Fron the NYT. Eric
‘What are we going to do?’
Over the past decade, an idea has become popular with mayors and governors,
both Democratic and Republican: A K-12 education is no longer enough.
Students should start school earlier than
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according to this view, both to help families with child care and to provide
children with early learning. And students should stay in school beyond high
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because decent-paying jobs in today’s economy typically require either a
college degree or vocational training.
In response, many states and cities have expanded education on at least one end
of K-12. Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, New York, Vermont and West Virginia
have something approaching universal
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Arkansas, Indiana, New Jersey and more than a dozen other states have
tuition-free community
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These expansions appeal to liberals’ desire to use government for helping
people and conservatives’ preference for expanding the economic pie rather than
redistributing wealth.
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By The New York Times | Source: The National Institute for Early Education
Research
“The income disparity deal is real in our country,” Bill Haslam, a Republican
and the former Tennessee governor who pushed for free community college, told
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“and the question is, ‘What are we going to do about it?’”
Or as Rahm Emanuel, a Democrat and former mayor of Chicago who expanded pre-K
and community-college enrollments, told me: “High school just doesn’t cut it
anymore. It was good for the industrial age. For the information age, you’ve
got to go to community college.” Emanuel added, “It has bipartisan support.”
