03/30/2009
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"We're overdue in doing our job and taking a look at the Elementary and Secondary Education Act and reauthorizing it for another period of time."
"ESEA flexibility is very much in keeping with that limited, narrow Federal role."
"I just would have denied Iowa's waiver request, also. It just wasn't good."
"The law's goal was to give families and the general public the data they needed to assess whether students in a given school were being taught the reading and math skills they needed to be successful."