The Benefits of Free, High Quality Priest School Are Hard to Nort

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President johnson launched head start, a government funded pree school programme for America's poorest children. The original head a programme was only an eight weeks summer programme. To day, over 50 years after it was launched, headstar offers services for the full school year. And studies show that children who go through the programme have a higher probability of finishing high school and a higher probability to go to college.

President Biden wants to give Americans four more years of free school: two years of pre-K and two of community college. In a two-part series, Today, Explained’s Haleema Shah explores the challenges of expanding public education.

Today’s show was reported by Haleema Shah, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Efim Shapiro, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.

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