Children who attend high-quality preschool enter kindergarten with better pre-reading skills, richer vocabularies, and stronger basic math skills than those who do not.
Lost earnings due to poor or nonexistent childcare totals $122 billion per year according the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
A child without an early childhood education is 25 percent more likely to drop out of school, 40 percent more likely to become a teenage parent, and 70 percent more likely to be arrested for a violent crime.
High quality early education childhood education programs are proven to improve children’s chances for success in later life.