Quality early learning is a critical issue that President Obama and members of our committee have been highlighting for years.

Great child care and early education investments at federal, state, and local levels are needed because low-income working parents lack access, can't afford services, or don't have enough good choices.

You don't know or they are not providing the data yet.

Yet there is growing consensus that federal investment needs to focus on relevant, rigorous, and high-quality CTE programs.

I want to join you in thanking the panelists, Mr. Chairman. I think that this panel not only is helpful this morning but I think has great potential in helping us as we rethink this Act.

It is vital that we maintain and strengthen career and technical education programs.

Today's hearing will examine the critical role of career and technical education in preparing our nation's students for success in college and career.

I think we have a wonderful positive confluence here.

This may be the most in-depth discussion we have had of adjunct professors in the history of the committee.

I think it raises really serious issues about how people are standing in this pecking order, and how arbitrary that pecking order is.

And, yet, when we get down to the people who are teaching, as you point out, the vast majority of the classes, all of a sudden, we got to skimp.