We must place emphasis on the individual students, not on federal educational mandates from bureaucrats. The federal government needs to get out of the classroom and let our good teachers do what they do best.
Support education policies that emphasize students, let teachers teach, and reduce federal educational mandates.
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Parents, teachers and local school board officials must have greater flexibility and reduced regulation with the use of these federal funds. The emphasis of our education system must be placed on the child, not on federal educational mandates from Washington. I support reforms in our education system that will shift decision making away from Washington bureaucrats and to those who know children best - local leaders and parents.
Increasing funding for special education, charter schools, Impact Aid, career and technical education state grants, and maintaining Pell Grants at the discretionary maximum award level.
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"Education is best left to state governments, which are far more aware of the capabilities and educational needs of their students. I have serious concerns with any federal program interfering or coercing how individual states advance the education of their citizens. That is why during my time in Congress I have supported legislation prohibiting the Secretary of Education from attempting to influence states into adopting Common Core Standards."
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The subcommittee page lists "Chuck Fleischmann" on the Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies subcommittee and shows recent activity on appropriations affecting education, including the FY26 funding package that was said to "strengthen education and health."
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Roll Call 665, S. 1177: On Agreeing to the Conference Report; Status: Passed; Fleischmann, Republican, TN: Yea.
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S.1177 became Public Law No. 114-95 and includes prohibitions on federal mandates, federal control, and federal coercion over state standards, curriculum, assessments, and Common Core adoption.
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Fleischmann promised to support education policies that reduce federal mandates and preserve teacher/state flexibility. During his House service, he voted yea on the final conference report for S.1177, the Every Student Succeeds Act, which became Public Law 114-95 and included provisions limiting federal control or coercion over state standards, curriculum, assessments, and Common Core adoption. Because the relevant federal legislation passed while he was in office and he supported final passage, the promise is best judged delivered in the same term context.
The promise was framed as a support pledge rather than a guarantee of a specific enacted education-law outcome. The evidence shows Fleischmann maintained an official position favoring state control of education and reducing federal mandates, and states that during his congressional service he supported legislation to prevent the Secretary of Education from pressuring states to adopt Common Core standards. His Appropriations subcommittee role also shows continued involvement in federal education policy. Because the promised action was to support such policies, not necessarily enact a full repeal or restructuring, this is best counted as delivered during his federal House tenure, though the evidence is not detailed enough to identify a specific bill passage as the delivery mechanism.