That Associated Press story from last week providing a national wrapup of the growing state investment in pre-kindergarten based on the latest NIEER report continues to have legs. Each day my Google alert for pre-kindergarten turns up two or three uses of the story. It was just posted on CNN.Com here.

Shows how even in this local, local news world, at a time when news gurus are talking favorably about the contributions of average joes and janes with a computer and a cell phone camera, and are predicting the demise of Mainsteam Media, an old school news organ like AP can have a big impact.