But the budget was tight, and following a task force's recommendations, he and local lawmakers decided to move resources from preschool (for 4-year-olds) to kindergarten (for 5-year-olds) in order to achieve it. One of his big goals was to provide universal, full-day kindergarten for Boston's kids. The Mayor of Boston, Thomas Menino, wanted to improve the city's schools. The story begins back in the mid-to-late 1990s. It adds to a burgeoning amount of high-quality research that shows just how valuable preschool is - and maybe not for the reasons you might think. In fact, a new study from the National Bureau of Economic Research gives us a glimpse of what that world could look like. How would their lives change? How would society change? If President Biden gets his way, and Congress agrees to spend $200 billion on his proposal for universal preschool, then we may begin to find out.īut it turns out, we kind of already know.
A future where every American child had access to two years of preschool during a critical period of their mental development. That's in large part because many parents can't afford it. Evelyn Hockstein for The Washington Post via Getty ImagesĪccording to the National Institute For Early Childhood Research, nearly half of all 3-year-olds and a third of all 4-year-olds in the United States were not enrolled in preschool in 2019.
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