Preschool Plan Should Raise Many Questions

The article on the “Preschool Plan” (“A Compromise on Preschool Plan,” July 13) tells us plenty about the bureaucratic setup for running this First 5 activity, but it generates plenty of questions.

With all these people and all that money ($600 million), there’s little information about what will the kids in the First 5 be doing. What do we expect them to learn? How will we know? Who will the teachers, directors, support staff, etc., be? And how will they be qualified?

What materials will the kids and their staffs be using? And where will this take place? Will the kids walk to school, get on buses, be delivered by parents?

With all that’s at stake, where are the early childhood experts who should be on board from the start? I see plenty of “activists” and lots of chiefs, but precious few Indians.

Nathan Kravetz

Professor emeritus

of education

City University of New York

Sherman Oaks