Detroit Study Highlights Savings Related To Kindergarten Readiness

The Detroit Free Press (4/26, Dawsey) reports that according to Detroit's One-Child School Readiness Dividend study, "for every Detroit child who enters kindergarten ready to learn, Michigan taxpayers save $100,000." The study's "conclusions support prior research which showed evidence that children -- particularly low-income children -- who attend early education programs that prepare them are less likely to depend on taxpayer-funded services." The Free Press reports that the study "estimates costs and benefits for state government systems such as K-12 education, criminal justice, welfare/public assistance, Medicaid, unemployment, child welfare, health care and child care."