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| As South Africa moves into the 21st century, it does not yet have the educational system it requires to develop the growth to overcome poverty and unemployment. This is a central issue – how South Africa builds a universal education system for primary and secondary levels that really works. Beyond Racism: Embracing an Interdependent Future - In Their Own Voices (2000) |
| Update Pre-Kindergarten in the South: Preserving the Region’s Comparative Advantage in Education | |
This SEF report warns Southern states against endangering critical, hard-earned gains in early childhood education – the South’s most effective innovation in public education – as state legislatures in the region consider substantial cuts to education programs.
The SEF report reviews how the South continues to lead the nation in offering high-quality state-funded pre-kindergarten (Pre-K) to 20 percent of the region’s three- and four-year-olds --- double the rate of the rest of the nation. The SEF report also finds that more than half the states with the nation’s highest Pre-K quality standards are in the South. In conjunction with the report’s release, SEF made available some “web extras” that provide additional details to the SEF study: Chart for Southern States on State Tax Revenue Decline – 2009 Graph of Southern States’ 2011 Excepted Budget Shortfalls Chart for Lobbyists and Lobbyist Expenditures in Southern State Capitals -2008 In 2007, SEF released its first report on the Southern states’ Pre-K programs: Pre-Kindergarten in the South: The Region’s Comparative Advantage in Education (2007). SEF’s newest report acknowledges that there are many public and private interests competing in Southern state capitals for funding in 2011 state budgets, but demonstrates that the continued education of three– and four-year old children in the South’s Pre-K programs represents a tiny but vitally important investment of state funds -- even in economic hard times. | |
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