McKibben proposes that church groups, which have long been interested in food and hunger issues, start to take malnutrition seriously and link
up with farmers» markets and local - food movements in order to begin to create a more
equitable system
for the
distribution of healthy food.
Since it may take a couple of years
for states and districts to follow the department's urging and set
up systems that will allow them to measure teacher effectiveness based on growth in student achievement, she said, states should be required to show that they are making good on the language about
equitable distribution of teachers that's already in the No Child Left Behind Act.