How Gov. Whitmer’s Universal PreK Plan Impacts Early Childhood

Michigan’s Children’s Speaking for Kids Host Matt Gillard
explores Governor


Gretchen Whitmer’s “universal PreK plan” to expand access and
eligibility to the


state’s Great Start Readiness Program to all interested families
of 4-year-olds.


Presented in the Governor’s recent State of the State address,
it’s a bold plan that


has raised interest and some concern among early childhood
providers and


advocates. Listen in as Matt welcomes Dawne Bell, CEO of
Michigan’s Early


Childhood Investment Corporation, one of the state’s leading
voices on early care


and education, and Jeff Capizanno, founder of the Washington,
D.C.-based Policy


Equity Group. Capizanno is working with Michigan’s early
childhood community


to evaluate how to implement the proposal in Michigan.