It came as some surprise for us to learn just how important early education is to a childâs life, especially for kids in low-income households, which are abundant in Mesa County.
Thereâs a growing body of evidence that preschool makes a huge difference in the lives of all children, not just at-risk children. Kids who get preschool graduate at a higher rate, earn more money as adults, save more, are unemployed less and sentenced to incarceration less often than kids who donât.
The state with some of the strongest data in this realm is Oklahoma, which fully pays for preschool for any 4-year-old whose parents want it. One enterprising Oklahoma lawmaker who believed in the promise of universal preschool (based on studies such as The Perry Preschool Project) essentially tricked the state legislature into passing his bill to provide an extra year of public schooling.
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Strong families and hard work have formed the foundation for healthy development, meaningful relationships, and economic well-being ever since America’s inception. Now President Joseph Biden has a new vision: one in which progressive politicians and government bureaucrats sit at the helm of American families, financed through $1.8 trillion in new taxpayer spending.
Through unprecedented new federal education spending, new universal preschool and government child care programs, paid family leave, and new health care and welfare spending, the Biden Administration would significantly grow federal intervention in and control of some of the most personal aspects of family life. But by displacing the need for and value of things that families do to support one another, the President’s American Families PlanREF will do more to break down than to build up the infrastructure of American families, leaving them with fewer opportunities and less control over their circums
Biden Is Giving Child Care âPrime-Time Attention.â Can He Actually Transform It?
A turbulent pandemic, more women in Congress and decades of advocacy have set the stage for a complete overhaul of the child care system, experts said.
Cypress Hills Child Care Corporation in Queens. President Biden plans to vastly expand access to care for infants and toddlers.Credit.Kirsten Luce for The New York Times
April 29, 2021
âWhat has been a secretly whispered stress campaign for so many parents for so long is finally seeing prime-time attention.â
â Senator Patty Murray of Washington
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