Why all the cuts to early pre school programs?

     The reports keep coming out that show that early intervention, early education programs for pre-schoolers make a dramatic difference in their success.  That should have been a no brainer. The sooner you read to your child the better they are at reading. The more you work with them in terms of numbers, colors, letters and behavior, the better they do.

     So why do our N.C. legislators keep cutting the funding to those programs?  Why do they keep changing the eligibility  requirements?  The current legislators seem determine to make as many changes in education as they can possible make. They want to change the standards. They have voted to do away with Common Core. They want to cut teacher aids. They have created hundreds of chartered schools. They have just recently voted to allow the people being paid by the charter schools to be on the boards governing the charter schools.  For example, if a charter school is paying a company to provide janitorial services, it will be permitted for somebody from that company to be on the board of governors of that same chartered school.  Can you say conflict of interests?

     Early education, pre-school education has been the engine that has pushed our education forward. It takes 12 years for the results to show up.  The results was beginning to be visible, and now it is being killed.   Obviously these leaders did not get the benefit of good early education.