Pre-K Momentum Still Building

10/06/2006

Pre-K Momentum Still Building

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you had everything to do, and you've done it.
Margaret Thatcher

An annual forecast prepared by Wilson Marketing Group, an early childhood database and market research firm, predicts that the school-based segment of the preschool market will continue to grow in 2007. According to the forecast, more states are expanding the supply of pre-k and placing greater emphasis on quality. This has driven state spending levels to new highs.

Wilson Marketing Group projects that state pre-k funding will increase 9.7 % to $4.6 billion in fiscal year 2007, once again growing at a higher rate than spending for K-12 education. State funding for pre-k has increased 109% since the turn of the century, compared to an estimated 42% increase for K-12 education. In 2007, 29 states plus the District of Columbia will increase pre-k spending.

A 20-page report on this annual forecast is available from the Wilson Marketing Group for $95. For more information: [email protected].

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