Lynn Campbell of the Des Moines Register has a good comprehensive story about legislative proposals in Iowa to increase the state's investment in pre-kindergarten so that the program eventually serves 90% of 4 year olds. The story gives a good sense of how the new proposal fits into the existing pre-kindergarten landscape. It offers the reactions of parents, some of whom worried about the quality of state-funded programs. And Lynn even put the Iowa proposal into a national and international context. It's a model for journalists to emulate. Only quibble is that the story does not say how much money would be spent per child, though it does say the amount would be similar to current public school spending. Hard to know whether it would be enough to pay for a high quality program.