John Kline: “This is not a roadmap leading to a stronger middle-class, but a blueprint for more government at the expense of the…”

At the end of the day, it will be America's poorest neighborhoods that are impacted the most, and that is the last thing we intended as Congress when it passed the Every Student Succeeds Act.

I thank the gentleman for yielding and for his hard work on this and so many other bills in the Education and the Workforce Committee. Mr. Speaker, today I rise in strong support of this package of legislation. This bill is one of several…

The Department chose, once again, to take an extreme partisan approach that will hurt the very people they claim they want to help.

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…