Arne Duncan: “I share your concern about where the Federal Government has been inflexible or commandeered local budgets.”

Well, it's unbelievably disturbing and infuriating, and obviously, she is lying. Obviously, there's no science there. And not only is she fundamentally dishonest, she is dangerous.

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.

Our request includes a $1 billion increase for Title I to help close resource and equity gaps.

To say you have to spend money in this way, that prices are fixed, just simply didn't make sense.