I don’t write someone else’s testimony, except when I do.

I attended the Baltimore Educational Equity Summit of Teach for America last Saturday.

At the concluding session, I got into a conversation with a kindergarten teacher and told her that I was working on a bill to expand early childhood education (pre-K).

“The benefits of pre-K are evident in a kindergarten class by the end of the first week,” she replied.

“Will you testify on this bill?” I asked.  “Yes,” she said.

Then I told her, “What you just said will be the first sentence of your testimony.”

Senator Bill Ferguson and I met yesterday to discuss the legislation.  We’re calling it “Race to the Tots,” modeling it on President Obama’s education reform grant program, “Race to the Top.”

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I also met a TFA member who’s teaching science at Cross Country Elementary School.

“Have you been there?” he asked me.

“I went there,” I responded.  “I was in kindergarten the year it opened – 1955.”

I’ll be there again on Election Day.  Can you volunteer for two hours that day?  Please let me know.

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Last week, I wrote about the implications for abortion rights if Gov. Romney wins.  The fate of choice and other issues before the Supreme Court are discussed in “The Court and the Future of Everything You Hold Dear” by Jeffrey Rosen.