Cleveland tries to add more highly-rated preschools
In this file photo, assistant teacher Mike Connolly plays with children at the preschool at Stepstone Academy in Cleveland. Today, cleveland.com looks at what constitutes high-quality preschool as part of the series Cleveland Connects: The First 2,000 Days. (Gus Chan / The Plain Dealer)
(Gus Chan, The Plain Deale)
CLEVELAND, Ohio - What constitutes a high-quality preschool? How do high-quality schools teach? How can you distinguish between high-quality and low-quality schools?
Today, cleveland.com answers those questions and more in the latest installment of Cleveland Connects: The First 2,000 Days, a series exploring the importance of investing in the first five years of a child's life.
Click on the links below to take you to today's stories.
The cost of preschools - sometimes equal to college tuition - can eat up a significant portion of your income. Learn how much you should be paying.
Find out why preschools cost so much.
Need help paying paying for preschool? Take a look at our guide to getting financial assistance and whether you qualify for it.
Find a quality preschool in your neighborhood by clicking on our interactive map.
This series is a partnership between cleveland.com, The Plain Dealer Publishing Co. and ideastream, the public broadcasting entity that includes WVIZ/PBS Channel 25, WCPN FM/90.3 and WCLV FM/104.9. PNC Bank is sponsoring the series as part of its investment in early childhood programs.
Please join us again on April 4, for a forum on high-quality preschool at the Idea Center, 1375 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland. Eboni Howard, an early childhood specialist and managing researcher at the American Institutes for Research, will be the keynote speaker. Joining her will be teachers and experts from Cleveland.
A reception is at 5 p.m. The program runs from 6 to 7:30 p.m.