Rep. Kline sketches out ESEA game plan
Blog by Alyson Klein/Education Week
Rep. John Kline, R-Minn., the chairman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee, laid out his summer game plan for the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act—which involves breaking the bill into bite-size pieces—in a recent speech at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank in Washington. Kline explained that his panel has two bills in the works that deal with pieces of the ESEA law. (More on those bills in the works here.) One would eliminate education programs that are deemed duplicative or ineffective. Kline realizes that he may have a partisan battle on his hands with that one, but he also said he expected that most of his fellow House Republicans would find much to like in the legislation. (more...)