Advocates Call for Expansion of Early Childhood Education in California

Experts are increasingly convinced that improving education means starting the learning process before a child reaches kindergarten. A group of California business, education and health leaders will release a comprehensive report today on how to create a “child-centered” system of early learning in the state. That report calls for an additional $5 billion dollars a year to provide free preschool for every child in the state and money to supplement daycare for all children under five. In this Forum hour, we learn more about the proposal.