The California State Department of Education provides part-day comprehensive development programs for 3- to 5-year-olds from low income families. The programs include educational development, health services, social services, nutrition services, parent education and participation, evaluation, and staff development. The state requires that all subsidized programs evaluate themselves using an instrument called the Program Quality Review. Recognizing that schools are already involved in providing day care programs, the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) Bush Program has been primarily concerned about issues of child care as opposed to issues of schooling. The Child Care Task Force has several suggestions as to the role schools should play in providing services to four-year-olds and their families: (1) school involvement should be in full day programs as opposed to part day programs, (2) programs should be year round instead of being offered on the traditional school year schedule, (3) children should be presented with educational models that are developmentally appropriate, and (4) programs should offer cultural diversity. A study of 100 randomly selected child care programs in the county of Los Angeles, however, revealed that teachers and directors are running structured programs. This suggests that while the appropriate role for schools should be to extol the positive effects of high quality preschool programs, there is also a need to get the developmental principles that underlie the different curriculum models across to the public. (HOD)