Turning Around Low-Performing Schools:
A Guide for State and Local Leaders

"I challenge every school district to adopt high standards, to abolish social promotion, to move aggressively to help all students make the grade through tutoring and summer schools, and to hold schools accountable for results, giving them the tools and the leadership and the parental involvement to do the job."

-- President Clinton, October 28, 1997

"We cannot and must not tolerate failing schools. We need to stop making excuses and get on with the business of fixing our schools. We have the unique opportunity to do what is best for our children. This should be our great patriotic cause -- our national mission: Giving all of our children a world-class education by putting standards of excellence into action."

-- Secretary of Education Richard Riley, February 18, 1997