{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["http://lance.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases/lance-votes-to-repeal-no-child-left-behind", "Lance Votes to Repeal No Child Left Behind", "2015-12-02", "2015", "2015-12", "Republican", "House", "NJ", "Leonard Lance", "L000567", "lance.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "WASHINGTON, D.C. --- Congressman Leonard Lance (NJ-07) today supported a major education reform package that replaces the No Child Left Behind Act with greater local control and bipartisan reforms designed to improve K-12 education.\nEducation decisions should be made by local school boards, not bureaucrats in Washington. This landmark education package replaces No Child Left Behind with reforms that greatly reduces one-size-fits-all Washington policies and restores local control and decision making. These reforms empower parent-teacher decision making at PTA and board of education meetings, not by decrees from the federal government. said Lance after the vote. \nS. 1177, the bipartisan conference agreement negotiated by the House and Senate reduces the federal role in K-12 education by:\n Repealing the federal accountability system\n\tEnding the era of federally-mandated high-stakes testing\n\tProhibiting the secretary of education from dictating national education policy or requiring states to adopt Common Core\n\tRepealing 49 ineffective and duplicative programs, as well as reducing the size of the federal bureaucracy\n And the conference agreement restores local control by:\n Returning responsibility for accountability and school improvement to state and local leaders\n\tProviding school districts more funding flexibility to help school leaders better target federal resources on local needs and priorities\n\tProtecting the right of state and local leaders to determine what standards, assessments, and curriculum are best for their students\n\t\tProviding parents information about local school performance so they can hold their schools accountable\n\tStrengthening the charter schools program and the magnet schools program to offer parents greater school choice\n\tPreventing any federal interference in private schools and home schools", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["http://lance.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases/lance-votes-to-repeal-no-child-left-behind"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.8660112507641315, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}