The Democratic candidate for governor in Virginia is proposing "free" pre-school:
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Timothy M. Kaine vowed Tuesday to make preschool available to every Virginia 4-year-old, a costly but potentially popular promise three months before Election Day.
At a town meeting at a suburban Richmond elementary school, Kaine said that as governor he would implement Start Strong, a $300 million-a-year program to guarantee a year of school before kindergarten to all children whose parents choose to enroll them.
Beyond the politics of the move -- a new government program for the kids -- my first reaction was that this sounds an awful lot like Head Start. And we all know what a smashing success that has turned out to be.
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