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Lamar Alexander: “We had a consensus that it needed to be fixed, and our consensus was, while we wanted the reporting requirements on test…”

On the recordMarch 9, 2016
We had a consensus that it needed to be fixed, and our consensus was, while we wanted the reporting requirements on test results, we wanted the decisions about what to do about the results of those tests back with States, classroom teachers, et cetera.
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Lamar Alexander
Republican · Tennessee

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Alexander emphasizes the bipartisan agreement on education reform and local control over test results.

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