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Justice Circle March 2012
KEY FINDINGS:
- Public schools play a major role in North Carolina’s Pre‐K program. In 17 counties, 100 percent of the Pre‐K slots are in public schools.
- All 17 of these counties are rural, and a majority of them are high‐poverty.
- More than half (58) of the state’s counties rely on public schools to host and manage more than half of their Pre‐K slots. Only 6 out of these 58 counties are not rural.
- Rural, high‐poverty counties do not have robust networks of private child‐care centers, and therefore privatizing Pre‐K would limit access to the program in these areas.