Lisa Guernsey, Director of New America's Early Education Initiative, talks with Christina Satkowski, author of The Next Step in Systems-Building: Early Childhood Councils and Federal Efforts to Promote Policy Alignment in Early Childhood, a paper that provides a 50-state survey on how -- and whether -- states are making progress in establishing early learning councils, which are mandated by federal law to be established in each state and the District of Columbia.

Satkowski explains how these councils have already become an active ingredient in states' plans to deliver high-quality care and education to children from birth to age 5.