Dive Summary:

• House Education Committee Chairman John Kline has introduced legislation to give states the power to set academic standards.
• The bill would replace the No Child Left Behind law and eliminate the Common Core program.
• Schools would still be required to report students' performances but each state would decide what is on the curriculum, what is on standardized tests and how schools are rated. 

From the article:

In a conference call with reporters, he said he objected to the federal government "virtually coercing states" to follow a federally-mandated curriculum with math and reading proficiency standards as a condition of qualifying for grants. States should have "an enormous amount of latitude" to decide test content and score-based school ratings, he added.

Nevertheless, Kline's bill would continue to require states to administer standardized tests in reading and math from the third through the eighth grades, and would add three science tests between third grade and high school. Schools also still would be forced to break down test results by race and class.