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</p>While the federal government already spends as least $25 billion on the existing 69 preschool and child care programs, the Obama administration is calling for #70proposing $9.3 billion for a new Early Learning Challenge Grant. As <ahref="http://www.heritage.org/Research/Education/wm2643.cfm">we wrote last year, the Early Learning Challenge Grant fund would push states to spend more on preschool programs, when evidence is mounting that preschool programs arent delivering the benefits their proponents promise.<spanid="more-25263"></span>
Given the recent national evaluation showing that the nations <ahref="http://www.heritage.org/Research/Education/bg2363.cfm">45 year and $167 billion experiment with Head Start has been a failure, shouldnt the Obama administration be living up to their programs of funding what works by reforming rather than expanding federal spending on preschool?