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WASHINGTON — Preschool enrollment is up and spending on state pre-K programs is up too — but the economic downturn could spell trouble for the nation’s youngest schoolchildren, says a report being released today.
At least nine states, it says, are likely to make cuts to pre-kindergarten programs. Enrollment cuts and delaying expansion plans are some of the steps that states are considering, said one of the study’s authors, Steve Barnett, director at the National Institute for Early Education Research at Rutgers University.
The institute is urging the federal government to match state spending.
