The old "lets keep voting on it until we win and then never vote on it again" trick.
And “old” is the operative word. Here in sad sack CA the legislature has — in every session for the last 15 years — taken up legislation that would either make Kindergarten mandatory, or extend “public education” the the preschool level. They have been repudiated at every turn by public outcry against both ideas, but persist in resurrecting them again, and again.
I’m intent upon finding the political equivalent of a wooden stake to drive through their black hearts.