Arne Duncan: “The best thing we can do for children is give them access to high-quality early childhood programs.”

You and I know that by virtually every measure, sadly, Mississippi ranks near the bottom nationally--you know, 48th, 49th, 50th on many, many measures, and I just do not think that is fair to your children or to your State or to your…

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.

They're trying to have it both ways. So they're bending to the pressure, the political pressure that they're feeling from him.

The absence of leadership at the federal level has had a devastating impact on kids' education in the spring, and now going into the fall and that hasn't changed.