Durso: "Perhaps the tenure of the superintendent has been maybe longer than it should have been"

MontCo, Fairfax no longer top performers | Washington Examiner

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"And although scores improved since 2003 on the Maryland State Assessments, Montgomery ranked significantly lower among districts in 2010 on both math and reading in elementary and middle schools. For instance, Montgomery's eighth-grade students placed second in the state on the math exam in 2003; by 2010, they were 10th."

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"Montgomery school board member Michael Durso was less forgiving of the disparity between the data and his district's gold-standard reputation, calling for an independent review of the school system. "The reputation of the school system, and the reporting of statistics and test scores, have been more tied into the personality and the image of [Superintendent Jerry Weast] as our leader, than the students and teachers who are impacted even more," Durso said. "We always haven't been as candid about some of our shortcomings, as opposed to publishing our positives.""

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(ps: Don't miss the recent Washington Post opinion piece where Jerry Weast and Pat O'Neill refer to the Maryland School Assessments and the High School Assessments as "poorly constructed tests of questionable reliability or purpose.")