Hometown Source: Principal quality essential for student success, says Sen. Franken
Posted in From Al's Desk, News Clips on January 26th, 2010Op-Edit by Sen. Al Franken — The American Dream, and its promise of prosperity, has long been predicated on the simple idea that opportunity is a right, and not a privilege, and that every individual should be afforded a level playing field on which to set out into the world.
To fulfill this promise to our children, we must close the school achievement gap that is leaving so many of our children behind.
Yet reversing decades of educational inequality is no easy task. There are exemplary schools scattered across the country that are proving every day that while they cannot solve all of their students’ problems, they can push them to increasingly higher levels of achievement under the most trying of circumstances.




