Excellent thinking, gentlemen. Here in New Mexico, 70% of us voted in November to make New Mexico the first state in which early childhood education is a universal right. I encourage other states to do the same thing. If we don't help children from low-income families to read and develop other early-learning skills, they will be held back all their lives, diminishing us all. Universal pre-K is the most important policy change we can make.
Excellent thinking, gentlemen. Here in New Mexico, 70% of us voted in November to make New Mexico the first state in which early childhood education is a universal right. I encourage other states to do the same thing. If we don't help children from low-income families to read and develop other early-learning skills, they will be held back all their lives, diminishing us all. Universal pre-K is the most important policy change we can make.