Prince George’s County schools Superintendent John Deasy stood alongside national educational leaders and politicians on Wednesday to call for a new role for the federal government in public education.

“Right now their role is around regulations and inspections and punishments,” Deasy said, when it should encourage school systems to be “catalytic, innovative, and hold us to consequences.”

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