Philadelphia wants to create a universal pre-kindergarten program, not unlike the one Oklahoma adopted years ago. It’s part of a growing movement nationwide in favor of universal pre-K at both the municipal and state level.
As part of the PBS Newshour’s Tuesday education series “Making the Grade,” special correspondent Cat Wise examined how deeply conservative Oklahoma’s idea that’s typically popular on the left became a model for other states to emulate.
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