Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., condemned President Obama’s Department of Education Tuesday, saying the department has been ‘brazen, deceitful, dishonest’ in implementing the major new education law.

“They’ve been brazen, deceitful, dishonest and unprofessional,” Alexander said Tuesday at The Atlantic’s Education Summit. Alexander’s specific complaint was over the department’s implementation of the Every Student Succeeds Act, signed into law in December 2015 as the first major federal education reform since No Child Left Behind in 2002. “On the very first instance where the Department of Education has a chance to write a rule implementing that law, they get an F.”