Universal Preschool: Policy Change, Stability, and the Pew Charitable Trusts
Author
Brenda K. Bushouse
Publisher
SUNY Press
Publication Date
2/23/09
Subject
Education, Political Science, Public Policy, State and Local Politics
Pages
229
Description
Examines recent trends in state-funded preschool education.
The spectacular recent success of state-funded preschool education is revealed and explained in this absorbing study. A quiet revolution has been underway in American education policy since 1995, with forty-one states and the District of Columbia creating some form of state-funded preschool learning. Brenda K. Bushouse tells why it became politically advantageous for state legislators to support universal access to preschool programs and how political and budgetary stability was achieved to spur this initiative. In 2001, the Pew Charitable Trusts announced an ambitious new giving program aimed at creating universal preschool for all three- and four-year-olds. Bushouse reveals Pew's unorthodox giving program and complex strategy for advancing universal preschool policy change.
About the Author
Brenda K. Bushouse ---
Brenda K. Bushouse is Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
