Going the Distance: Disparities in Pre-K Enrollment in Higher-Quality Schools by Geographic Proximity, Race/Ethnicity, Family Income, and Home Language

• Main Authors: Meghan McCormick (Author), Mirjana Pralica (Author), JoAnn Hsueh (Author), Christina Weiland (Author), Amanda Ketner Weissman (Author), Anna Shapiro (Author), Samantha Xia (Author), Cullen MacDowell (Author), Samuel Maves (Author), Anne Taylor (Author), Jason Sachs (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: SAGE Publishing, 2023-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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This study leverages six years of public prekindergarten (pre-K) and kindergarten data (N = 22,469) from the Boston Public Schools (BPS) to examine enrollment in BPS pre-K from 2012-2017 for students from different racial/ethnic, socioeconomic, and linguistic groups. The largest differences in enrol...