Who should pay for preschool for the middle class?
“Here’s something you probably already know: High-quality preschool provides academic and social benefits for low-income children. Here’s something you may not know: Preschool provides benefits, albeit smaller ones, for middle-class kids too. And yet, though most countries with developed economies offer public preschool as a standard benefit to all of their 4-year-olds, America does not. Instead, low-income parents here scramble for scarce public spots while middle-income parents scrounge to pay for increasingly costly private preschool.”