President Obama will unveil details of his proposal to expand preschool programs during a speech in Decatur, Ga., on Thursday at 1:20 p.m. ET.
Obama first proposed universal early education programs for preschool children during Tuesday’s State of the Union address.
The president said he was committed to “working with states to make high-quality preschool available to every child in America.”
Obama will visit a pre-kindergarten classroom at College Heights Early Childhood Learning Center in Decatur. In his speech at the Decatur Community Recreation Center, the president will “propose a series of new investments that will establish a continuum of high-quality early learning for a child,” according to the White House.
Those measures include more funding for Head Start, a federal program for low-income preschool children. Obama will also announce a “federal-state partnership” to provide matching funds for preschool education for all low-income four-year-old children, as well as measures to establish “quality benchmarks” for states and efforts to expand the availability of full-day kindergarten programs.
The visit to Decatur is the second stop on a three-city tour as Obama looks to promote his second-term agenda.
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