Transparency is absolutely critical.
Making sure that we don't return to those days is clearly in our national security interests.
We have had timelines. We have had troop caps. We have also consistently exceeded those troop caps and consistently gone...
how do we get to the point where we can reduce our commitment in Afghanistan so that it is not an open-ended commitment ...
We felt it was important to create those three distinct categories because schools do struggle in different ways and nee...
I look forward to hearing from the State Chiefs about their progress in implementing our landmark education law.
I hope we make the right decisions here.
I hope that today with the President's visit he will make a full declaration of emergency for the entire island.
Well, I feel like if I cannot convince a guy who had a TV show called The Apprentice to be for apprenticeships, then I d...
ESSA is basically a civil rights law. It requires the Federal Government to play a key role in the oversight of states a...
The only reason the Federal Government is really involved in education is for civil rights purposes...
the law is not punitive. It is not about punishing schools. It is about providing resources to support students in those...
The Holy Grail is finding more fair ways to pay teachers more for teaching well.
If you allow practices like that, you are not promising equality of opportunity in the education to all children.
The bipartisan leadership of Tennessee's own Sen. Alexander and Sen. Patty Murray on the reauthorization of the Elementa...
I think the Department does need to improve its state plan submission feedback process so we know states are complying.
The reason I supported overturning it was because we had specific provisions in the law which prohibited the U.S. Depart...
The TSA Modernization Act would give airports the ability to train and deploy canine teams.