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  • DC Council Budget Hearings Impact Funding for Education Initatives

    • The District of Columbia Council will hold public hearings for the FY2011 budgets of city agencies in April 2010.  Pre K for All DC is interested in how funds are allotted to the City's education agencies because of their direct impact on the city's children. Pre K for All invites all stakeholders in early childhood education to follow and participate in these hearings in order to ensure that all children in the District of Columbia have access to high quality early childhood learning opportunities. 

     

     

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  • DC Council Passes Emergency Legislation to Accelerate Pre-K Implementation

    • On Tuesday January 5, 2010, the Council of the District of Columbia voted unanimously to pass the Pre-K Acceleration and Clarification Emergency Amendment Act of 2010. This emergency act will fast track the implementation of the landmark Pre-K Enhancement and Expansion Act of 2008 that ensures that all three- and four-year-olds in the District of Columbia have access to high-quality pre-k programs by September 2014.

     

     


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the social and economic returns

Investments in the city’s Early Care and Education Industry generate a high-rate of return for the District of Columbia.

Cost-benefit reports of three long-term, high-quality early education intervention programs demonstrate that significant cost-savings are generated when funds are invested in high-quality early care and education. All three studies demonstrated improvements in K-12, including lower rates of grade repetition, and dropping out of high school.

In 2006, the “Pre-K for All DC Campaign” commissioned Dr. Clive Belfield to determine the economic costs and benefits of investing public dollars in a universal system of high-quality pre-k for all three- and four- year-olds. Dr. Belfield found that if the District invested $58.5 million in expanding access and improving the quality of existing programs, the District would stand to reap $81.5 million in education, health and criminal justice cost-savings and additional tax revenue (see figure below). 

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