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On the recordApril 9, 2014
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 enabling way.
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Lamar Alexander
Republican · Tennessee

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Alexander critiques the prescriptive nature of preschool education requirements.

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