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California voters delivered a well-deserved defeat to Proposition 82, a ballot referendum that would have created a multibillion-dollar program for universal preschool in the state.(The Week)(Brief article)

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California voters delivered a well-deserved defeat to Proposition 82, a ballot referendum that would have created a multibillion-dollar program for universal preschool in the state. What was expected to be a close call turned out to be a landslide, with support for the measure barely topping 39 percent at the polls. How heartening that, in a state so blue, voters were able to see through the proposal's empty promises. Like so many other ...

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