Making ‘PreK for All’ Work for All

Michigan’s Children’s Matt Gillard sits down with Jeff Capizzano,
President of the Policy Equity Group, to talk frankly about
Governor Whitmer’s “PreK for All” plan now that expanding free
4-year-old preschool is moving closer to becoming reality with
major state funding outlined in Whitmer’s proposed FY2025 budget
recommendations. They discuss the plan’s “roadmap” for quickly
expanding the state-funded preschool program at no cost to
families, regardless of household income, while guarding against
negatively impacting enrollment counts of private-pay,
community-based child care providers. 


Capizzano, whose Washington, D.C. firm was hired by the
Governor's office to work on an implementation strategy, said the
final recommendations represent a comprehensive strategy to
better compensate early childhood educators, support the varied
needs of families, and maintain viable privately owned child
care businesses. He warned against “cherry picking” certain
recommendations over others.