The public is willing to spend as much as $5000 per child in a free preschool in Columbia. The free preschools in Columbia have increased their standard by keeping qualified teachers, building a smaller class size, giving medical services especially for hearing and seeing. Most of the programs are for children aged 3 to 5. Columbia, California, and Texas have seen a huge increase in spending per child. Free preschools up till 2016 have received major support under the Obama administration. As per the NIEER reports, they state that the number of free preschools is encouraging but the quality of each of these are unknown and the curriculums are uneven because there is no set centralized curriculum.

The disparities in the admission of a child are taken care of and pronounced as well. Free preschools in Washington spend around $15,748 per child unlike Columbia having to spend almost $5000 per child. The quality free preschools in Columbia are the only ones which are well funded while the others are not taken care of much. Hence, the quality depends on the funding and their target changes from low-income kids to middle-class students. They usually have universal programs if funding isn’t available. The problem is that when you have differentiated targeting curriculum designed in well-funded free preschools, this affects the minds of parents who would want to enroll their child in a targeted program but do not have the funding. That is where the segregation of students enrolling comes through income. In such circumstances, the state, central and federal governments are more likely to assist the funds and assist these preschools to target their program in a specific way.