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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Pre-K isn't about people who can afford daycare getting someone else to pay for it. It's about reducing inequality of opportunity so kids don't arrive to kindergarten already behind their peers[/quote]

This is such BS.  We have had HeadStart for years in this country.  And, guess what studies show?

[quote]POLITICIANS AND policymakers have been arguing about whether Head Start works ever since the federally funded early childhood education program for low-income families began in the 1960s. And yet, 50 years later, after more than 30 million children have been through the program, a new research report from a unit of the U.S. Department of Education concludes that we still don't have much rigorous research evidence to show that Head Start is effective in preparing children for elementary school.

The July 2015 report from the What Works Clearinghouse describes how it reviewed 90 widely different studies on Head Start. Some looked at whether Head Start improves family health, for example; others at childhood obesity. Fewer than half the studies had conducted original research that assessed whether students' academic and behavioral skills had improved.

Only one of these studies passed scientific muster, and it showed rather disappointing results. It found that Head Start had "potentially positive effects" on general reading achievement and "no discernible effects" on mathematics achievement and social-emotional development for 3-year-old and 4-year-old children.[/quote]

https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2015/08/03/report-scant-scientific-evidence-for-head-start-programs-effectiveness[/quote]

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