John Kline: “Despite what you may hear from critics, early childhood education has been proven over and over again to generate a…”

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…

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

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I thank the witnesses for being with us today. Excellent testimony, as we're trying to solve the problem that some of us have been dealing with for a long time.

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