Bobby Scott: “I urge my colleagues to join me in voting for this legislation, and I reserve the balance of my time.”

Codifying this new system without assessing its effectiveness just doesn’t make any sense.

The repeal represents the federal government walking away from that responsibility, which jeopardizes the hard-fought progress we have made.

It’s difficult to articulate how impractical these proposals are, to say nothing of the pain and suffering they’ll inflict on students, educators and their communities, if they were to become law.

Will actually contribute to the creation of miles of bureaucratic red tape, inconsistent education policy and enforcement across the federal government and a significant waste of the taxpayers’ money.