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Swain, Walker; Wang, Shuyang; Kouaho, Joseph-Emery – Urban Institute, 2023
Absent a nationwide plan for universal public prekindergarten, states and districts have taken various approaches to increasing access to school-based educational opportunities for their youngest learners. Though some of these programs have focused on making public prekindergarten available to all families, others have targeted families most in…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Public Education, Equal Education, State Programs
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Ready, Douglas D.; Reid, Jeanne L. – American Educational Research Journal, 2023
New York City's Pre-K for All (PKA) is the nation's largest universal early childhood initiative, serving over 64,000 four-year-olds annually. Stemming from the program's choice architecture as well as the city's stark residential segregation, PKA programs are extremely segregated by child race/ethnicity. Our current study explores the complex…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Access to Education, Racial Segregation, Ethnicity
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Latham, Scott; Corcoran, Sean P.; Sattin-Bajaj, Carolyn; Jennings, Jennifer L. – Educational Researcher, 2021
New York City's universal prekindergarten (pre-K) program, which increased full-day enrollment from 19,000 to almost 70,000 children, is ambitious in both scale and implementation speed. We provide new evidence on the distribution of pre-K quality in New York City by student race/ethnicity, and investigate the extent to which observed differences…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Equal Education, Educational Quality, Racial Differences