Preschool Programs Tread Thin Budget Ice

Teacher Barbie Carr works with preschoolers at Clyde F. Brown Elementary School in Millis, Mass. —Erik Jacobs for Education Week-File

States Struggle to Maintain Funding of Popular Early-Education Efforts

By Christina A. Samuels

Early-childhood programs remain popular among state lawmakers, who for the most part have attempted to hold the line on cuts even in the midst of the recession.

But as states enter a new budget cycle this summer, it’s possible preschool programs may end up being trimmed along with other budget items, said Julie Poppe, an early-childhood policy analyst with the National Conference of State Legislatures, in Denver.

“For fiscal 2010, how is pre-K going to stand up? I don’t...

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