Chicago Early Learning Centers Say Free CPS Pre-K Comes At A Cost – WBEZ

The free program through Chicago Public Schools could come at a major cost to community-based early childhood centers, many of which offer far more than preschool for four-year-olds, including infant and toddler care as well as after school and summer programming. The preschool expansion, coupled with new requirements for centers that receive public funding, is hurting centers across the city, including Concordia Place in the Avondale neighborhood on the North Side.
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NB-Chicago
4 years ago

Are the cps preschool teachers ctu or seiu signatory w giant legacy benefits? And at what $ cost per preschoolers is cps providing preschool vrs grants to community centers? community preschool teacher may be seiu? Or not

debtsor
4 years ago

“Charging any tuition, though, makes it hard to compete with free preschool at CPS.”

Government subsidies distort the free market? Who would have guessed?

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