But testing is the easy answer, and politicians are going to gravitate toward the easy answer first and toward the many other better and more nuanced methods of measuring teacher performance later if at all.
Economic development programs are duplicated within USAD, Commerce, HUD and SBA. The ethanol program is split between the EPA and Treasury, food assistance is carried out in eighteen duplicative programs, eight agencies supervise programs for the homeless, and ten agencies answer for programs for teacher quality.