Pre-school action needed

There's time to put pre-school funding in the budget.

Please sign and share our petition: 

 http://capta6.org/petition

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Governor Brown’s failure to invest in pre-school in his Budget Proposal is fiscally wasteful. He says he wishes to avoid expensive new programs.   It’s more expensive, however, not to fund pre-school. 

Every $1 spent on pre-school saves $7 by reducing remedial education and criminal justice costs, and by increasing high school graduation rates and future taxpayer earnings.

Since 1980, we’ve built nineteen prisons but only one university.  Half of the inmates in California prisons are high school dropouts. 

This fiscal wastefulness is magnified in California, where half our students grow up in poverty.  Forty to sixty percent of second and third graders are not grade-level proficient; those same children were behind when they started Kindergarten. 

Funding pre-school is a wise investment to avoid far greater future expenditures and to grow an educated, tax-paying base.

There's time to put pre-school funding in the budget. Please sign and share our petition: http://capta6.org/petition

Nancy Krop, Director of Legislation

Wendy Akers-Ghose, President

Sixth District PTA

"Serving the children of Santa Clara, Monterey, San Benito and Santa Cruz counties"

 

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