Senate budget proposal would slash Pre-K Counts funding from the governor’s 2009-2010  budget proposal by 55%. Governor Rendell proposes to expand Pennsylvania Pre-K Counts by over 1,000 3- and 4 years in his FY 2009-2010 budget. Nearly 12,000 children are participating in Pre-K Counts in the 2008-2009 school year. Ninety-four percent (94%) of Pre-K Counts children finished the school year with age-appropriate skills and behavior or emerging age-appropriate skills and behavior in 2007-2008.

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.