John Kline: “It's time we look for other opportunities to provide more authority and flexibility to the States and local communities…”

The same voices now claim this overtime rule will provide a pay raise for millions of Americans. It won't.

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…

It could have a combination of tuition increases, service reductions, and possibly layoffs.

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