Student Success Act

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Mr. YODER. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Like many of my colleagues here today, I think the future of our Nation lies in the quality of education that our young Americans receive. Americans expect and deserve the very best from our public schools and from our schools all across the Nation so that their children have the tools to handle the challenges of the 21st century.

For far too long in this country, we've tried a one-size-fits-all, top down, Federal approach to educating our bright learners. Yet intuition tells us and experience shows us that local communities are better suited to make the right decisions when it comes to local public schools.

That's why I am proud to support the Student Success Act--to return and restore local control back to our public schools. I know that teachers, parents, neighbors, and families are better suited to make decisions regarding their children's educations than bureaucrats and government officials in Washington, D.C.

Mr. Chairman, let's put our communities back in charge of our future. Let's eliminate the top-down mandates, the strings-attached approach that Washington uses to educate our kids, and let's put teachers back in charge of the classroom and put our families and neighborhoods back in charge of our schools.

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