“Sustainability is the key … We invested for over 35 years in a highway system, and it has given us this incredible resource. Think about what could happen if the federal government had a 35-year commitment to strategies for at-risk youth,” Morial said.
Despite the intensive negotiations taking place this week on Capitol Hill for House and Senate members to craft a federal bailout of the distressed U.S. mortgage securities market, several members of Congress delivered remarks to the gathering, including Sen. George Voinovich, R-Ohio, Sen. Tom Carper, D-Del., Rep. Danny Davis, D-Ill., Rep. Mike Honda, D-Calif., and Rep. Howard P. “Buck” McKeon, R-Calif.
Spellings told the group that she believed the Bush Administration’s No Child Left Behind law represented an important achievement with regard to establishing greater accountability and measurement within the nation’s K-12 public school systems. She said it will be incumbent upon the next presidential administration to build upon No Child Left Behind’s legacy to enact federal interventions on behalf of at-risk teenage students to decrease national dropout rates
“I look forward to being part of the agitating group” among education advocates fighting for state and federal policies to help for at-risk students, Spellings promised.
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