She was great on the board of directors here. She believed strongly in what we were doing.
I think staff shares the opinion that there should be multiple measures to evaluate a school and its programs. Testing is one of them.
We have a very arts-rich curriculum. I could get rid of all that. But if I increased my test scores, does that mean a student is better educated? No.
Clearly, an organization has to be accountable, but (should not have to) put all (its) eggs in a narrow testing basket.
It's not the proper way to run an organization. Would you run a business through fear?
We lose nearly an entire week. Four or five days, every morning, we lose instructional time.