Kwame Brown scolds school officials who don't support mandatory SAT, ACT

D.C. Council Chairman Kwame Brown lashed out at school officials on Thursday who said they did not support his bill to require all District students to take the SAT or ACT before they can graduate.

Scott Pearson, executive director of the D.C. Public Charter School Board, testified before the council that Brown’s bill to make students take at least one college-entrance exam and apply to at least one postsecondary institution was “overreaching.” He also testified that charter schools were already incentivizing students to prepare for college.