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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sure, the kids will be fine, but what I think the parents are asking is why the system can't be set up to be more equitable.

And I'd guess most people in that area of Capitol Hill have six figure incomes. But I don't know who wouldn't miss $15K from a $150-200K income...[/quote]

What would be more equitable than a lottery? (honest question, maybe more appropriate for a new thread tho)[/quote]

Means tested preschool.[/quote]

Is this having an income cap or income-preference for pre-school access? If so, then I think I would support that. However, didn't our current system grow out of a means-tested system (head start)? I wonder why the change was made to remove the income criteria for DC? There must have been some reasoning behind that that I would like to understand. [/quote]

Lots of research showing that universal PK, which DC doesn't quite have, gets better results academically.

Dollar for dollar, investments in early education get more and better results than anything past 1st grade.

Here's one summary. http://www.usnews.com/debate-club/should-the-government-fund-universal-pre-k/pre-k-is-good-but-universal-pre-k-is-better[/quote]

I'm afraid the jury is still out in terms of documenting long-term benefits.

http://mobile.edweek.org/c.jsp?cid=25919841&bcid=25919841&rssid=25919831&item=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.edweek.org%2Fv1%2Few%2F%3Fuuid%3DD556964C-6C3E-11E5-9B16-71C9B3743667
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like the jury is still out on climate change?  the article rightly addressed the key issue over quality where there is enormous variance.  DC PK is widely considered high quality

[i]"There's a huge variation in what's being called the same name—prekindergarten," said Dale Farran, a co-principal investigator on the TN-VPK study and senior associate director of the Peabody Research Institute. "You can be sure you will not get the same result in all these variations." [/i][/quote]

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