How Are State Departments of Education Just Like Your Mother-in-Law?

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In another eye-rolling exercise for Arizona teachers and principals, 136 "underperforming" schools will be getting visits from a "solutions team" consisting of "home-grown" teachers, principals and administrators from around Arizona who will advise them on how to do better. While Robert Donofrio, superintendent of the inner-city Murphy Elementary District welcomes the help saying, "You've got to view this as a positive," he cautions, "We're not viewing this as earth-shattering." Others were more honest. As Glendale Principal Val Just put it, "Teachers and principals are skeptical that someone, in a couple visits a year, could have a good feel for what the building needs."