Holding School Accountability Accountable

With educators needing to complete yearly school progress reports, yearly student reports, and personalized student plans, some worry that too much accountability is leading to too little educating. We'll look at when school accountability is an effective educational tool and when it becomes a bureaucratic burden. Laura's guests are Michael Sentance, Secretary's Regional Representative for New England for the U.S. Department of Education, and Charles Ott, a program director for the Strafford Learning Center in Somersworth and a former school superintendent. We'll also hear from Neal Kurk, State Representative from Weare and a member of a National Conference of State Legislatures Task Force that studied the No Child Left Behind Act, and Ross Weiner, policy director for The Education Trust, an education advocacy group in Washington, D.C.