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NOTE: Please login to participate. Logging in allows you to access all functions and to see what's new since your last visit. FOCUS POINT: NCLB Public School Choice RequirementsCOMMENT: accountability is about fulfilling obligations to childrenSubmitted by Paul Hill
When it comes to educating children, schools are means not ends. The state (and school districts as its agents) has an obligation to educate children, and this implies not keeping them in schools that consistently fail to teach them. Fulfilling that obligation requires shifting funds from ineffective uses to more promising ones. As I have argued elsewhere (in ECS' recent accountability study, on their website) a state or locality has an obligation to continually develop new options, so that if a school fails the state has another way to serve its pupils.
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