Rather than restrict access to an entire sector of colleges, we need to empower individuals to make informed decisions about their education and career goals.
John Kline
The Public Record
John Kline is a former Republican member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Minnesota's 2nd congressional district from 2003 to 2017. During his tenure, Kline served on several key committees, including the Education and the Workforce Committee, where he focused on education reform and workforce development. He was known for his advocacy of school choice and efforts to reduce federal involvement in education. Kline also played a role in military and veterans' affairs, having served in the U.S. Marine Corps prior to his political career.
We appreciate the overwhelming, bipartisan vote in the House to push the pause button on this regulation.
We cannot meet this goal by launching an assault against an entire sector of higher education.
The proposed GE rule is so bad, however, in our estimation, for our students and our country that we have no alternative but to ask the legislative branch to stop it being implemented.
I understand there is an alternative in the regulation that was supposed to address this, why isn't that good enough?
We hope that you are looking at this vigorously. We hope that there is cooperation with the SEC and that we will get an answer.
But my question goes back to we keep spending more money, and at some point it has got to stop.
We can't afford to lose a generation of children because our best intentions didn't work as well as they should have.
Despite the near tripling of overall per-pupil funding since 1965, national academic performance has not improved.