School Accountability A Civil Rights Issue For Organizations Fighting New Elementary And Secondary Education Act

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School Accountability A Civil Rights Issue For Organizations Fighting New Elementary And Secondary Education Act

Phillip Lovell, the vice president for policy and advocacy for comprehensive high school reform at the Alliance for Excellent Education in Washington, D.C., said that the federal government shouldn't necessarily set what form school interventions take -- only that they must exist. States and districts should be able to tailor their extra resources to fit the specific needs of each school, whether that's curbing chronic absenteeism, starting intensive reading programs, or something else, he said.