Will she listen?
With California flatly refusing to comply with federal law, a lot of people are getting impatient. Last week a letter from leaders of a broad coalition of groups was sent to Margaret Spellings, asking her to take action and hold school districts’ feet to the fire with respect to the rights of parents under NCLB to transfer their children to better schools. (Our press release is here.) I’ll merely repeat what I said last week: if enforcement doesn’t happen, NCLB reform will be largely without meaning.
