Patty Murray actually said...

"I want to, by the way, touch on a common misconception on this topic. Identifying struggling schools is not intended to punish or embarrass those schools."

"We worked together to break through some partisan gridlock here and negotiated a bipartisan education law."

"I believe in this law, and I'm not going to stop raising these issues until the Department resolves them."

"I am very concerned that the Department of Education is approving state plans that do not comply with all of ESSA's Federal guardrails."