Al Franken actually said...

"Early childhood, to me, seems to be sort of the best answer to that for kindergarten and first grade teachers."

"I think that's something that we need to be talking a lot about here on this committee."

"What this would do is create a competitive grant program to recruit and train high caliber principals."

"we absolutely need to fix what's not working about the law. What we shouldn't try to do is get rid of it."