Arne Duncan: “I believe that the best solutions are reached when every stakeholder has a voice and an opportunity to be heard.”

Our budget includes $75 billion in mandatory funding to work with States to make voluntary preschool available to all low- and moderate-income 4-year-olds.

I wanted to be held accountable for results, but I wanted the flexibility to spend that money as I saw fit.

I want to thank Senator Alexander and Senator Murray for their good faith bipartisan work to try to fix the broken No Child Left Behind.

I think we need to pay teachers significantly more.