Excerpt from Hearing on H. R. 6; Reform Proposals for Chapter 1: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Elementary, Secondary, and Vocational Education of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, First Session However, it will not be enough to establish high standards and expect improvements to happen. Chapter 1 needs to support schools in implementing reforms through intensive staff development and assistance. Chapter 1 tests need to be aligned with State testing systems. That is not permitted now under present programs be cause of the national testing requirement. We need to monitor and enforce the program in terms of continuous progress not in terms of compliance. And we need to integrate education in social serv ices ln high-poverty schools to address all six goals. We also recommend that Chapter 1 funds be concentrated in high-poverty schools. One option would be to create a set of priority schools in which we recognize that maybe the school can't go on by itself and solve all the kids problems, that we have to integrate services and address all the goals in the schools. Further, Chapter 1 should offer resource flexibility 1n exchange for accountability. We should hold schools accountable for out comes and give them the freedom and flexibility to use their inputs and the Federal resources in the way they know best. The assessment itself goes on to describe 10 new directions which I will be happy to discuss during questioning. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.