I commend Chairman Kline for offering a bill that acknowledges and respects that it is the state and local leaders who a...
Thankfully, states have not waited for the federal government to act on ESEA and we have acted on our own to advance mea...
We are proud to stand with the voices of opposition to these bills.
As long as the federal government spends tax dollars to fund public education there must be accountability for how those...
Congress must empower states also to define and lead education reform efforts, while limiting the federal role to suppor...
Why should we have to go through all that effort, time and expense just to be able to act like an actual state?
Reauthorization is crucial to providing the nation's schools with relief from current law, which is both broken and lack...
We urgently need Congress to reauthorize the ESEA law because for the past 10 years American schools have lived under a ...
Again, I want to thank Chairman Kline for these proposals to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1...
The stakes couldn't be higher.
Accountability measures must be transparent, fair, and use multiple measures of evidence of growth.
We acknowledged No Child Left Behind's shortcomings and convened a series of hearings in which dozens of witnesses descr...
For the sake of our children, we must continue working toward a consensus.
No one said rewriting a law as influential as the Elementary and Secondary Education Act would be easy.
This is an issue that resonates with me. We are trying very hard to move the VAWA reauthorization to the floor.
Senator Cornyn and I worked on a prescription take-back to try to make it easier for people to get things out of their m...
We have received testimony in the record that suggests that female officers may not be getting bulletproof vests that fi...
I think it is important that we keep faith, that we not change things around during the middle of a deployment.
