Michael Casserly Quotations

Many boards are asking superintendents to be messiahs.

Wherever the powers that be set these bars, we're going to meet and exceed them.

The system actually has a lot of the tools it needs to accelerate student achievement. It's just a lot of them don't fit together well.

People understand more and more how critical it is to be well educated if you're going to thrive in the emerging economy.

It's not realistic that any superintendent could turn around some of these systems within two years.

It's possible that it's nothing but a prank, but also possible that it's more emblematic of a larger problem that the city's high schools are having. Who knows what the motive and thinking of the individuals involved in the spill might be? But it's impossible for me to think that students haven't noticed the quality of education they are receiving and the conditions of the buildings where they are expected to learn and are not frustrated by what they see.

The news here for us is the progress, the trend line, the strong upward tilt of the numbers.