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What kind of meaningful data is MCPS really going to collect. It will take years, to determine if this program is worth the money. Low income families tend to be very transient. How many students are they going to be able to track through high school let alone through elementary school. There has only been one longitudinal study to see if students in state funded pre - k programs had better educational outcomes, and this study found no statistically significant improvement in academic achievements.

I am okay with extending the school year, but would prefer to be realistic. We are extending the school year to improve nutrition, provide enrichment and quality childcare for children, and help poor families with their summer childcare budgets. [/quote]

There's always an argument against trying anything, isn't there? We shouldn't do Strategy X to address Problem Y, because Strategy X doesn't, all by itself, completely solve Problem Y...

[i]As states have upgraded their commitment to pre?K education over the past two decades, questions have arisen. Critics argue that program effects are likely to fade out or disappear over time, while supporters contend that program effects are likely to persist under certain conditions. Using data from Tulsa Public Schools, three neighboring school districts, and the state of Oklahoma, and propensity score weighting, we estimate the effects of Tulsa's universal, school?based pre?K program on multiple measures of academic progress for middle school students. We find enduring effects on math achievement test scores, enrollment in honors courses, and grade retention for students as a whole, and similar effects for certain subgroups. We conclude that some positive effects of a high?quality pre?K program are discernible as late as middle school.[/i]

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/pam.22023

Interview with researcher here: https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2017/12/12/568378251/does-preschool-pay-off-tulsa-says-yes?mc_cid=f7ba755b2e&mc_eid=3037f8c567
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