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The budgets for state prekindergarten programs have increased or are expected to increase in more than half the 50 states this fiscal year, according to the annual report from Pre-K Now reported in Education Week (November 30, 2005; www.edweek.org).  The rise in funding — roughly $600 million nationwide — is the largest single-year increase in the past five years.

The Pre-K Now report shows that the Southeast continues to lead the nation in expanding and paying for early childhood education.  Six of the ten states that increased their fiscal 2006 Pre-K budgets by more than 30 percent over the previous year are in that region — Tennessee, Florida, Arkansas, Louisiana, North Carolina, and Virginia.

Funding stayed level for preschool programs in three of the most populous states — California, New York, and Michigan;  and funding decreases were made in New Jersey and Vermont.

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