School Reform Detectives Prints

School Bus for The Voucher School

'As I walk through the halls, I see teachers teaching and students learning and I say to myself, 'what wonderful school, what a wonderful world.''

'Personally - I'm against a four-day school week - I'm for a three-day school week. . .'

'You're being evacuated to a better catchment area.'

'You can't keep a middle school girl from wanting to impress boys, Valerie.'

Kate's first task as new principal was to right a number of wrongs.

"Please, Ms. Sweeney, may I ask where you're going with all this?"

'I think our mission statement should mention scholarship and attendance.'

"I'm doing just fine ??" as long as no one decides to do a background check."

'See, this is proof that your criticism of our educational system is right on!'

"Sorry, class, but because of new deregulations, I don't have to teach you anything this year."

'Ms. Peters, hold all calls. I'm busy implementing yet another hastily conceived and unproven education innovation.'

'A hidden cost of implementing common core standards in education...'

'Take this back to the committee. Since this is a school I would like the mission statement to mention education.'

"Now that we have ESSA, does that mean we can start leaving children behind again?"

'The halcyon days of an apple for the teacher are a distant memory.'

OFSTED

2010 Teacher Layoffs.

"I realize Kyle was looking at your answers, but that doesn't mean you can sue him for theft of intellectual property."

'This is just my part in the growing crisis in education.'

"Studies show teens get sleepy later than adults and need more sleep. We should start the school day later..."

"It drives me crazy when people whine about discrepancies in school funding..."

Standardized Testing

'The board couldn't come up with a 'Plan-A'.'

"I thought we were hosting a group of parents who wanted to complain about critical race theory and sex education. . ."

"Shhh. I think I heard my name."

Inspector of schools

'I'm home early. Due to budget cuts, the school district is laying off students.'

'I'm afraid Miss Johnson has lost control of her class!'

The New Schools Policy In Full.

'Making all of our district schools more adept at teaching math and science sounds like a good idea. Run it by legal first.'

'You don't think you were a bit harsh on that school?'

"We're undertaking an aggressive approach to student obesity. We call it, "No Behind Left on a Student.""

"It's a broken education system when the only solution is more and more homework."

'I think I see why the numbers just aren't adding up.'