John Kline

This amendment ensures that foster kids do not face barriers to enrollment in charter schools. The amendment does improve the bill and does help foster kids. I want to thank the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Bass) for offering this…

I claim the time in opposition although I am not opposed to the amendment. The Acting CHAIR. Without objection, the gentleman from Minnesota is recognized for 5 minutes. There was no objection.

I think the points were made. I thank the ranking member, Mr. Miller, for making those points. What concerns me about the gentlewoman's amendment is this is going to take money away from the purposes for which we have designed it and put…

This amendment will force States to reserve more funds for review of public and private charter school funding. The underlying bill, Mr. Chairman, includes audits as an important aspect of quality authorizing measures. In addition, States…

I claim time in opposition, although I am not opposed to the amendment. The Acting CHAIR. Without objection, the gentleman from Minnesota is recognized for 5 minutes. There was no objection.

I urge my colleagues to support this amendment and the underlying bill. I yield back the balance of my time. The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Minnesota (Mr. Kline). The amendment was agreed…

I just want to say that it has been a pleasure to work on this legislation. We have heard compelling stories here today from around the country--compelling stories of transformation of entire cities and school systems, and lives being…

I would now like to yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from South Carolina (Mr. Sanford).

I am now pleased to yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Tennessee, Dr. Roe, the chairman of the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.

I am now very pleased to yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Minnesota (Mr. Paulsen), my colleague from the State of Minnesota, which is where charter schools originated.

I am pleased to yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Hall).

I must say I so appreciate the depth of knowledge and the enthusiasm and the passion of the gentleman from Colorado. Always a pleasure. Another great pleasure for me is to yield 4 minutes to the gentleman from Indiana (Mr. Messer), another…

College sports have become a favored pastime for millions of Americans.

The recent NLRB decision takes a fundamentally different approach that can make it harder for some students to access a quality education.

I strongly urge the Obama board to change course, and encourage key stakeholders to get to work.

Good morning. I'd like to begin by welcoming our guests and thanking our witnesses for joining us.

The challenges facing student athletes should be addressed in a way that protects the athletic and academic integrity of higher education.

We share the concerns of players that progress is too slow, but forming a union is not the answer.

If we want to keep high-wage, high-skilled jobs here, the only way to do that is to increase access to some form of higher education.

We are cutting off our noses to spite our face.

Anything that reduces access to college, that makes it harder to go, more expensive, takes us in the wrong direction.

We have stagnated. We have flat-lined, and 11 countries have passed us by.

We are trying to do a lot to increase transparency, just getting young people and their families basic information, what is a grant, what is a loan.

I absolutely voted against that, because it set us on this path where we are running up huge deficits and debts that keep piling on.

What I have been asking for, is a commitment to increase funding for special education.