Either this discordant plan is a front for public school expansionism, bent on adding another grade or two to its current thirteen, and adding the staff (and dues - paying union members) that would accompany such growth, or it's a cynical calculation: only by appealing to the middle - class
desire for taxpayers to underwrite the
routine child - care needs of
working parents will any movement occur on the pre-K front, and the heck with the truly disadvantaged youngsters who need more than that strategy will yield.