality Arkansas Better Chance pre-k program will yield $2.32 in future savings to the state and that offering pre-k to all children would return savings of more than $100 million.
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"A Diverse System Delivers for Pre-K: Lessons Learned in New York State"
July 2006
To provide pre-k services to more children, states are increasingly turning to 'diverse' or 'mixed' delivery, which uses both community-based and school sites. This report examines New York's successful model.
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"An Economic Analysis of Four-Year-Old Kindergarten in Wisconsin: Returns to the Education System"
September 2005
Learn how every state dollar invested in pre-k would return 68 cents in savings to Wisconsin's education system.
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"An Economic Analysis of Pre-K in Louisiana"
June 2005
Understand the important role pre-k can play in the economic recovery of Louisiana, where every $1 invested in pre-k would produce $2.25 in benefits for the state.
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