No Longer Welcome: The Epidemic of Expulsion from Early Childhood Education

For over fifteen years, researchers have described a crisis in our nations' early learning classrooms. Hundreds of children are expelled from childcare and preschool every day; a rate nearly three times that of kindergarten-twelfth grade students. Each child's expulsion is symptomatic of a larger crisis-an overburdened, underfunded, undervalued, and fragmented early education system.



In early childhood, expulsion is the result of a series of adult decisions made within constrained contexts a...