Unlike the administration's plan to offer temporary waivers that keep schools tied to a failing law, the proposals befor...
No one said rewriting a law as influential as the Elementary and Secondary Education Act would be easy.
For the sake of our children, we must continue working toward a consensus.
We acknowledged No Child Left Behind's shortcomings and convened a series of hearings in which dozens of witnesses descr...
The stakes couldn't be higher.
Again, I want to thank Chairman Kline for these proposals to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1...
We urgently need Congress to reauthorize the ESEA law because for the past 10 years American schools have lived under a ...
We are proud to stand with the voices of opposition to these bills.
I commend Chairman Kline for offering a bill that acknowledges and respects that it is the state and local leaders who a...
The current federal law is the only thing left that stands in the way preventing us from helping the children of Denver.
The combined effect of these bills is to rely on state-designed accountability systems, state-designed academic standard...
Granting more freedom from the federal mandates of NCLB does not mean lowering the bar for any child.
The sincere, ongoing efforts of this committee to reauthorize ESEA and improve America's schools over the last 4 years a...
The recently introduced Student Success Act and Encouraging Innovation and Effective Teachers Act represent a strong ste...
Thankfully, states have not waited for the federal government to act on ESEA and we have acted on our own to advance mea...
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...
Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
