Hillary Clinton Conjures the Wisdom of French Parents

On Monday at a YMCA in New Hampshire, presidential candidate Hillary Clinton sat in front of construction-paper octopuses and hand-prints and read Eric Carle’s The Very Hungry Caterpillar to a pre-kindergarten class. It was a fitting entrée to her campaign's first set of policy proposals: universal, high-quality preschool for every American four-year-old.

As Bloomberg’s Jennifer Epstein reported, the morning program was a way for Clinton to embrace “her new role as a grandmother and her longer-term one as a child advocate.” It may have called to mind a policy of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio: the introduction of universal pre-kindergarten in New York. (In April, Clinton appeared at an education center in Brownsville, New York, alongside New York City first lady Chirlane McCray to speak about early childhood care.)