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Pre-K Counts Application
and Guidance Pre-K News Clips Related Links For more information about
Pennsylvania Pre-K Counts
visit the PDE web-site
by clicking here.

Pennsylvania Pre-K Counts level funded in FY 2009-2010 budget at $86.4 million to provide 11,800 3- and 4-year olds voluntary, high quality pre-K.
2008-2009 Pennsylvania Pre-K Counts year end report released. Nearly every child (99%) finished the school year with age-appropriate skills and behavior or emerging age-appropriate skills and behavior in 2008-2009. Click here to read the report (PDF).
At the start of the 2009-2010 school-year, more than 7,800 eligible children were on waiting lists for Pennsylvania Pre-K Counts.

Important Information:

Pennsylvania Pre-K Counts Enrollment Contacts – 2009-2010 (PDF)

Pennsylvania Pre-K Counts Website

Pre-K Today is a statewide non-partisan campaign supported by a broad-based coalition from around the Commonwealth committed to efforts to advance dedicated state financing for voluntary high-quality pre-kindergarten programs designed to assure that Pennsylvania's children enter school ready to learn and prepared to succeed.