The Nation - News from Aug. 20, 1986

Secretary of Education William J. Bennett said America’s schools should be run like small businesses, and called for shutting down those schools that cannot deliver what the public wants. Addressing delegates meeting in Washington for the White House Conference on Small Business, Bennett declared: “We must have greater accountability in the schools. You know about accountability. You know that if your product isn’t good, if your services aren’t good, you’re going to go out of business. We need something more like that in education.”