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To: JohnM who wrote (235048)	10/17/2013 9:12:58 PM
From: JohnM	Respond to of 542147

That last bit, the pdf file, led me to spend a moment on a google search. I'm finding what I thought to be the case. Here's the first paragraph of a Pew report. Research shows that attending high-quality pre-kindergarten has a lasting impact on a child’s success both in school and in life. Leading economists find that investing dollars in high-quality pre-k yields significant returns. Armed with this growing body of evidence, many states have increased funding for pre-kindergarten in recent years, but there is more work to be done. More than 75 percent of the nation’s four-year-olds and an e - See more at: pewtrusts.org

To: JohnM who wrote (235048)	10/18/2013 11:48:47 AM
From: Bread Upon The Water	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542147

Ok--that will probably give me enough to chew on. Here's the thing though--if we want to provide free child pre-school care to poor families let's just be up front about it and debate that, politically (the legislature--not you and I) as a policy issue along with the cost of such. Let's not entangle that issue in conflicting studies about whether pre-school has good, or any, measurable, educational benefits. And that is how I feel about it in NC as well. I feel this an attempt by the universal pre-scool supporters to back door the issue through judicial activism rather than debate the "pros" and "cons" of such in the legislature.