Georgia’s Pre-Kindergarten program received the highest possible ranking in a new national study. It’s the first time the state has met all ten standards established in the “State of Preschool Yearbook.”
The report is published by the National Institute for Early Education Research at Rutgers University. The program’s executive director, Dr. Steve Barnett, says Georgia met all the criteria.
“Do you require teachers to be well-educated?” Barnett asks, “Do you have reasonable class sizes and ratio? And also do you send people from the state out there to look at what’s going on in the classrooms and make sure that the resources are actually being used effectively?”
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