With the House expected to vote on a bill to replace No Child Left Behind this week, House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., criticized Democrats on Wednesday for trying to support local control of education while opposing legislation that would reduce federal power.

“You can’t have it both ways. You can’t say you want more local control and then support giving more of those powers to the superintendent in Washington to take that control away from parents,” Scalise told the Washington Examiner. “At the end of the day, the more power the Secretary of Education in Washington has, the less accountability control that parents can have over their kid’s education. We want to push those responsibilities back to the states and local governments so that decisions can be made closest to where the students are.”