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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Also this thread is a great example of how means-tested programs lead to sniping and form-filling.

We should have universal PreK throughout DC (and throughout the country).  Instead, DC and HHS each have to pay hundreds of thousands in salaries to administer a grant program, and now people are fighting about who should have free PK.

EVERYONE should have free PK.  There is plenty of money in our economy to pay for it.  The problem is that rightwing billionaires pay lower taxes on their ill-gotten gains (usually via monopolistic or politically corrupt practices) than your average at-risk family.  We should be fighting with the conservative billionaires starving our schools, led by Betsy DeVos, not fighting amongst ourselves about which kids deserve pre-K.  All kids deserve pre-K.  This is a talent-based and education-based economy.[/quote]

Hate to break it to you but free preK throughout the country is an unrealistic, ideology.  People want lots of free things but someone is going to have to pay for it.  Studies show preK can make a difference in poor, low SES families.  In middle class families not so much.

So yes, head start was based on accurate data that preK would benefit poor families.  That is who should get free or subsidized preK.  Not you or me who don’t fit that socioeconomic status.  Middle class families in DC are just benefitting from a program currently not meant for them.  Head start has a right to pull funding from preK programs in DC who don’t have majority low income families.[/quote]

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