text: Today the House passed H.R. 5, the Student Success Act. I voted in favor of it because it restores local control of education by:  Eliminating Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP), the No Child Left Behind ?ÛÏreport card?Û? requirement;  Eliminating federal highly certified teacher requirements;  Eliminating the federal government?Ûªs ability to tell states how to spend their own education money (maintenance of effort);  Keeping federal funding at sequestration levels;  Consolidating 70 funding programs into one single grant program, eliminating taxpayer funded management positions at the Department of Education headquarters; and  Blocking the federal government from mandating ?ÛÏCommon Core?Û? standards.  Amendments also passed to remove federally mandated teacher evaluation requirements and to make Title I dollars portable for public schools and charter schools, if a state so chooses.  I'd like to thank everyone who responded to my facebook posts asking for feedback on this issue. I read them all, and your feedback helped me make decisions on dozens of amendments and on the overall passage of this bill. I offered an amendment that would have gone even further in removing the federal government from education, but unfortunately it was ruled out of order and was never considered. However, this bill does represent great progress in this area!