Understandably, many families have no choice but to use outside child care for their small children. However, that doesn’t mean the state must fund an entire system of universal early learning, or universal all-day kindergarten.

“A six year comparison of almost 35,000 children has shown that there has been no change in developmental levels of pupils entering primary school in this period, despite the introduction of several new early years’ initiatives over the past decade, new research from Durham University’s Curriculum, Evaluation and Management (CEM) Centre reveals.”