Rethinking Accountability: Rep. Raúl Grijalva
U.S. Rep. Raúl Grijalva (AZ) discusses a need for accountability and equity for the long-term benefit of the United States at the Rethinking Accountability conference hosted by SCOPE in Washington, D.C.
Policymakers; school and district leaders; business, teacher, parent, and civil rights organizations; education foundations; and members of the media gathered June 11 for a conference on Rethinking Accountability: Putting Students and Learning First. The conference discussed how schools, districts, and communities across the nation are charting new paths to student- and learning-focused accountability, and how new approaches are making a difference in improving education.
The conference was hosted by the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education and sponsored by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the Sandler Family Foundation.
In his sixth term as a member of Congress, Grijalva has made the reform and full funding of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act his top education priority for the 113th Congress. He has also been instrumental in enhancing services for English-language learners. As a long-standing member of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, where he chairs the Education Task Force, Grijalva has worked for comprehensive immigration reform and pushed for fair access to quality education for minority communities. He is chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus's Education Task Force and a member of the Education & the Workforce Committee and part of the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.