All families and school districts are going to have access to FREE school and child care for 4 year olds.
Right now, not every school district offers Universal Pre-K. School districts like Lancaster, New York and Hamburg, New York both have the program, but such as the case in Lancaster, it is not 100% guaranteed that your child will get in the Universal Pre K. If your district does not offer Universal Pre-K, or you don’t know what that means. Usually it is from the district itself OR a third party that will host and run a Pre-K for residents at NO cost. Sometimes there is not enough space to host every single kid that needs a spot, so their is a lottery.
It certainly is not a perfect system…