{
  "id": 17255,
  "url": "https://www.the74million.org/article/accountability-works-outcomes-based-contracting-makes-it-work-better",
  "title": "Opinion: Accountability Works. Outcomes-Based Contracting Makes It Work Better",
  "summary": "As John Adams observed, “facts are stubborn things.” The facts, as education policy writer Chad Aldeman recently observed, are that No Child Left Behind coincided with some of the fastest achievement gains on record for Black, Hispanic and low-income students, and when that accountability framework loosened after 2015, scores fell — fastest for the students […]",
  "authors": "Chris Cerf",
  "category": "news",
  "topics": "regulation,children-education,transparency",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-08-06T10:30:00.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-08-07T05:10:58.501Z",
  "source_slug": "x-the-74-education-ai",
  "source_name": "The 74 (education AI)",
  "source_homepage": "https://www.the74million.org",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/17255",
  "original_url": "https://www.the74million.org/article/accountability-works-outcomes-based-contracting-makes-it-work-better",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}