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CER President Welcomes Education Secretary’s Support for Smaller Schools, Higher Standards (1999)

September 21, 1999.  Showing the power of good research and reform ideas which The Center for Education Reform [CER] has driven into the public’s minds, Education Secretary Dick Riley has endorsed the need for smaller schools and urged all schools to make advanced courses available to all students.

CER President Jeanne Allen cautions against the assumption that more money and mandates is what will bring about these reforms, and offers five suggestions for federal and state policymakers to ensure children have access to smaller, more effective schools.