school district, every state should make that decision on their own.

24 states have at least one school district using a shortened week.

Our family moved to live near a better school district for our children.

Not every state will win, and not every school district will be happy with the results.

And if you want to learn more about Google Classroom add ons, please make sure to check the description below where I have several links to different materials that you can use either for yourself or you can share with teachers in your school district or just other teachers that you know that might benefit from it.

With this one piece of one sentence removed, Joe was proposing a universal program. But to catch that, you'd need to read the bill closely. And Joe didn't say, this is the bill that creates universal pre-k, even though that's exactly what it was. What he said was, this is the bill that keeps four-year-olds out of kindergarten, and it's voluntary for everybody, and I sat down. The bill also said school districts could use their funding to contract with existing early child care providers. They could get state funding to start a four-year-old program and use it to hire early childhood education programs already in place. It, of course, would have to meet the standards, and I did not explain to them that it was going to be Head Start. But since the bill didn't seem to threaten private child care's four-year-old clientele, and very few others fully understood it anyway, no one who actually understood the bill told lawmakers to vote no. If a lobbyist does not come into your office and explain this law and why you should vote no on it, the legislator doesn't have any help except me. It passed the House 99-0. Once the word got out about free, high-quality pre-k, Oklahoma parents jumped at the opportunity to enroll their four-year-olds in their local elementary school. It got to where they started lining up in the early, early hours of the morning so that they could be in their neighborhood school. Part of it was they needed child care. Andy and Jana McKenzie taught in early childhood education in Tulsa public schools for 40 years. That's Jana conducting kindergarten assessments in that video back before Oklahoma had free pre-k. These two were instrumental in setting up the existing pre-k program, including in forging the close partnership between Head Start and public schools still in place today. And I think parents very quickly realized that it was a great place for their child to be. Offering pre-k in Oklahoma school districts was and still is voluntary. But 27 years later, free high-quality education for four-year-olds is offered in public schools in every school district in Oklahoma. Because even though red states like Oklahoma don't generally support big social policies, there's nothing really controversial about it at this point.

I also want to thank Governor Shapiro and Senator Sanders and their partners at the Philadelphia Office of Emergency Management, Philadelphia Managing Director's Office, Philadelphia Fire Department, Philadelphia Police Department, Philadelphia Department of Licenses and Inspections, Philadelphia Streets Department, PICO, Philadelphia Gas Works, Philadelphia Department of Public Health, Philadelphia Department of Aviation, the School District of Philadelphia, Philadelphia Parks and Recreation, Philadelphia Commerce Department, Delaware Valley Intelligence Center, Free Library of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency, the Pennsylvania State Police, the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, the FBI, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, the Federal Aviation Administration, the American Red Cross, the Salvation Army, and the Fraternal Order of Police.

I've seen it in teachers in a near-bankrupt school district who vowed to keep teaching without pay.

And our school district is very underfunded.

If you've got a certain number of poor kids or you've got a certain number of disabled kids in your school district, there's a formula,