John Kline actually said...
During the eight long years our team spent working to pass this bill, no topic was more hotly debated than that of annual testing. . . In the end, we arrived at a fair and sensible compromise in the law: Keep the requirement that the same academic assessments [be] used to measure the achievement of all public elementary school and secondary school students in the state. . . [and be flexible in other areas]. . . However, Arizona and New Hampshire recently passed laws that violate ESSA by permitting individual school districts to choose which assessments to administer . . . such violations undermine ESSA in its entirety.
Context
John Kline emphasizes the importance of uniform academic assessments under ESSA and criticizes states for violations.
07/31/2017