especially when the evidence suggests that it is the quality of ECE, not the time spent in it, that determines its effect on children's development. In extending subsidies to two-year-olds, the Green Party is simply responding to the reality of parents' lives, which is that very large numbers of them are already enrolling their two-year-olds in ECE, but struggling with the financial burden that imposes.
This example text from a political party manifesto is sceptical towards state expenditure on education, for example in favour of study fees or private schools