There's
time to put pre-school funding in the budget.
Please sign and share our
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
Wendy Akers-Ghose, President
Sixth District PTA
"Serving the children of Santa Clara, Monterey, San Benito and Santa Cruz counties"
1290 Ridder Park Drive, M/C 214
San Jose, CA
95131-2304
650-858-6955
