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...makes a lot of sense now. In September, Johnny, now four, started pre-kindergarten at Brooklyn's P.S. 200, the local public elementary school--free. He is one of the first beneficiaries of a $62 million New York State program aimed at making preschool, like elementary and high school, part of every child's publicly funded education...
Parental demand for early learning has grown steadily in recent years--as has the cost. Well-off families can usually afford the pricey tuition of private preschool, and the poor are eligible for aid in the form of Head Start, the federally funded preschool program. But middle-class families like the Morreales have traditionally been left...
That is starting to change. Today 39 states pay for at least one kind of pre-kindergarten program, says a September report by the Families and Work Institute. Though admission usually hinges on financial need, a few states are moving toward universal pre-K, so called because it provides a place for every child whose parents want one. Georgia has funded universal pre-K since 1995. And beginning this fall, New York is funding some 19,000 slots for pre-kindergartners, chosen mainly by lottery; it has pledged universal access...
Back in 1992, when Georgia Governor Zell Miller first floated the idea of publicly funding pre-K, his plan was roundly derided as state-sponsored baby sitting. Yet today Georgia's $217 million program serves 61,000 kids, and is so popular with parents that some camp out all night to be first to register. Miller now advocates mandatory enrollment. "If I had a choice of pre-K or 12th grade being mandatory," he says, "I'd take pre-K in a second...
...malady is fully emerging into the daylight: it has been the "disease of the week" topic on recent episodes of the teen-oriented TV series 7th Heaven and Beverly Hills 90210. And now come two major books: Bodily Harm (Hyperion) by Conterio and Lader, based on their successful treatment program, and A Bright Red Scream (Viking), in which journalist Marilee Strong provides a compelling tour of the trauma and science of self-injury...