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Wednesday, April 8, 2009

State-Paid Preschool Takes Recession Hit


“One of the most drastic expansions of public education in recent American history unfolded quietly in this decade, as dozens of states added free pre-kindergarten classes to their traditional kindergarten to high school offerings. But the recession appears to have stalled the expansion of state-financed pre-kindergarten programs….” (New York Times, Wednesday)

Not all the news is bad.

FEE Timely Classic
“Children’s Real Enemy” by John Hood


  • Sheldon Richman is the former editor of The Freeman and a contributor to The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics. He is the author of Separating School and State: How to Liberate America's Families and thousands of articles.