
Financing education is an inescapable reality. As pre-kindergarten is brought into the elementary school system, who pays for it becomes a significant question. Publicly funded pre-kindergarten programs and the public K-12 system are financed by very different mechanisms. Pre-kindergarten programs are supported by a complex combination of local, state and federal funding streams. And these streams have their own sets of rules and regulations.
Richard Clifford, FPG Senior Scientist and FirstSchool Co-Director