President Barack Obama recently announced a new pre-kindergarten initiative that would add thousands of new children to Georgia classrooms, but pre-K slots in Georgia are largely filled and the state currently has a waiting list of about 8,000. Obama has proposed a federal-state partnership to expand high-quality preschool education to low-and-moderate income families at or below 200 percent of the poverty line. Currently, about 84,000 mostly low-income kids are enrolled in Georgia’s pre-K program, which is paid for by state lottery funds.