The 18th edition of "The State of Preschool," the National Institute for Early Education Research's (NIEER) report on the annual survey of state preschool policies, includes information for every state on child enrollment, funding, staffing, and quality standards. It also includes information about where children are served, preschool program operating schedules, and other program features. The main survey focused on the 2019-2020 school year, the one that was interrupted in the Spring 2020 by the COVID-19 pandemic. Thus, data in this report largely reflect a pre-COVID-19 preschool landscape. The special report this year adds to this a more updated picture that highlights the substantial impacts the pandemic has had on state-funded preschool enrollment, funding, and quality standards. This information can help policymakers plan for rebounding preschool from the negative impacts of the pandemic to support both future cohorts of preschoolers and the children who missed out on preschool learning opportunities in the last year. This report provides a first look at the COVID-19 pandemic's impacts on access, quality, and funding for states' preschool education programs. In most years, the State of Preschool reports only on the prior year (2019-2020 in this case), but this is not most years. As the data collection took place during the worst pandemic in more than a century, a special section was added to address the COVID-19 pandemic's impacts on state-funded preschool. This additional information, together with the main survey, provides a basis for reflecting on how access to high quality preschool has changed and what we can do to ensure more children, especially the most vulnerable, have the opportunity to attend high-quality (in-person) preschool at ages 3 and 4 in the future. [For "The State of Preschool 2019: State Preschool Yearbook," see ED605792.]