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Should the federal government fund Universal preschool?

Universal preschool is a proposal that would use funding from the federal government to provide school to children before they reach Kindergarten. In the current U.S. public education system government funded school is guaranteed to all children from kindergarten to 12th grade. number of U.S. states use state tax revenue to fund part-time and full-time preschool for children between the ages of 3 and 5. Half of the states that offer pre-K programs limit enrollment to low-income children. Proponents that preschool is too expensive for most American families and according to The Chicago Chi…  

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Yes
43%
No
41%
Yes
40%
No
10%
Yes, but funding should come from states instead of the federal government
3%
No, use a voucher system instead
6%
Yes, as long as parents also have the option to send their child to private school
1%
No, and all education should be privatized

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 @959K74L from North Carolina  answered…2yrs2Y

No, and all education should be nationalized.

 @95K7BH7 from North Carolina  answered…2yrs2Y

No, but all education should be nationalized.

 @8NS2CDJ from Minnesota  answered…4yrs4Y

I think it should be offered, but parents have a choice to send their child, keep them home, or send to private school.

 @8FPNF73 from Indiana  answered…4yrs4Y

It should be the parents' decision to send their child to preschool. Also, the state and the federal government should partially fund preschool and offer aid for low-income families.

 @iandromidas from Colorado  answered…4yrs4Y

No. Preschool is optional therefore at the decision of each parent

 @9GBWNDD from Pennsylvania  answered…1yr1Y

No, and I was taught in K-12 education that making babies got you suspended. End all contradictory support for baby-making. We do not need babies, period.

 @9D6QLWZ from Texas  answered…2yrs2Y

No, use a voucher system instead and all education should be privatized

 @9S2PDWW from Virginia  answered…7mos7MO

I agree with the proposal, but it’s important to Ensure that this is not the only route parents have to go down. State should also incentivize parents to homeschool their children until the time comes for them to go to public school. And if This is a Practice that the American people wish to go down, it should be funded by the state governments, managed by the local governments, and there should be the choice of private preschools available for parents to choose

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Trump's Deportation Storm: America Braces for Mass Exodus of Immigrants

For months, immigration advocates have been planning for the possibility of Donald Trump’s return to the White House. Now, their worst fears have arrived.Immigrants’ rights groups have spent the last year preparing for a second Trump term and an overhaul of the nation’s immigration system, analyzing Trump’s proposals, drafting legal briefs, coordinating messaging and organizing aid for immigrants and asylum seekers. They responded to Trump’s victory with alarm and vowed to put up a fight, setting the stage for four more years of contentious court battles with his administration.Some are already preparing to push current leadership at the Department of Homeland Security to take steps to stymie the incoming Trump team, particularly on immigrant detention and the use of AI in enforcement.“We should expect to see the devastation of immigrant communities all over the country. We should expect to see family separation,” said Kica Matos, the president of the National Immigration Law Center. “It is entirely possible that he will try to use the military to carry out deportations, so that means that Americans all over the country will see the military engaging in enforcement against civilian populations, which is horrifying.”Trump, after winning a historic victory on a platform of turbo-charged immigration enforcement, has said he will conduct mass deportations at a scale never before seen. Immigrant advocates have warned this would be expensive and inhumane, separating families and wrecking communities. The president-elect has also vowed to build huge detention camps, hire thousands more border agents, funnel military spending toward border security and invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to expel suspected members of drug cartels and criminal gangs without court hearings.He has also said he would end “catch-and-release” — allowing migrants to remain free, often with monitoring, while they await immigration court hearings — and restore a policy from his first term requiring asylum seekers to remain in Mexico while their cases are processed. And he has dodged questions about whether he would try to bring back family separation.

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