Biden plan seeks to expand education, from pre-K to college
WASHINGTON (AP) As Democrats push ahead with President Joe Bidens $3.5 trillion rebuilding plan, theyre promising historic investments across the arc of an education from early childhood to college and beyond in what advocates describe as the most comprehensive package of its kind in decades.
The education provisions in Bidens Build Back Better proposal would serve as a bedrock for schooling opportunities for countless Americans and test the nations willingness to expand federal programs in far-reaching ways.
Equity is a focus, as it seeks to remove barriers to education that for decades have resulted in wage and learning disparities based on race and income. And by expanding early education and child care programs, it aims to bring back workers, especially women, who left jobs during the COVID-19 pandemic to look after children whose schools were closed.
All told, Americans would be entitled to two years of free preschool plus two years of free community college. Millions of families would be eligible for expanded child care subsidies. And there would be more federal financial aid for low-income college students.
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