Wednesday 24 June 2026
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How Not to Fix Early Childhood Education

The left wants universal preschool and childcare. Programs that serve the underprivileged work better—and add less to our debt burden.
How Not to Fix Early Childhood Education

The bipartisan agreement reached on infrastructure leaves out childcare. But the left is likely to continue to push for universal preschool and childcare as an extension of our public K-12 system.

“We have two very different systems in our country for teaching our little ones,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren said at a hearing last week on childcare (in which I was a witness).  “Do these two separate systems make sense given what the evidence says about the benefits of high quality early care?”

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