John Kline: “The sincere, ongoing efforts of this committee to reauthorize ESEA and improve America's schools over the last 4 years…”

Former Chairman John Kline, while recognizing that the overtime threshold should be responsibly reformed, called the administration's drastic move extreme and partisan.

Republicans and Democrats have a history of bipartisan cooperation on this issue.

I cannot State emphatically enough that far-reaching reform, fiscal responsibility, and bipartisanship must be the principles that guide us as we work to solve this problem.

Part of the way we need to approach these solutions is to adopt reforms that address the structural flaws within the plans.