High-quality early childhood education makes a difference: It increases academic attainment and pro-social behavior, positively affects health, and allows more parents to reap the benefits of work. Conservatives care about early education, but liberals have made headway with universal public pre-kindergarten (pre-K), an expensive proposition that expands the government's footprint with no guarantee of quality. The hefty price tag is one reason more communities have not scaled public preschool. States should provide parents of 3- and 4-year-olds education scholarship accounts, which could be used to pay for various private (including faith-based) and public early childhood education providers. To keep parents working, states should create tax incentives for early childhood programming that coincides with the workday.