EditorialWorkers with the Makaw Tribe finish a preschool away from the water in Neah Bay, on the Makah Reservation in Clallam County, Wash., on Sept. 20, 2022. (Tailyr Irvine/The New York Times)
EditorialSocial workers, instructional coordinators, educators, and parents rally in support of New York City’s free universal prekindergarten program outside Tweed Courthouse in Lower Manhattan, on Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2022. (Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times)
EditorialFirst lady Jill Biden and Maria de Lourdes Alcivar de Lasso, left, the first lady of Ecuador, visit a classroom at a child development center, a preschool for children ages 1-3 from low income households, in Quito, Ecuador, May 19, 2022. (Erin Schaff/The New York Times)
EditorialGrazyna Swiezak, the director of the Zielony Dinek preschool in Zabki, Poland, just outside Warsaw, April 11, 2022. (Maciek Nabrdalik/The New York Times)
EditorialEsleydy Cabada, a preschool teacher and community solar program subscriber, in Perth Amboy, N.J., March 22, 2022. (Tony Cenicola/The New York Times)
EditorialFela Barclift, once a teacher at The East, at Little Sun People, her Afrocentric preschool in Brooklyn, Dec. 2, 2021. (Laylah Amatullah Barrayn/The New York Times)
EditorialFirst lady Jill Biden, left, visits a preschool at the James Rushton Early Learning Center in Birmingham, Ala., on Friday, April 9, 2021. (Anna Moneymaker/The New York Times)
EditorialPresident-elect Joe Biden speaks to reporters on Nov. 19, 2020, in Wilmington, Del., as Vice President-elect Kamala Harris looks on. (Ruth Fremson/The New York Times)
EditorialPresident-elect Joe Biden speaks to reporters on Nov. 19, 2020, in Wilmington, Del., as Vice President-elect Kamala Harris looks on. (Ruth Fremson/The New York Times)
EditorialGraduate student Julie Rhines, 24 from Erie, Pa., helps with crafts during a therapy program for preschool children with hearing loss at Edinboro University on March 20, 2018, in Edinboro, Pa. (Dustin Franz/The New York Times)
EditorialWhen Lina Prieto won a spot at a prestigious university for herself, and in the university’s preschool for her daughter, Luna, she felt she’d secured their future until the coronavirus pandemic derailed her plans. (Federico Rios/The New York Times)
EditorialChristina Kerby, a Westerdam passenger, at her home in Alameda, Ca. on Feb. 28, 2020. Kerby said some parents at her daughter’s preschool have been calling the school director, concerned about the virus. (Jim Wilson/The New York Times)