Get stories like these delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter Michelle Gurgul has a good job as a dental hygienist, but the expense of private preschool for her daughter near her home in a Detroit suburb is beyond her budget. “If we had to pay for a tuition-based program, she wouldn’t be going,” Gurgul said, who lives in Allen Park with her family. “It’s a big extra cost. Do you pay however many hundreds of dollars a month for preschool?