Research Report Estimates of the Costs and Benefits of Expanding the Early Childhood Education Program in Kentucky Christopher Jepsen, Kenneth R. Troske, Casey Brasher

Kentucky officials are being encouraged to expand the availability of Kentucky’s state-funded preschool program. The current program restricts eligibility to three- and four-year-old students with disabilities and four-year-old students with family incomes up to 150 percent of the federal poverty level.