Terry Moe, a professor of political science at Stanford University, thinks Mr Draper should have opted for a limited programme for poor children.
In 2011, according to the National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER), 39 states had state-funded pre-school initiatives (not including Head Start, the federal programme for poor children).
It would be a pity if they became just another government programme for the poor.
Head Start, the government's main pre-school programme for the poor, could be dramatically expanded.
More states are asking insurers to run Medicaid, the programme for the poor.
It seeks to repeal President Barack Obama's healthcare reform law and cut spending on Medicaid, a government health programme for the poor, by giving control of its distribution to states.
Worse, they say, there is too little emphasis on encouraging the sorts of private financial markets that would do more to spur investment in poor areas than any government programme.
And it is tackling the long-term causes of child poverty through policies aimed at pre-school children in poor areas, and a new programme designed to cut teenage pregnancy.
But analysts say a crucial part of the programme is to get poor communities in Rio to regain trust in their police forces, which were widely seen as violent and corrupt.
The poor performance of Welsh students in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) results formed the backdrop for the debate.
Professor David Egan of the University of Wales Institute Cardiff (UWIC) said that Wales' poor performance in the OECD's Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) was cause for concern.
Speaking to the Today programme he said that putting poor people in expensive areas does not create mixed communities but rather "parallel" ones and explained that if more social housing is built, "we can pepper pot it amongst other communities".
He said that expansion would mean shifting the programme's focus away from poor children.
Many mandatory programmes like the Social Security pension programme, Medicaid healthcare for the poor, food aid, and others will not be affected.
These include moving to beef up foreign investment, improving public welfare with cash hand-outs for civil servants and the poor, as well as pushing his 1Malaysia programme prioritising national unity.
America's poor get their health care through Medicaid, a programme funded jointly by the federal government and the states.
In a statement, care and support minister Norman Lamb said the Panorama programme "continues to highlight inappropriate and poor quality care".
Chief among these is the increased scope of Bolsa Familia, a programme of cash transfers that benefits 11m poor families, rewarding them if their children go to school and get vaccinated.
For Americans who lack access to such bodies, there is eventually a safety net (whose effectiveness varies between states) for those who are old enough to qualify for Medicare, and poor enough to qualify for Medicaid, another federal programme.
India has trained poor countries' civil servants for decades, in a programme called Indian Technical and Economic Co-operation (ITEC).
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Committee chairman Margaret Hodge said inefficient funding systems and poor cost control had driven up the cost of the programme.
One reason for the poor productivity performance is the endless delays in the massive programme designed to introduce electronic patient records across the NHS. The investment was supposed to transform care by providing a seamless network of patient information that would bind together care in GP practices and hospitals.
On May 28th it was still agonising over whether even to continue disbursements from a loan programme agreed in 1995, given Russia's poor record on meeting fiscal targets.
Dame Anne Begg, chairman of the committee behind the report, said the programme's performance in its first 14 months was poor but there were signs of improvement for mainstream jobseekers.
Given that limited access to quality ECE has negative effects on child development which, in turn, undermines child performance at primary and post-primary school, The Mother-Child Home Education Programme (MOCEP) was initiated in 2000 to empower poor families to provide early childhood literacy training to their children through a home-based intergenerational literacy training approach.
He made a poor director, and some have suggested that he in effect sabotaged the programme.
And, because poor families move home frequently and often do not have telephones, the programme directors have had a difficult time locating children who are awarded scholarships.
Years later, I joined Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor (WSUP) in Bangalore, India to support their slum sanitation programme, seeking to demonstrate viable models for government investment.
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Her alternative to quotas: a broad affirmative-action programme including scholarships and subsidised pre-vestibular courses for blacks and poor whites.
Mr Gove is sounding keener on American-style Charter schools than on the Swedish model, in part because the Charter programme has a clearer record of helping to transform education for the poor.
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