If those same schools do not register significant improvement after three years, however, they stand to see much of their federal money stripped away and given to parents, who could choose to have their children tutored, or send them to charter schools or to better-performing public facilities.
She punched a few buttons on the computer display of her cash register, electronically communicating our special order to the kitchen, and gave me a table stand with a number on it to identify us to the waiter responsible for serving the tables.