CHARLESTON â West Virginia provided state-funded pre-Kindergarten last school year to a greater percentage of 4-year-olds than most states did, according to an institute at New Jerseyâs Rutgers University that has ranked the state highly in the past.
With 68% of 4-year-olds enrolled in the stateâs âuniversalâ pre-K system, West Virginia ranked No. 6 in the nation, according to the National Institute for Early Education Research.
âThe shining light in our entire education system is our universal pre-K,â state Schools Superintendent Clayton Burch said in a news conference with the institute.
But the institute has expressed concern nationally about the COVID-19 pandemicâs impact on preschool enrollment. Burch said heâs concerned, too.
Biden Details $1.8 Trillion Plan for Workers, Students and Families
The proposed American Families Plan would expand access to education and child care. It would be financed partly through higher taxes on the wealthiest Americans.
President Biden will lay out the details of his American Families Plan in an address to Congress on Wednesday evening.Credit.Erin Scott for The New York Times
April 28, 2021Updated 9:26 a.m. ET
WASHINGTON The Biden administration on Wednesday detailed a $1.8 trillion collection of spending increases and tax cuts that seeks to expand access to education, reduce the cost of child care and support women in the work force, financed by additional taxes on high earners.
A Bipartisan Schools Movement
Graduation at Motlow State Community College in Tullahoma, Tenn.Credit.Joe Buglewicz for The New York Times
April 28, 2021, 6:22 a.m. ET
Over the past decade, an idea has become popular with mayors and governors, both Democratic and Republican: A K-12 education is no longer enough.
Students should start school earlier than kindergarten, according to this view, both to help families with child care and to provide children with early learning. And students should stay in school beyond high school, because decent-paying jobs in today’s economy typically require either a college degree or vocational training.
In response, many states and cities have expanded education on at least one end of K-12. Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, New York, Vermont and West Virginia have something approaching universal pre-K. Arkansas, Indiana, New Jersey and more than a dozen other states have tuition-free community college. These expansions appeal to liberals’ desi
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