John Kline: “Every child - regardless of where they come from or how much money their parents make - should receive an excellent…”

As Chairman Kline himself explained when the regulation was proposed, it threatens to impose a multibillion regulatory tax on schools across the country.

The law explicitly prohibits the secretary from interfering, yet that is precisely what your proposal would do.

You can trust that we will abide by the letter of the law as we move forward.

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…