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On the recordFebruary 15, 2012
We urgently need Congress to reauthorize the ESEA law because for the past 10 years American schools have lived under a law that I have referred to as--it reminds me of the old Clint Eastwood movie, 'The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly,' because there is a little bit of all of that found in this law.
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John Kline
Republican · Minnesota

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Emphasizing the need for reauthorization of the ESEA law.

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