Colleges that load students with debt that they can't repay, or fail to prepare students to be successful in paying down their debt, should not be able to benefit from taxpayer dollars.

I appreciate that you listened to my concerns about the Department's implementation of the Every Student Succeeds Act so far.

Accountability is obviously important, but it seems to me a one-size-fits-all for 7,000 different colleges is not one that's going to work.

I hope to hear from you how we can better hold all of our colleges accountable for students' success in higher education.

We can't loosen guardrails and give colleges free range just because they ask for it.

One of the reasons you and I are able to work together to tackle big, important issues like higher education is because we work to find common ground and negotiate in good faith.

today in communities across our country, young people are asking whether they will be able to stay in the only country they have ever called home. Struggling patients and veterans are wondering whether their local community health center…

We must ensure higher education is paying attention to groups of students who have previously struggled.

I still believe that maintaining a focus on outcomes for student subgroups was one of the biggest successes of our bipartisan reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.

We can't allow schools and colleges to close the door on the students who have the most to gain from higher education.

I think a lot of us don't recognize how many students are in college who are homeless.

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.

So as the approval process concludes, the Department's monitoring of state accountability plans, the monitoring itself, will become all the more important.

There have been a series of problems with ESSA implementation under the Trump administration, including importantly a lack of transparency in the state plan approval process.

I fought with Senator Cory Gardner (R-CO) for ESSA's bipartisan data transparency provisions to help us better understand how schools are serving all kids.

I am really concerned that there are several proposals out there that actually remove Federal rules related to safeguards around faculty interaction in online education.

Providing pathways to college for nontraditional and underrepresented students should be a top priority of ours.

In passing ESSA, it was our intention to put our Nation's K-12 law on stable footing and ensure the law was implemented consistently across all 50 states.

It's very important that we know what is carried out during implementation follows congressional intent and reflects the bipartisan agreement that we make.

Some states have chosen not to use subgroup performance in school ratings at all, which--I would echo Senator Murray--is a clear violation of the law.

The very people who need to understand how schools are doing around certain subgroups the most--the families of students who belong in these subgroups--aren't able to get the information.

almost a year ago, as Republicans were jamming through the confirmation of Tom Price as Secretary of Health and Human Services, I rose to object to his nomination. I voiced my very deep concerns about whether Secretary Price would be…

I actually think that's unacceptable.

I do not at this point in time. I think we need to learn more in a demonstration project.

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