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Idea to send:	Topic Education Accountability Content Demand accountability in education by requiring the Department of Education collect and provide, via mail, better data to parents regarding test scores, graduation rates, spending per student, the achievement gap between whites and minority students, etc. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce gave Oklahoma a grade of "F" for the quality of our education data, indicating that we fail to collect and provide sufficient data on the quality of our schools and the mechanisms by which they operate. Furthermore, the State Dept. of Education needs to provide better and more accessible data on individual school districts to parents. This data should be broken down into easy-to-read formats and mailed to every parent in the state (not buried deep within their ill-viewed website), so parents know precisely what they're getting for their tax dollars.