alyson klein who has been covering this was at the white house signing today. she's with "education week," an organization we collaborate with on education stories. she was at the white house today for the president's signing. thank you for being here. what are the main ways that this new bill is different from the old one? so, as you mentioned at the top, this new law would really broaden the authority of states when it comes to turning around low-performing schools, evaluating teachers and deciding what exactly to hold schools accountable for. states, as you said, will still have to test students in grades 3-8, and once in high school, but they will have more say on how much those tests count in gauge ago school's performance. >> woodruff: so is that a significant change in the testing that's going to go on? >> yeah, the testing will continue, but schools will also be asked to focus on other factors, things like school climate, teacher engagement, student engagement, access to advance course work. so those things will be looked at engaging the school's rating

is swain: alyson klein "education week" reporter. ." -- els "cq roll call niels lesniewski, "cq roll call ." mr. lesniewski: what i wanted to ask first was having completed one big project with a rewrite of the law we had called no child left behind, you and senator murray, the democrat, the top democrat on the committee from washington state, formed what seem to be a very good working relationship at the committee. and i'm wondering what you think your next project is going to be and if there is a project you think you can ask like it done in 2016 despite it being a presidential election year. ms. swain: they still pay -- mr. alexander: they still pay our salaries next are, so i don't think we should take the year off. and you are right about senator murray, she is a terrific senator. but she understands what ,enators need to understand which is that all you want to do is make a speech, you can get your own radio show and do that. when you come to the senate, you should try to get a result. and she is very result oriented. it was because of that relationship that we were able to get

is swain: alyson klein "education week" reporter. ." -- els "cq roll call niels lesniewski, "cq rollcall ." mr. lesniewski: what i wanted to ask first was having completed one big project with a rewrite of the l w