The Texas Legislature determines eligibility requirements for free, public PreKindergarten in Texas. When the Texas Legislature established the PreKindergarten program, the intent was, and still is, to provide early learning experiences to students who are most at risk for school failure. Therefore, the eligibility is limited. The legislature believed that a high quality PreKindergarten program could mitigate the impact of the at-risk characteristics, thereby assisting these students to become school ready when they enter Kindergarten. TEC 29.153 (b)