John Kline: “Middle-class families are being squeezed, and the last thing we should do is double-down on failed policies.”

Trial lawyers profit while workers are denied their fair share under a broken regulatory system.

[The Every Student Succeeds Act] is clear: Education decision-making now rests with states and districts, and the federal role is to support and inform those decisions.

It could have a combination of tuition increases, service reductions, and possibly layoffs.

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…