His order -- which puts 6,000 more at-risk 4-year-olds into classrooms and reduces class sizes statewide for kindergartners and first-graders -- will cost the state $54 million this year. That comes to $9,000 per child. It would be cheaper to just mail the parents a check and have them go to a private preschool.
Wish they'd send me a $9000 check to put my 4yr old in pre-school. I'd have a nice hunk of change to contrib to her college fund...