New research doubts whether reform changes can be sustained

A report to be released next month by the Center on Education Policy, based on interviews with officials in 46 states whose worst schools have been receiving the grants, concludes there are widespread doubts on whether changes resulting from the grants can be sustained. The center's president, John F. Jennings, said these concerns were based on fear that there would be no money to pay for the added services once the grants expired, as well as on "a history of low expectations for kids" in those schools. "Just injecting money for three years isn't going to immunize them forever," Mr. Jennings said.

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