Minnesota's One-Child School Readiness Dividend: School Readiness in Minnesota Is Worth About $43,000 Per Low-Income Child Using Targeted Early Education Investments and Nearly $13,000 Per Child in Universal Pre-K

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Minnesota’s One-Child School Readiness Dividend: School Readiness in Minnesota Is Worth About $43,000 Per Low-Income Child Using Targeted Early Education Investments and Nearly $13,000 Per Child in Universal Pre-K

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2025-06-18

This brief describes the lifetime economic benefit to the state of Minnesota per child of both targeted early learning investments and universal pre-k. This is a 2016 update of a 2012 brief.

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Chase, Richard

Diaz, Jose

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451 Lexington Parkway N
St. Paul, MN 55104

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