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In the President’s recent State of the Union address, he spoke about the steps we need to take to compete in the global economy and win the future. As the President rightly noted, education moves our entire society forward by ensuring that America’s workforce can meet current and future challenges.

This year we have an excellent opportunity to improve our educational system and move forward with a bipartisan reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA). As my colleagues and I work on this critical legislation, we must go beyond simply addressing the academic needs of our students; we must focus on the development of the whole child.

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