{"id":1505439,"date":"2022-06-06T13:34:21","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T17:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1505439"},"modified":"2022-06-06T13:34:25","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T17:34:25","slug":"a-bad-idea-federalized-universal-preschool-carries-a-350-billion-price-tag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-bad-idea-federalized-universal-preschool-carries-a-350-billion-price-tag\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A Bad Idea\u2019: Federalized, Universal Preschool Carries A $350 Billion Price Tag"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fa-bad-idea-federalized-universal-preschool-carries-a-350-billion-price-tag%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1505439&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Universal preschool programs could carry price tags in the hundreds of billions of dollars, according to an analysis released last week by the University of Pennsylvania\u2019s Wharton School.<\/p>\n<p>The Penn Wharton Budget Model \u2014 a nonpartisan initiative that evaluates the fiscal impacts of public policy proposals \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/budgetmodel.wharton.upenn.edu\/issues\/2022\/6\/2\/total-cost-of-universal-pre-k\">determined<\/a> that a universal pre-kindergarten program for three-year-olds and four-year-olds would cost $351 billion over the course of ten years. President Joe Biden, according to his <a href=\"https:\/\/joebiden.com\/education\/\">2020 campaign platform<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/statements-releases\/2021\/04\/28\/fact-sheet-the-american-families-plan\/\">2021 American Families Plan<\/a>, favors a similar program.<\/p>\n<p>The Wharton analysis showed high costs for the initiative \u2014 even though it would have \u201cessentially no impact\u201d on long-run economic output. With each student, the federal government must spend $21,000 for facilities expansion, costing $41 billion before the program officially begins. Over ten years, it would also require $310 billion for operating expenses.<\/p>\n<p>Colleen Hroncich, a policy analyst with the Cato Institute\u2019s Center for Educational Freedom \u2014 told The Daily Wire that the plan is a \u201cbad idea\u201d altogether.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA federal program will come with burdensome mandates that will drive preferred providers out of business, increase costs, and worsen outcomes,\u201d she argued. \u201cThe type of providers that are likely to survive \u2014 as the Wharton study seems to recognize \u2014 are secular, center-based preschools modeled after K-12 schooling. Yet this model has no track record of success when implemented on a large scale.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hroncich wrote in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cato.org\/policy-analysis\/universal-preschool-lawmakers-should-approach-caution#previous-studies\">recent analysis of federal preschool programs<\/a> that a mere 31% of parents are currently opting for the center-based, K-12 model for their young children. She also pointed to a 2012 study from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services which found that the federal preschool program Head Start had little or no effect on student outcomes once the children hit third grade \u2014 despite spending $7,900 per child at the time. Today, the program costs more than $10,000 per child.<\/p>\n<p>Despite producing 0.21% more labor productivity per capita by 2053, the $351 billion universal program would increase economic output by 0% over the same time period \u2014 even as it increases government spending. \u201cAs the program\u2019s expenses continue to grow the debt, capital crowd-out reduces the productive capital of the economy, which offsets the increase in GDP from a larger labor supply,\u201d the Wharton analysis explains.<\/p>\n<p>Hroncich told The Daily Wire that the federal government has no constitutional authority to implement a universal preschool program \u2014 and should, therefore, \u201cget out of the preschool business altogether.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBarring that, any aid should be directed to families so they can choose the option that works best for their children,\u201d she remarked.<\/p>\n<p>Likewise, Jeremy Tate \u2014 the founder of the Classic Learning Test, a standardized exam geared toward students with Christian and classical educations \u2014 told The Daily Wire that \u201cschool choice options are even more important at the preschool level.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are countless amazing options, from Spanish immersion programs to Montessori, that uniquely benefit children under the age of six,\u201d he said. \u201cThe funding should go to parents and parents should be able to choose.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAny kind of compulsory pre-K program would only further deteriorate family bonds, which we know is the number one factor for academic success. School choice options encourage parents to take more ownership \u2014 which is exactly what we need.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Universal preschool programs could carry price tags in the hundreds of billions of dollars, according to an analysis released last week by the University of Pennsylvania\u2019s Wharton School. The Penn Wharton Budget Model \u2014 a nonpartisan initiative that evaluates the fiscal impacts of public policy proposals \u2014 determined that a universal pre-kindergarten program for three-year-olds &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":1505495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1505439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1505439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1505495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1505439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1505439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1505439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}