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HRD-94-51R 1 (1993-11-03)

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GAO          United States
             General Accounting Office
             Washington, D.C. 20548

             Human Resources Division

             B-252334

             November 3, 1993

             The Honorable Edward M. Kennedy
             Chairman, Committee on Labor and
                Human Resources
              United States Senate

              The Honorable Nancy Landon Kassebaum
              Ranking Minority Member
              Committee on Labor and Human Resources
              United States Senate

              The Honorable Mark 0. Hatfield
              Ranking Minority Member
              Committee on Appropriations
              United States Senate


              In order to raise the performance of all the nation's
              students, the Congress is considering education reform
              legislation. The approach it is considering, called
              systemic reform, involves all levels of the education
              system--national, state, district, and school--and sets
              high standards of achievement for all students.' A key
              part of such reform is providing freedom from regulations2
              that, according to experts, can constrain school
              improvement efforts. Under systemic reform, this
              regulatory flexibility would be given to schools in
              exchange for increasing accountability for student
              achievement.


              'For a discussion of this approach, see Marshall S. Smith
              and Jennifer O'Day, Systemic School Reform, Politics of
              Education Association Yearbook 1990, pp. 223-267. See also
              Systemwide Education Reform: Federal Leadership Could
              Facilitate District-Level Efforts (GAO/HRD-93-97, Apr. 30,
              1993).

              2The term regulation refers to a variety of governmental
              policies, including, but not limited to, regulations.  It
              also refers to statutes, guidelines, rules, policies, and
              interpretations of these items by local educators and
              policymakers.


GAO/HRD-94-51R, Regulatory Flexibility Programs

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