On Thursday, Barack Obama told teachers in Decatur, GA that he was in favor of making school mandatory for children from the age of four, declaring, “The size of your paycheck shouldn’t determine your child’s future. So let’s fix this. Let’s make sure none of our kids start out the race of life a step behind.” Obama is proposing offering federal matching of state education funding if they institute his pre-school program. He also wants to expand the Early Head Start program.
Qualifications for the funding include: teachers would have to hold college degrees in certain categories related to education, restrictions on class size, and a government-approved curriculum. Obama was stumping for the program in Georgia specifically because the state started a program in 1995 that was to offer universal pre-kindergarten education….To Read More…..
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