Education Law

Pre-k cuts crime, report says

One more reason to invest in pre-K . . .

Congress and states should expand pre-K programs because it is among "the most effective strategies to increase graduation rate," said a new report by Fight Crime; Invest in Kids, a national anti-crime group comprising more than 4,000 law enforcement officials and crime victims.

Although it is not a new argument, the report has some interesting stats, including: increasing high school graduation rates by 10 percentage points will save billions of dollars and prevent 3,000 murders and 175,000 aggravated assaults in the U.S. each year.

Given this report and other evidence that shows the benefit of quality preschool, NSBA has been in the forefront of advocating more federal investments in voluntary publicly funded pre-K in states, check out NSBA's Pre-K Legislative Committee and the work it does, here.

And for more on pre-K research, check out the Center for Public Education.

Full post as published by BoardBuzz: NSBA's Daily Weblog on August 27, 2008 (boomark / email).