The policy emphasizing widespread pre- K education has now been recognized as a key priority to broaden further access to high-quality early childhood education for every child regardless of whether he/she is economically disadvantaged or belong to none privileged background. Now, one of the key measures to support universal pre-k is to have political initiatives that, among others, chiefly allocate funds for the early childhood education enhancement, deal with obstacles to access, and nurture cooperation between the government departments, educational institutions and community organizations.
One of the most important political approaches to expand pre-K program is to make effective lobbying to the relevant stakeholders and allocation of the funds to be given to the expansion of pre-k programs at the state and federal levels. It may require passing laws for the pre-K education not left to anyone’s benevolence, allocating dedicated budgets that favor wider pre-K expansion, and also setting quality standards and accountability measures to verify the effectiveness of any program implemented.
Moreover political officials should be bearing in mind of existence of the access hurdles, e.g. affordability, availability and transportation that make poor families in low income communities in the second place. We may work on providing subsidies for pre-K tuition for family low income, by extending the extent of offers for a full-day pre-K, and on developing transport infrastructure so that children can get a high-quality pre-K education whatever they are from whatever place.
Moreover, policy interventions should keep the allocation of funds for teacher training and professional development as a top priority to have a guarantee that pre-k educators have the knowledge, skills and appropriate support they require to offer high-quality early childhood education. It may mean allocating resources for sub-K educator certification programs, permanent professional development, and a mentoring program to the fresh teachers.
What is more, political leaders should help to develop the cooperation and sustainable parallelism among different government institutions, education fields and community organizations that could be resourceful and convenient in the terms of delivery of services. This aims at creating interagency task forces, public-private partnerships, and community coalitions that it is preferred for shared service expansion, best practises, and filling service gaps.
A synthesis of the appropriate political policies will be needed which places an emphasis on thorough investments, specifically in areas that may block the working class, training of qualified teachers, and the development of different organizations. While early childhood education is the underlying basis of educational equity and social mobility, political leaders can make this a reality by giving it a lot of importance in their education programs, thus ensuring that all children have a good environment from the first years of life.
