It passed in Illinois - CHICAGO - May 7, 2006 – Governor Rod R. Blagojevich joined children, parents, and early education advocates today at Christopher House on Chicago’s North Side to applaud the Illinois General Assembly for passing a budget that provides historic funding increases for education in Illinois. The budget includes $45 million for the Governor’s Preschool for All plan, which puts Illinois on the path to providing high-quality preschool to every three and four-year-old child in the state.... http://www.illinois.gov/PressReleases/PressReleasesListShow.cfm?RecNum=4834 Greg Boozell gboozell@juno.com -- Doug Henwood wrote: ...> universal free preschool, Potentially popular, if you can get someone to pay for it. Didn't this lose in Calif, even though it was going to be funded by lightly moistening the fat boys?