New education ideas on the table at East Austin summit
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The
U.S. Department of Education led a two-day summit in East Austin this week to share ideas on reauthorizing the
Johnson Administration's Elementary and Secondary Education Act.
The act includes a list of programs designed to improve performance for at-risk and low-income students.
Educators from several southeastern states were invited to attend.
"Kids are making some progress, but there's not enough yet to actually close the achievement gap, so that the kids coming from those schools look no different than the kids that come from the other, high-performing schools," Southwest Educational Development Laboratory President Wes Hoover said.
The turnaround program focuses on the lowest performing 5 percent of schools in the country.