California spent two-billion dollars last year providing preschool and childcare to over one-million low-income kids. Childcare's expensive, so without subsidies, these kids would miss out and their parents wouldn't be able to work.
At Heavenly Vision Educational Center in Compton, 4 year-old Charlenne De Leon instructs the teacher Merleen Wade how to build a water slide out of lego blocks during free play.
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