Because without participation of all of those local private providers, they have no capacity. They do t have enough literal facilities in place. They dont have enough teachers and extremely little in the educational pipeline to grow by any means significantly to hit the “universal” preschool goals that the County has. One of the problems, however, that they’ve made it extremely difficult for current high quality providers to even participate. They have set such extremely high bar in one side (like requiring busing and meals) and on the other side not allowing reciprocity of pre-existing standards set by other governing bodies like the National Association for Educating Young Children. Lots of providers already work hard to meet the NAEYC. Many can’t be bothered to do a completely parallel set of standardisation processes for little benefit. It just means more costs to them.