Alexander Statement on House Education and the Workforce Committee’s Passage of Chairman Kline’s Bill to Fix No Child Left Behind

WASHINGTON, D.C., Feb. 11 – U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) released the following statement this evening on passage by the House Education and the Workforce Committee of a bill by Chairman John Kline (R-Minn.) to fix No Child Left Behind.

“Chairman Kline has worked diligently in this Congress and in the last two Congresses to pass a bill to fix No Child Left Behind. In the Senate, Ranking Member Murray and I are focused now on developing a bipartisan Chairman’s mark to fix this broken law and improve our nation’s 100,000 public schools for our 50 million students.”

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