The ever changing opportunities in school.

Hawaii is expanding its preschool education program to encourage and assist low income families to send their children to preschool. A child who enters kindergarten without first attending preschool may not have the proper knowledge for success in school, and may be less likely to have the necessary social and behavioral skills. This can slow down academic progress in the classroom, impacting all students. A study quoted in the legislation showed that 60 percent of kindergarten classes in Hawaii had a majority of students who were unprepared for school. In addition, the Hawaii State School Readiness Assessment indicated that fewer than 60 percent of kindergarten students had attended preschool. Before this bill was signed, Hawaii was one of 11 states without a government-funded preschool program. Eleven out of fifty is not exactly a good ratio. In my opinion that is a bad thing. Eleven out of fifty is below fifty percent,below half, and in school  below a 60 is failing. So to me the government is failing our students.

The average family in Hawaii pays 640$ a month to send a child to preschool. The "Preschool Open Doors" program provides approximately 6 million dollars to help pay for approximately 900 to 1,000 children to attend preschool in 2014. This amount is less than the original proposed amount of 32 million dollars, which would have provided funding for approximately 3,500 students. this program will help participating parents who enroll their children in any licensed preschool program in Hawaii. In my opinion that is sad. The future of our nation rest's on the shoulders of these young children, and they made major cutbacks on the allowed budget? It just doesn't seem right.

Governor Abercrombie, governor of Hawaii, remains optimistic about the future of state-funded preschool education in Hawaii. Last year, he established the Executive office on Early Learning with the hope to begin a program that would provide publicly funded universal preschool in Hawaii. This was only the first move in what looks to be an ongoing effort to increase public access to preschool. This leads me to believe that even though the government is making budget cuts there are people out there working to better our education program, and that there is hope for the ,bright young, youth of America. 

http://www.educationinamerica.com/blog/hawaii-expands-preschool-opportunities/