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Board presses for clarity on Preschool for All modeling, TAG remit and path to universality
Summary
Commissioners pressed staff on Nov. 5 for clearer assumptions and timelines behind modeling that will inform whether and how to sustain the Preschool for All program to universal access.
The Multnomah County Board of Commissioners used a Nov. 5 work session to press for clearer scope, assumptions and timelines related to the Preschool for All (PFA) program, the technical advisory group (TAG), the Program Advisory Group (PAG) and the Program Expert Group (PEG). Commissioners said they want the record clarified on the TAG’s remit, the data and demographic assumptions that underpin modeling to reach universal access, and how TAG and PEG outputs will be integrated with existing advisory bodies and department expertise.
Jeff Renfro of the county budget office explained that the TAG was designed as a small, technically focused group of demographers and economists to produce shared, data-driven…
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