North Carolina is one of 24 states looking to start or expand state-funded preschool this year. They claim it is in response to research, but the preschool funding doesn’t target those that research suggests it should:
?A preponderance of academic evidence suggests that lower-income and minority children benefit most from preschool. However, the vast majority of Prop. 82
funding would seem to benefit middle- and upper-income families who
already can or do send their children to preschool,?William Hamm, an independent consultant and former nonpartisan legislative analyst for California, said in a recent report.
