In Florida a new law requires all publically-funded preschools to play the classics for their kids.
Since the infrastructure already exists, it makes more sense to give low-income families preschool vouchers to attend private preschools.
We could allow private preschools to become charters, and we could fund the creation of public preschools as well.
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Every year the competition to get a spot at America's best preschools intensifies.
Government rules would undoubtedly make some of the existing programs out-of-compliance (especially since so many preschools are associated with religious institutions).
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Some have criticized those studies, saying the preschools were too well-funded and fussed over for their successes to be replicated elsewhere.
Some schools that are preschool-only programs have comparably lower tuitions than preschools affiliated with elementary schools, and some schools get funding from the government.
As the economist James Heckman has demonstrated, successful preschools don't increase the intelligence of toddlers or endow them with new knowledge they take to kindergarten.
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Forbes.com hunted down the most expensive preschools in the biggest urban areas across the country using local school guidebooks, Web sites and experts to compare tuitions and programs.
Authors Victoria Humpme and Clare Saling detail the misplaced assumptions that hold back thousands of families from getting their children into the 17 non-sibling spots at good preschools.
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On the other hand, there is already a pretty solid system of private preschools and it would be enormously expensive to try to crowd these out with new public preschools.
As for intellectual advantages, parents soak their babies in Mozart with dubious effect, put a toy computer in the crib, elbow their way into the best preschools to speed them on their path to Harvard.
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