There wasn’t a single, all-encompassing model for Mayor Julián Castro’s Pre-K 4 SA plan, but early education programs in Seattle and Perth Amboy, New Jersey, (both of which were visited by Castro’s team) stood out.
Seattle was useful for the methods it employed to measure the program’s effectiveness. Perth Amboy offered a demonstration of the much-vaunted Creative Curriculum approach, applied – much as Pre-K 4 SA would be – to a high percentage of Spanish-speaking, minority students from low-income families.
Neither city, however, could replicate the political landmines attached to Castro’s program, which goes before voters on November 6.
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