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U.S. Stimulus Package Gives Boost to Spending on Early Education

Lindsey Burke

School Reform News / The Heartland Institute / April 01, 2009

Education projects outlined in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 were allocated $100 billion, a portion of which will directly fund early ... (read more)

Government-Funded Preschool Is No Solution, Researchers Say

Jim Waters

School Reform News / The Heartland Institute / March 01, 2008

Proponents of government-funded preschool programs, such as the one being considered in Missouri (see story on this page), often portray research as presenting ... (read more)

New Jersey Preschool Vouchers Show Value of Public-Private Choice

Tom Moran

School Reform News / The Heartland Institute / February 01, 2008

To the Rev. Reginald Jackson, head of the Black Ministers' Council, the remarkable success of New Jersey's private preschools holds an obvious lesson. We ... (read more)

California, Massachusetts Reject Universal Preschool Initiatives

Lisa Snell

School Reform News / The Heartland Institute / October 01, 2006

The idea of large-scale, state-run, "free" preschool programs stalled in two states and passed in one so far this year. California voters and Massachusetts ... (read more)

Is Universal Preschool Beneficial? An assessment of RAND Corporation’s Analysis and Proposals for California

Christopher F. Cardiff and Edward Stringham

Policy Study 345 / Reason Foundation / May 01, 2006

California Pre-K Plan in Trouble

Neal McCluskey

School Reform News / The Heartland Institute / April 01, 2006

Californians won't vote until June on television-actor-turned-movie-director Rob Reiner's initiative to create statewide, government-funded, universal preschool. ... (read more)

The Politics of Preschool

Christopher Conte

Governing Magazine / Congressional Quarterly, Inc. / June 01, 2005

Florida's Voluntary Pre-K Program Gives Parents New Options

Jenny Rothenberg

School Reform News / The Heartland Institute / October 01, 2005

One of the nation's largest early-learning school choice initiatives kicked off August 15 when more than 90,000 four-year-olds headed to class in Florida's ... (read more)

Push for Universal Preschool Grows

Lisa Snell

School Reform News / The Heartland Institute / October 01, 2005

The Institute for America's Future and the Center for American Progress, co-chaired by Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano (D), on August 23 called for $325 billion ... (read more)

Vermont Considers Preschool Programs in Public Schools

Aaron Atwood

School Reform News / The Heartland Institute / July 01, 2005

School choice supporters in Vermont scrambled to shore up support for private preschool providers in early June, trying to keep the state Senate from overriding ... (read more)