Alaska Governor Sarah Palin - The Diigo Meta page

• 01 Jun 09
  

  Doug Noon

  "The standards are not the education problem we face," the governor said. "The major challenges are persistently low achievement among some students and low graduation rate. Now is the time for the state and school districts to work together to improve instruction and student achievement."\n\nTo that end, in this past legislative session the administration proposed and the legislature funded a pilot program to improve young children's readiness for school and an initiative to help struggling school districts build a sustainable capacity to serve their students.\n\n

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  • “The State of Alaska fully believes that schools must have high expectations of students,” Governor Palin said. “But high expectations are not always created by new, mandated federal standards written on paper. They are created in the home, the community and the classroom.”

     

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