EXCERPT FROM: TheUnion.com
By Kyle Magin
Pre-school administrators are concerned the building blocks of California's public education system may be knocked down by the state's ever-worsening budget crisis.

EXCERPT FROM: Gothamist
By Jaya Saxena
This year, over 112 public schools placed students on wait lists for their kindergarten programs, and last year the Daily News reported that getting into many Brooklyn pre-K programs were "tougher to get into than Harvard." Now, the News says getting into Brooklyn pre-K is even tougher than that.

EXCERPT FROM: WAFF 48 News
By Bobby Shuttleworth
DECATUR, AL (WAFF) - Some 4-year-old Sommerville Road students are learning at an accelerated rate, but not all children are lucky enough to be here. There are only so many slots available in the Decatur City Schools, and they are chosen by lottery.

EXCERPT FROM: The Commercial Appeal
By Kevin McKenzie
Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Bill Gibbons didn't suggest Thursday that he needed more prosecutors to fight crime; rather, he highlighted quality prekindergarten programs as a way to excite children about learning and avoid future lives of crime.

EXCERPT FROM: NY Daily News
By Michael McLaughlin and Ben Chapman
When school starts next week, a record number of kids will find they've been squeezed out of some of Brooklyn's most crowded and popular pre-K programs.

EXCERPT FROM: Volunteer TV
By Amber Miller
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT) -- Future crime could be headed to your neighborhood if you and the state of Tennessee don't take Pre-K more seriously.

EXCERPT FROM: The Record News
By Cecelia Martinez
TROY – In an effort to encourage the State Legislature to improve early childhood education programs, area law enforcement officials sat down and read with a class of preschool children at the Commission for Economic Opportunity. Police Chief John Tedesco, Rensselaer County District Attorney Rich McNally and Rensselaer County Sheriff Jack Mahar visited the program, saying that in addition to preparing children academically, high quality pre-kindergarten prevents crime.

EXCERPT FROM: KY3 News
By Abby Wuellner
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- More than 24,000 students headed back to class in the Springfield School District this week; 300 students, however, will wait until next Monday to start classes.  For now, their teachers are the students.

EXCERPT FROM: The Herald Dispatch
By Staff
HUNTINGTON — The Cabell County Board of Education will hear an update on the Pre-K program and an overview of student test scores from the WESTEST 2 at its meeting at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 17, at the central office, 2850 5th Ave.

EXCERPT FROM: Business Wire
By BUSINESS WIRE
MEMPHIS, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--With studies consistently proving the effectiveness of quality Pre-K education on the future of students, global education leader Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) continues to partner with large urban school districts to help mold students at one of the most important times in their development.