Walter B. Jones: “last year, this Congress made great strides toward keeping the Federal bureaucracy out of our children's classrooms.…”

“last year, this Congress made great strides toward keeping the Federal bureaucracy out of our children's classrooms. Unfortunately, the administration is now trying to reverse our progress and to put Federal bureaucrats back in local classrooms by implementing a national testing program that Congress has already once clearly rejected. I have said it before, and I will say it again: National testing is not in the best interest of this country. The key to providing America's children with the best possible education is to put control in the hands of the parents, teachers and communities, not in the hands of Federal bureaucrats who are hundreds and even thousands of miles away. For the sake of our children, I hope those of us who believe in parents and teachers, instead of bureaucrats, will pass H.R. 2846 to prohibit Federal testing, without the authorization of Congress.”