The report details Minnesota's early childhood education (ECE) activities from 2003 to the present, with a particular focus on the role of the business community. Although the report illustrates how fact-based information, partnered with dedicated and well-connected people and organized task forces, creates change, there remain components of Minnesota's ECE reform plans that some thought would quickly become statewide, such as scholarships for low-income children to attend high-quality child care, remain in pilot phases. Lessons learned include: (1) Research reports can be a catalyst for change; (2) The business community can be engaged by efforts that use their language and underscore the economic/workforce development and "market failure" sides of the issue; (3) Successful coalitions are bipartisan and gender-balanced; (4) Public funds can come with red tape and may be rejected in favor of expediency; and (5) Pilot projects may be more realistic than widespread policy implementation. (Contains 23 footnotes.)