John Kline: “we need to move away from a system that allows Washington politicians to use student loan interest rates as bargaining…”

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…

the law is the law, and it must be followed.

[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.

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…