Obama’s Universal Preschool Plan: As Good as It Sounds?

Firedoglake writes, President Obama promises to strengthen early childhood education, but will he follow through with funding? Originally posted at In These Times Of all the mildly liberal, media-genic proposals that peppered President Barack Obama’s state of the Union Address, one seemed especially designed to withstand curmudgeonly criticism from the Right: universal preschool. The image of millions of young tots learning their ABCs and fingerpainting is hard to demonize as evil Big Government. Nonetheless, Obama’s sweeping plan for the nationwide expansion of early childhood learning programs may not…

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