Lamar Alexander actually said...

It sounds to me like a national school board for preschool education, which is one way to do it, but that is the mandating way, not the enab...

Let us see what you can do with this. Take this money and combine it with yours, combine it with private money and we will be the enablers. ...

A lot of the debate in Washington is between, what I would say, the mandaters and the enablers, and it is not always a partisan divide.

There is not any question about whether early learning is important. That question is: what is the best, next step?