The problem is not being fully addressed by the presidential candidates, the group said, because voters don't want to hear about national government plans to impose new standards on local school boards.
Rhee noted that in her city, children who go to public schools in an affluent neighborhood get a ``wildly different'' education than students in the same school system who live in a poorer neighborhood.
She also voiced concern that some of her fellow Democrats are so critical of the federal No Child Left Behind law that emphasized standardized testing that they have lost sight of the point of the legislation.
``For too many years, we were not holding people accountable,'' Rhee said.
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