Pre-K Our Way is a nonprofit, nonpartisan advocacy organization focusing on raising the priority of pre-k expansion in NJ – and securing significant state-funding for pre-k expansion. Governor Murphy and legislative leadership view pre-k expansion as a statewide priority. As a result, there are now more than 100 communities with state-funded, full-day pre-k. However, hundreds of communities – and tens of thousands of 3- and 4-year-olds are still waiting.
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Pre-K Our Way (www.prekourway.org) is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that started in early 2015 to provide a strategic effort to have pre-k expansion as a statewide priority. The organization is a statewide advocacy effort led by former governors Kean and Florio and funded by almost 10 different philanthropic organizations. From inception, Pre-K Our Way has had a single focus: expansion of New Jersey’s existing high-quality, state-funded, full-day pre-k program to hundreds more communities – and to the tens of thousands of 3- and 4-year-olds waiting each year for access to New Jersey’s pre-k. Despite a law passed in 2008, the first funding in nearly a decade ($25 million in June 2017) and significant funding in the first budget of the Murphy Administration (nearly $83 million in July 2018), there are hundreds of communities still waiting for NJ’s state-funded, full-day pre-k.
Learn more about what Pre-K Our Way is, who is involved and how you can join the effort.
Expanding New Jersey’s pre-k program has become a bipartisan priority in New Jersey. Pre-K Our Way is your way to bring preschool to your children and your community.
Pre-K Our Way explains how each community can bring preschool to their community and make it theirs.
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