Funding for pre-kindergarten programs was up nationwide in the 2017-2018 school year — that’s according to a new analysis by the group Education Commission of the States.
All together, states spent more than $256 million more than the previous year — that’s a 3.4 percent increase. In Arizona, that funding increase was a little less than $2 million.
With The Show to talk more about all of this was Bruce Atchison. He’s a principal at ECS, where he oversees early childhood education programs and is one of the lead authors of the new report on pre-K funding.
