REDLINING OUR SCHOOLS.

The article looks at the proposed reauthorization of U.S. Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA), which would force sanctions on low-performing schools in the U.S. The author argues that the so-called turnaround model the low-performing schools would face would cause teachers and families to leave, making the schools further bereft. She suggests that the government should focus on other problems including increased poverty in rural areas, the inequitable distribution of government funds to schools, and train and maintain teachers in low-income areas. She points out that the U.S. has used measures in the past that successfully handled these problems.