Financing early childhood education programs: State, Federal, and local issues

Educational Policy

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 167-192

  Hustedt, Jason T ^a   Barnett, W Steven ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b The State University of New Jersey   (United States)

Author keywords

early childhood finance; funding streams; public preschool education; state pre K

Indexed keywords

EID: 78651405050     PISSN: 08959048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0895904810386605     Document Type: Article

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