John Kline

New Push To Keep Student Loan Rates From Doubling

The Huffington Post | Tyler Kingkade | Posted 04.23.2012

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A Congressman who successfully rallied Democrats in a government shutdown fight last summer hopes he can drum up support once more as he attempts to s...

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8 Ways The Government Is Grappling With Student Loans

The Huffington Post | Tyler Kingkade | Posted 03.30.2012

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) thinks Congress should change the law to allow borrowers to have their debt from private student loans wiped clean when fili...

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Obama Labor Board Appointee Shared Insider Secrets, Violating Ethics Code, Report Says

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 03.23.2012

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WASHINGTON -- An inspector general's investigation has found that a recent appointee to the National Labor Relations Board violated the agency's ethic...

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Will Congress Prevent Student-Loan Interest Rates From Doubling?

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 03.21.2012

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Spencer Pritchard, a first-year political economics student at University of California, Berkeley, has less control over his professional career than...

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GOP Trying To Bury Investigation: House Dem

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 03.08.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Rep. George Miller (D-Calif.) sent a letter to House Republicans Thursday accusing the GOP of trying to keep portions of an investigatio...

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House Republicans Vote To Update No Child Left Behind

AP | Posted 04.30.2012

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WASHINGTON — A House committee has passed a pair of Republican-backed bills that would update the No Child Left Behind education law by shifting...

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House GOP Push Ahead With Plan To Update No Child Left Behind

AP | KIMBERLY HEFLING | Posted 04.17.2012

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WASHINGTON — House Republicans on Thursday pushed ahead with a plan to update the federal No Child Left Behind education law by shifting more co...

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Virginia Bill Would Ax History And Science Tests For 3rd Graders

Posted 03.26.2012

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Virginia's 3rd graders may no longer have to take history and science standardized tests under a new proposal. The state Senate voted to pass a bil...

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Broad Coalition Argues Bills Undercut Brown v. Board

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 01.25.2012

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A broad coalition of 38 civil rights, education reform and business groups sent House education chairman John Kline a scathing letter Wednesday, descr...

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ESEA Reauthorization: Everyone's Cards Are on the Table. Now Let's Make a Deal

Michael J. Petrilli | Posted 03.14.2012

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Democrats across and beyond the nation's capital are up in arms about the ESEA reauthorization proposals released by House GOP leaders on Friday. Or at least they are pretending to be.

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New GOP Education Bills Unlikely To Go Far

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 01.09.2012

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Just in time for the law's 10th anniversary this past Sunday, House Republicans led by Rep. John Kline (R-Minn.) have released draft legislation for r...

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10 Years Of No Child Left Behind: Was It Worth It?

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 01.06.2012

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When President George W. Bush joined congressmen John Boehner, George Miller and Edward Kennedy to sign the No Child Left Behind Act in January 2002, ...

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Half Of All U.S. Public Schools Are Failing

AP | DORIE TURNER | Posted 02.14.2012

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ATLANTA — Nearly half of America's public schools didn't meet federal achievement standards this year, marking the largest failure rate since th...

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Republicans Maneuvering To Quash New Rules

AP | SAM HANANEL | Posted 01.30.2012

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WASHINGTON — The National Labor Relations Board on Wednesday moved ahead with plans to speed the pace of union elections, even as Republicans in...

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Tom Harkin's Version Of No Child Left Behind

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 12.11.2011

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Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) released his draft of the Elementary and Secondary Achievement Act -- known as "No Child Left Behind" -- on Tuesday, defendin...

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Harkin's Education Bill Draft Shows A Federal Rollback

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 12.10.2011

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An early draft of a Senate committee's sweeping rewrite of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act rolls back major accountability provisions of th...

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Duncan's Waiver Proposal Scales Back Federal Role In Education Standards Enforcement

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 03.09.2012

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Much has been said about the ineffectiveness of No Child Left Behind, the sweeping, decade-old federal education law that uses student performance on...

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Reforming No Child Left Behind -- With Or Without Congress

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 10.08.2011

As students head back to school, the Obama administration is using executive power in an unprecedented move to circumvent a congressional standstill o...

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Sen. Michael Bennet Expects Senate NCLB Draft Ready By Fall

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 09.24.2011

WASHINGTON -- As Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) sees it, the holdup on overhauling the nation's sweeping education law, No Child Left Behind, has littl...

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Republicans Introduce Bill Aimed At Crippling Labor Board

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 09.18.2011

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WASHINGTON -- House Republicans introduced a bill Tuesday afternoon aimed directly at scuttling a controversial complaint issued by the National Labor...

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In Montana, Federal Education Funding Lies In Balance

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 09.07.2011

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When it comes to education, Montana is stuck between a rock and a hard place. Faced with potentially losing federal funding after publicly challeng...

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Arne Duncan: Montana Could Be 'Left Behind' If Won't Comply

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 09.06.2011

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Montana could face a withdrawal of federal education funding if it doesn't improve compliance with No Child Left Behind, U.S. Secretary of Education A...

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Duncan's No Child Left Behind Proposal 'May Face ... Legal Challenges'

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 09.04.2011

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Does U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan have the legal authority to move forward with a proposal that allows states to bypass school performance ...

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Education Reauthorization: A Law Left Behind?

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 07.26.2011

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While Democrats and Republicans mostly agree that a sweeping federal law governing education desperately needs to be overhauled, they are divided on h...

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With Divided Congress, Tough Road For Obama's Education Reform

AP | CHRISTINE ARMARIO | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Obama administration has pushed an ambitious education agenda in the last two years, sending $100 billion to states thorough the stimulus package ...

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