The Champion has an interview with Marshall Olson, our newly elected representative to the DeKalb County School System's Board of Education [term begins Jan. 1, 2012]:
... there has been a lack of clarity on an agreement of the mission of the school board, which you think would be pretty simple: it’s about making sure every child has a chance to get a high-quality education...
...We have this great disparity between a handful of schools that are performing very well and a large number of schools that are falling very short of delivering a quality education. We need to figure out what the components of high functioning schools are and what we need to do develop that. Continue reading @ The Champion
The Champion promises additional interviews with other newly-elected board members, so stay tuned.
