First lady Jill Biden, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin make stop at Alabama's Maxwell Air Force Base

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Source: AL.com

Updated: Sep. 13, 2024, 5:28 p.m.|Published: Sep. 13, 2024, 4:22 p.m.


First lady Jill Biden was in Montgomery on Friday to visit a new pre-kindergarten program at Maxwell Air Force Base that she said could be a blueprint for early education efforts across the nation.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin joined Biden on the visit to Alabama to draw attention to the Defense Department’s new universal preschool program for military families.

Biden said Maxwell and 80 other military bases are offering programs to give preschoolers the foundation to become strong readers and achieve academic success. The school at Maxwell is about one month old. Biden said she worked as a reading specialist for high school students and learned the pitfalls for students who fall behind in the earliest grades, according to the prepared remarks for the first lady released by the White House.

“If we want kids to succeed in school and their careers—if we want to set them on a lifelong path of learning—we need to invest in them from the very beginning,” Biden said. The Biden administration supports free, high-quality pre-kindergarten across America, the White House said.

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1. Wow we're giving attention to Alabama

Not exacty campaign attention, but still

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3. They had to redistrict so there is a House seat that is in play

Federal court declines to dismiss Alabama redistricting case after South Carolina ruling (article dated 7/15/24)

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2. I attended Department of Defense schools until high school.

I like to think they did pretty well. I don’t know about now, but back in the 70’s and 80’s, there was a strong emphasis on science, history, and civics.