the new senate work has borne tremendous friewlt fruit, partiy in the past week. we passed the first major overhaul of elementary and secondary education in more than a drks decade, and the presidens poised to sign this into law. r5e85senators voted. a big bipartisan majority. the every student succeeds act strikes the proper balance between flexibility and accountability. the bill ends education waivers and the federal common core mandate that had turned washington bureaucrats into basically a national school board. no one cares more about a student's success than a child's parents and their teachers, and those close toast our children should be the ones gourd make those -- empowered to make those decision. at the same time, accountability matters. i have three children who went through the school system. testing, in my viewpoint, done properly is a good thing. you want to know where your child stands, where the weaknesses and where the successes r yo r you want know e the school stands. but under this bill, states will have multiple measures of student achest, n