But it's worth remembering that one of the strongest original rationales for school - based accountability was to provide data to justify more resources towards our neediest students. (c-sail.org)
I refer to this as a rediscovery rather than an innovation, because in many ways it represents a return to the original rationale for central banking. (rba.gov.au)
While it's true that an original rationale for having an electoral college was because electors were regarded, at the time, as being relatively free from undue influence, nowadays they mostly just rubber - stamp the candidate for their respective party. (politics.stackexchange.com)