Majority of states with early education cut program spending in 2011
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Janiyah Chess, left, and Mariana Noyola make bracelets at Wilder Child Development Center in St. Paul on Wed. July 27, 2011. The two girls will enter kindergarten in the fall, after having completed early childhood education at the center.
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A new report from the National Institute for Early Education Research to be released Tuesday shows that roughly two-thirds of the states with early childhood education programs cut spending on those programs in 2011.
Steven Barnett, director of the institute at Rutgers University, will join The Daily Circuit Tuesday to discuss the findings. Andrew Rotherham, co-founder of Bellwether Education, will also join the discussion.
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