Pittsburgh has provided a mixed-delivery pre-K model since 2008. With a newly-created Early Childhood Education Task Force charged with moving the city toward universal pre-K, Pittsburgh is poised to build on its existing model during expansion. To do so effectively, city policymakers and stakeholders will need to answer several important questions:

▪ How does the current mixed-delivery system work in Pittsburgh?

▪ What do district staff and partners perceive to be its benefits?

▪ What are inherent challenges of the model?

▪ What current promising practices might help scale up the delivery of high-quality pre-K?

This brief explores these questions in order to inform the Task Force’s future efforts to craft an implementation plan that leverages existing partnerships and new funding to serve more children in the city’s public pre-K programs.