John Kline

We did not cut a dime from IDEA. We didn't address special education.

We cannot make these families wait any longer for the education their children need and deserve.

The charter school model began in 1991 when my home state of Minnesota passed legislation to create the nation's first charter schools.

The ambush election proposal gives employers only seven days to find legal counsel and appear before an NLRB regional officer at a pre-election hearing.

Unfortunately, as is so often the case, the Democrat Senate refused to defend our struggling workforce.

The fundamental problem with the President's labor agenda is this: it has done very little to help put our labor force back to work.

Unfortunately, as is so often the case, Senate Democrats refused to defend our struggling workforce.

This hearing might evoke a sense of deja vu. Not too long ago, we debated a nearly identical ambush election rule proposed by the National Labor Relations Board that would stifle employers' free speech and cripple workers' free choice.

We ought to be focusing our efforts here on the children that need this the most--on lower income.

There is fragmentation, and is there a better way to bring them together?

We sadly do not have unlimited resources.

Some of us who may be in the denying thing by inference, we put together this hearing that calls this 'The Foundation of Success.'

It is a tragedy because every moment we fail to empower you with the resources in Rhode Island or California.

Yes, we have programs for homeless kids and programs for kids with disabilities and programs with kids with autism.

It is worth pointing out... before these programs were mandated... fewer than 15 percent of pre-K classrooms were good to excellent.

I was the author of that amendment to force Head Start to re-compete. I got all the arrows in my back to prove it, but I think it is very important.

Only some children need pre-K services to be ready for school and life.

The results from early model programs cannot be generalized to present-day investments.

State programs may be no more effective than Head Start.

Expenditures for child care under the Child Care Development Block Grant Program may actually do harm to some children.

We are not getting our money's worth from present federal expenditures on early childhood services.

The current system is simply broken.

That's why states are once again increasing resources for early childhood programs, with at least 30 states bolstering early education investments in the last year.

Despite what you may hear from critics, early childhood education has been proven over and over again to generate a substantial return on investment.

These troubling studies highlight the need to assess the challenges facing Head Start and consider smart reforms to strengthen the program.