President Obama, following his call for preschool for “every child in America,” will visit a pre-kindergarten class at College Heights Early Childhood Learning Center in Decatur, Georgia, this afternoon.
Ironically, the students are on spring break this week, according to the school’s website. But parents have been invited to bring their kids to school today for the president’s visit, according to a letter to parents obtained by CNN.
After the classroom visit, Obama will speak at the Decatur Community Recreation Center to plug his plan for “high-quality preschool for every child.”
The White House plan includes “continuum of high-quality early learning for a child, beginning at birth and continuing to age 5,” the Associated Press reports. Families with an income 200 percent or less of the federal poverty level would get government-funded preschool, and all 50 states and the federal government would pay, AP says.
Obama first outlined that goal in his State of the Union speech:
