Ms. LISA HUBERT (Owner, New Orleans Ghost Tour): Last pre-K, pre- Katrina, we were putting a 150 people out on the street every single day of the year.
Kopila Valley, which currently serves pre-K through 8th grade, is opening its first high school class.
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This means more resources devoted to parents and more resources devoted to pre-K education.
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Both projects were rigorous randomized trials, comparing kids who got pre-K benefits with a control group that didn't.
Though my Pre-K and Kindergarten survey was admittedly informal, the data looks grim.
Nationwide today about 1.3 million kids, or 28% of all four-year-olds, attend state-funded pre-K, a leap from 14% in 2002.
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Instead, she said, they have increased outreach efforts to build awareness, including a screening program in all pre-K classes that identifies possible candidates.
In the pre-K class Karen Simak, a 44-year veteran of the Chicago school system, is focusing her efforts on a broader life lesson--planning ahead.
Careful work by Maria Donovan Fitzpatrick of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research looked at student achievement in Georgia as its pre-K program phased in.
Others learned early that equations beat etchings (picture book writers, once considered the "academicians of the nursery, " have been trampled on the fast track to pre-K).
Within the galleries, the traffic flow is ingenious, and the 11 halls never feel cramped, even with hundreds of rambunctious schoolkids, from pre-K to high school, running around.
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Stone and Kenner originally wanted Legacy to hold full-day pre-K classes, a curriculum that can be funded in Illinois by one federal (Head Start) and two state government programs.
In a sense, however, the fact that states and districts are laying off teachers and cutting pre-K and other programs is itself a form of policy choice.
"You really have to sell them on the importance of pre-K and kindergarten: It's not what is used to be, " said John Crabbe, the Buffalo school district's attendance services supervisor.
The efforts of these organizations and many other like-minded groups are part of a national movement that would make social and emotional learning a free-standing, required learning standard for grades pre-k through 12.
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Stone worked for months trying to reconcile the different requirements each program had for families as well as the school, before throwing his hands up and deciding instead to offer two half-day pre-K classes.
And it would also be nice to see some of the big foundations poor some money into pre-K programs in the poorest neighborhoods in this country with the same gusto they fund the school-choice movement.
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This includes making sure every child in America has access to high-quality pre-K, and raising the minimum wage so that no family that works hard and relies on a minimum wage is living in poverty.
Kids who went to preschool in the mid-'60s were less likely to have been arrested several times by age 40, were more likely to have graduated from high school and were likely to earn more than non-pre-K kids studied.
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The implication is that we have been able to avert, for the reasons that Jared described, massive layoffs in -- and also created some jobs for pre-kindergarten, K through 12, and higher education -- both when we're looking at colleges and community colleges.
By contrast, the new rules basically let you convert everything in a traditional 401(k), including pre-tax salary deferrals, at any age, into a Roth 401(k).
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So say you had made pre-tax 401(k) contributions over the years before your employer started offering the Roth 401(k) option.
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Most people are better off in the pre-tax 401(k) because their income is generally lower when they need the money during retirement.
If you are close to hitting a phase out limit for a deduction, you may want to contribute to the pre-tax 401(k).
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Similarly, a rollover from a pre-tax 401(k), 403(b) or 457(b) plan into a traditional IRA also qualifies, as well as a rollover from a SIMPLE IRA and SEP-IRA to a traditional IRA. Rules and restrictions apply, so keep reading.
The main difference between the pre-tax and Roth 401(k) is whether you pay taxes now (Roth) or at the time you withdraw the money (pre-tax).
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