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Where Are All the Preschoolers? [TheAtlantic.com]

 

The city of Springfield, Massachusetts, has had a serendipitous sequence of events supercharge its preschool-expansion efforts. Federal money came in just as local support for early-childhood education crested, and the closure of an early-childhood center created an opening for the school district to buy an existing facility.

The federal money, offered to Springfield and four other Massachusetts communities through the Preschool Expansion Grant program, enabled 195 new seats to go to 4-year-olds without prior experience in formal preschools.

[For more of this story, written by Tara Garcia Mathewson, go to https://www.theatlantic.com/ed...preschoolers/524448/]

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