The Georgia lottery Pre-K program offers early learning to four-year-old children across the state of Georgia. The Georgia lottery provides funds for the educational program and is design to prepare eligible four-year-olds for kindergarten. Like the school system in Georgia, the program starts August of each calendar year and operates on a similar schedule Monday-Friday 6.5 hours a day for 180 days. The program is designed to develop and help children master the skills necessary to be successful in kindergarten. Some programs offered through private providers of preschool services or in the local public school system.
Beginning in the early 1990’s Governor Miller proposed the creation of the Georgia Lottery Education. He committed that all …show more content…
Families who struggled to pay rising cost of preschool and families hit during the economic crisis took advantage of the program. As the program gained popularity, pre-k children were showing great improvement in areas such as math, reading, and writing. The program expanded into the no income eligibility requirements for the Georgia program. The Georgia pre-k program is slipping away. Although it proves that early learning is a key to success later in life, for low-income, and at-risk youth, the recent spending cuts mean the pre-kindergarten program, will serve 2,000 fewer children in the coming school year. Over the years, class sizes have grown and the pre-k centers have less money to work with. Less funding mean fewer resources. The state’s office of readiness is looking for ways to tighten spending without putting a cap on the number of children to be served or stepping back from serving families of all income levels. The lottery program also pays for another education program that Georgia offers, The Hope Scholarship. The program covers student’s tuition and fees at public colleges who keep at least a B average. Because of rising tuition and increasing demands for scholarships, state officials informed that lottery revenues may fall short of paying for the pre-k programs. I believe there are some good pre-k programs however others may suffer from poorly trained, underpaid staff or lack of financial resources to purchases educational
Beginning in the early 1990’s Governor Miller proposed the creation of the Georgia Lottery Education. He committed that all …show more content…
Families who struggled to pay rising cost of preschool and families hit during the economic crisis took advantage of the program. As the program gained popularity, pre-k children were showing great improvement in areas such as math, reading, and writing. The program expanded into the no income eligibility requirements for the Georgia program. The Georgia pre-k program is slipping away. Although it proves that early learning is a key to success later in life, for low-income, and at-risk youth, the recent spending cuts mean the pre-kindergarten program, will serve 2,000 fewer children in the coming school year. Over the years, class sizes have grown and the pre-k centers have less money to work with. Less funding mean fewer resources. The state’s office of readiness is looking for ways to tighten spending without putting a cap on the number of children to be served or stepping back from serving families of all income levels. The lottery program also pays for another education program that Georgia offers, The Hope Scholarship. The program covers student’s tuition and fees at public colleges who keep at least a B average. Because of rising tuition and increasing demands for scholarships, state officials informed that lottery revenues may fall short of paying for the pre-k programs. I believe there are some good pre-k programs however others may suffer from poorly trained, underpaid staff or lack of financial resources to purchases educational