Senator Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, delivered keynote remarks at the release of the Brown Center’s annual Education Choice and Competition Index (ECCI) that chronicles how school choice is progressing in the nation’s largest school districts. Senior Fellow Russ Whitehurst, director of the Brown Center, introduced this year’s ECCI and moderated a Q&A period with Sen. Alexander.