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Dick Durbin: “Is it not true--I would like to ask further of the Senator from Washington--that most, if not all, of us believe there…”

On the recordSeptember 29, 1999
Is it not true--I would like to ask further of the Senator from Washington--that most, if not all, of us believe there should be accountability in education, accountability by students with their testing, by teachers in terms of the results, by parents in terms of their involvement, and that if we accept the Republican approach, which basically says, let's block grant the money, let's give it in large sums to the school districts, and not hold them accountable in terms of teachers and class size, we are not meeting this national goal?
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Discussing accountability in education during a Senate debate.

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