Early childhood education is critical, particularly for low-income families. My Archbridge Institute colleague and Nobel Prize winner James Heckman has written extensively on this topic.

This is why the Trump administration’s proposed reforms to Head Start are so badly needed. In the real world, resources are not unlimited. We simply can’t afford to continue devoting increasing amounts of taxpayer funding to every program that we like. The national debt is rapidly approaching $40 trillion.

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So, how do we address the challenge of improving access to early childhood education without utilizing additional scarce taxpayer resources?

Proponents on both sides of the aisle have embraced deregulation as a solution. The truth is that Head Start regulations are currently much more burdensome than what most states impose........

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