Again, I want to thank Chairman Kline for these proposals to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, what today we refer to as No Child Left Behind.
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 refe...
We are proud to stand with the voices of opposition to these bills.
I commend Chairman Kline for offering a bill that acknowledges and respects that it is the state and local leaders who are driving education...
The current federal law is the only thing left that stands in the way preventing us from helping the children of Denver.
The combined effect of these bills is to rely on state-designed accountability systems, state-designed academic standards and state-designed...
The sincere, ongoing efforts of this committee to reauthorize ESEA and improve America's schools over the last 4 years are recognized across...
The recently introduced Student Success Act and Encouraging Innovation and Effective Teachers Act represent a strong step in the right direc...
Thankfully, states have not waited for the federal government to act on ESEA and we have acted on our own to advance meaningful, state-drive...
As long as the federal government spends tax dollars to fund public education there must be accountability for how those dollars are spent.
Congress must empower states also to define and lead education reform efforts, while limiting the federal role to supporting authentic, comp...