Senator Grassley Voices Support for ESSA and Local Control
June 3, 2016
During a campaign stop last week, Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) voiced his support for ESSA, claiming, “It’s an excellent piece of legislation. It’s probably the first time in 20 years that the federal government has had less regulation of local schools,” Grassley said. “It has less emphasis on testing. It doesn’t necessarily reduce the goals that states have to meet, but states decide how they are going to meet those goals.” Read more here.