Early Childhood Education in the USA: Focusing on Pre-Kindergarten offer in the Los Angeles Unified School District
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Public Subsidy. Charter School. Early Childhood Education. Privatization.Abstract
This article analyzes educational offerings for four-year-old in the Los Angeles Unified School District in the United States between 2013 and 2018. The available data on official websites of different levels of government and research institutes across the United States, have shown that the majority of offerings for this age group in the district are provided in elementary schools through the programs California State Preschool program e Transitional Kindergarten. During the period studied, there was a significant growth of charter schools for this level of education, resulting in the growth of this service also in early childhood education and configuring the expansion of the privatization of education via public subsidy to privately managed schools in this educational district, resources such as increased with the inclusion and accounting of such children. From a more general point of view, the absence of a federal policy to universalize access to early childhood education has been identified, which generates inequalities in access to this right.
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