Friday, September 08, 2006

Diane Weir Dismantles Universal Preschool In MA

School Board member and blogger Diane Weir takes a long hard look at some numbers underpinning a move for Universal Preschool in Massachussets.
Just look at the items folks at the Early Education for All (EEA) campaign found worthy of state funding:

- $12.5M for the subsidized child care provider salary rate reserve

- $10.9M for the Department of Early Education and Care's administrative account

- $1.3M increase for Resource and Referral Agencies

- $1M increase for Head Start

- $1.5M for Professional Development

For those of you counting, that's $24.9M for administration, salaries, and professional development compared with $2.3M that may actually flow to the families who need it.
You read that right, ten times the administrative costs for a program that probably won't serve nearly enough kids in poverty.

1 comment:

dweir said...

Not to say "I told you so," but look what the department has done with all those millions:

http://bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/20090928state_imposing_host_of_new_requirements_on_day-care_providers/

My favorite part:
Child-care workers are now called “educators.”

Let it be so! What a circus!