The Senate's Budget and Taxation Committee and the House Ways and Means Committee held hearings on the bill.
Gov. Martin O'Malley has budgeted $4.3 million for the project. It would extend prekindergarten to children who are up to 300 percent of the federal poverty level.
Local school systems are currently required to offer public pre-K to 4-year-olds whose families are at or below 185 percent of federal poverty guidelines. In the 2012-13 school year, 26,402 children were enrolled in public school pre-K.
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The younger they can get access to them, the longer they can brainwash them.
Free daycare for the non working? I think it should be free daycare for the working moms
Is anyone else getting sick and tired of paying for someone elses mistake of sexual pleasure!
If you can't feed them then don't breed them.
Studies show programs like this make no difference in achievement after grade 3. It's giving a head start in a race to someone who isn't a runner. Like many after school programs, this is billed as if it's care for kids whose parents are working. Not so. The non-working parents are getting free daycare. It has to stop.
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