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Message Creation Date was at 22-FEB-1999 08:52:00
PRESIDENT CLINTON: EDUCATION INVESTMENTS THAT WORK
February 22, 1999
Today, in an address to the National Governors Association, President
Clinton
will reiterate his call for a new era of accountability in American
education,
and will ask Congress to pass his agenda to give states the tools they
need to
provide all children with a world-class education.
Building on What Works to Strengthen Accountability. In his State of the
Union
address, President Clinton announced a package of accountability measures
designed to hold students, teachers, and schools to the high standards that
will be the keys to success in the twenty-first century. In his remarks
to t
he nationD!,s governors at the White House, President Clinton will discuss
his
plan to support state and local school reform efforts through bold new
steps to
insure that federal support for education is directed only toward programs
and
policies that work to improve student achievement. The President will
shortly
send to Congress his Education Accountability Act, which will require
states
and school districts that receive federal funds to end social promotion; to
insure that all teachers are qualified; to turn around their
lowest-performing
schools; to provide parents with annual report cards on school performance
and
to institute effective school discipline policies.
National Leadership in Support of State Reform. President Clinton will
also
applaud the efforts that North Carolina, Michigan, Delaware, Pennsylvania,
California and other states are making, under the leadership of committed
governors, to implement these common-sense principles. The President will
call
on all states to take similar steps to ensure that all of AmericaD!,s
children
reap the rewards of strengthened accountability. While states and school
districts have made important progress in instituting rigorous academic
standards, a great deal of work remains to be done to help schools,
teachers
and students meet those standards. Only 26 states now require students to
pass
high school graduation exams, and far fewer have policies in place to
require
students to show that they have mastered the skills necessary to be
promoted
from grade to grade. Just 19 states have policies to intervene in
low-performing schools and turn them around. And there are some 50,000
people
teaching in AmericaD!,s schools on emergency teaching licenses - which
means
that they have not met the standards set by states for beginning teachers.
Investments To Support World-Class Education. The PresidentD!,s effort to
support high academic standards for all children includes an unprecedented
commitment of national resources to help states and local districts improve
education. President ClintonD!,s balanced budget calls for strengthened
inve
stments in education to hire 100,000 teachers to reduce class size in the
early
grades, modernize up to 6,000 schools, triple funding for after-school
activities, improve the quality of teaching, increase literacy, enhance
the use
of technology in the schools, recruit outstanding teachers in underserved
high-poverty rural areas and inner cities '. and provide new pathways to
college
for disadvantaged students.
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