The millionth child to attend Georgia's lottery-funded Pre-K goes to school at Sumter County Primary School in Americus
Georgia is the first state to put one million kids through a lottery-funded Pre-K program, and the millionth student is from southwest Georgia.
The millionth child goes to Pre-K at Sumter County Primary School in Americus. Governor Sonny Perdue visited the school along with a parade of state Pre-K officials. Pre-K started the same year as the Georgia Lottery in 1993. The full program launched in 1994. 16 years later, one million kids have gone to Pre-K in Georgia.
“I believe their life has the potential to really be changed. For them, for their families, for their whole posterity of getting that kind of start.” Perdue said. “It’s that huge. So a million is huge, but one is even greater.”
The state isn’t releasing which child is the millionth student. Instead the school gave all the preschoolers t-shirts that say “One in a Million.”
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