No Child Left Behind was a bill that I voted against because I believed in parental control, I believed in local control, and I believed in State control. I want to deconstruct the Education Department and return the rights back to the States so the States can focus on what they need to do, but more importantly that the Federal Government can focus on what it needs to do, trade policy, national security and those types of things.
The speaker discusses his opposition to the No Child Left Behind Act and advocates for state control over education.
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There’s maybe been some progress, but not the significant amount of progress that says, ‘OK, we know exactly where we’re going, now let’s fill out the details'
We've got a few little issues to work out," Hoekstra said. "We've got to figure out this bridge thing. We've got to figure out some tariffs.… We're going to get over this. We're going to get through it."
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We have a bridge that has come in significantly over budget and has come in significantly later than originally forecast. That has changed the business model.
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