Washington, D.C. (NEXSTAR) -- At a hearing Thursday on Capitol Hill, U.S. senators and educators from around the country agreed students should be doing better in school and discussed potential solutions.

The hearing focused on the current state of K-12 education.

"The decline in test scores started before the pandemic and has continued after the pandemic," Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) said at the hearing, hosted by the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee.

Eric Hanushek, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution said schools must start rewarding and incentivizing achievement. One important step, Hanushek said, is recruiting and retaining good teachers.

Indiana Secretary of Education Katie Jenner said she believes one of those incentives is increasing teacher pay, whi

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