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

Those peckerwoods don't know what they're doing. They don't. They're not being realistic.

I'm not conceding. I'm just being realistic.

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.

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

Many boards are asking superintendents to be messiahs.