EarlyStories - Commentary on Coverage of Children’s Learning (Pre-K Expansion in OK Dead for now)

Welcome to EarlyStories, a weblog by Richard Lee Colvin and Liz Willen at the Hechinger Institute on Education and the Media, Teachers College, Columbia University. It contains commentary on coverage of issues (in newspapers, magazines, television, radio, blogs) related to early childhood education, broadly defined, inside and outside of schools, preschools, subway cars, living rooms and the dining table.

Pre-K Expansion in OK Dead for now

Posted by Richard Lee Colvin on February 23, 2007 10:43 AM

Oklahoma Gov. Brad Henry's plan to expand his state's highly regarded pre-k program for 4 year olds to serve 3 year olds has stalled in the state Legislature. Republicans on the Senate Appropriations Committee all voted against it, with their leader saying they had successfully blocked an expansion of government. Henry called it "pure politics."