Pelosi’s Preschool Amnesia [CaliforniaRepublic]

CaliforniaRepublic ^ | 6/28/07 | Lance Izumi

[ParsifalCA]

Does House Speaker Nancy Pelosi remember what happened in the 2006 elections? She represents the people’s republic of San Francisco, but she must recall that the rest of California overwhelmingly rejected ex-actor/director Rob Reiner’s government-run universal preschool initiative last June. Yet, at her recent children’s summit, Pelosi ushered in a parade of notables advocating for more government preschool.

In her remarks at the summit, Pelosi pushed for more government spending on early childhood initiatives, saying: “We know that these investments in our children today pay off many-fold in later years.” To back up this claim, keynote speaker James Heckman, a Nobel-prize-winning economist, argued that evidence from the oft-cited Perry preschool program in Michigan from the early 1960s shows that at-risk children enrolled in a high-quality preschool program later earn more money, own houses, and avoid welfare and jail at greater rates than at-risk children who didn’t attend preschool. However, in the debate over last year’s Reiner initiative, the arguments of Pelosi and Heckman were found badly wanting. [more]

[EagleUSA]

Liberal academia, always looking to expand its tentacle reaching into the minds of little children, will continue pushing to CONTROL YOUR CHILDREN -— cradle to grave. The Marxist touch. If I had to raise my kids again, they would NEVER get near a government school, or any part of it, no matter what the cost. The public can only blame itself really, for what it has let its government education system turn into.

Your kids won’t be able to add two and two, and they will never know who Thomas Jefferson was, but they will sure know how to treat queers....welcome to LIBERAL ACADEMIA in California.

[AngelesCrestHighway]

Pelosi pushed for more government spending on early childhood initiatives, saying: “We know that these investments in our children today pay off many-fold in later years....Like what? Reading, writing and arithmetic or gender bending gay classes?