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Raising hopes among parents who want preschool for all, President Barack Obama on Thursday rolled out a plan to vastly expand government-funded early childhood while keeping the price tag a secret.
The plan seeks to provide scholarships and professional development for educators and boost the starting pay rate of employees in participating pre-K and Head Start locations to $15 per hour.
Studies show that investing money in high-quality preschool will actually improve our country's fiscal health by strengthening human capital, enhancing economic growth, increasing revenues, and ...
Bennet education plan promises free preschool, other reforms by: The Associated Press Posted: Sep 5, 2019 / 03:26 PM MDT Updated: Sep 5, 2019 / 03:27 PM MDT ...
MANHATTAN, N.Y. (PIX11) – An Upper West Side preschool faces questions after teaching the ABCs of gender identity to a class of three- and four-year-olds. The school said that a substitute ...
NEPTUNE - School officials plan to shut down the district’s lone preschool because of state aid cuts, according to Superintendent Tami Crader. But the 200 3- and 4-year-old students will not be ...
Momentum is growing for Hawaii’s plan to create statewide access to preschool — but so are anxieties over how quality teachers for 465 new classrooms would be found amid a pervasive teacher ...
The city’s preschool plan would cover the entire tuition — estimated at almost $11,000 a year per child — for families making up to three times the federal poverty level (for a family of ...
Biden’s plan calls for free, quality preschool for all 3- and 4-year-olds, according to the White House. The cost, estimated to be $200 billion, would be paid for by a series of tax increases on ...