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[quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]
That could mean that either he is capable of changing his mind (which is banal, and is hardly a resounding statement of resolve - I cannot tell a lie, but don't hold me to that tomorrow) or it means  He currently can support a plan to move kids from higher performing schools to low performing schools that will become higher performing schools. The latter is not expressed properly (that is not what his words actually mean in English) and even reading his words as you do, its vague - do they have to actually be a higher performing, or is a solid plan enough?  Does McFarland's plan have to actually make is high performing as Deal?   Is that realistic? Over what time frame?  [/quote]

The words are pretty clear. I'm not sure why you are not understanding. But, I see if I can explain it better:

"Asking parents and guardians to take this leap of faith without more is asking too much. In order to secure the confidence of our public school families, we must focus on the issue of school quality in tandem with the proposed recommendations so that all our students – regardless of where they live – can succeed. Among other things, we must work with the community to create open and transparent school-specific quality improvement plans. "

First:

"Asking parents and guardians to take this leap of faith without more is asking too much." -- This is the reason he can't support moving kids to lower-performing schools.

Then:

"In order to secure the confidence of our public school families, we must focus on the issue of school quality [b]in tandem with the proposed recommendations[/b]..." -- The DME makes recommendations in a vacuum. Catania wants to focus on school quality along with the recommendations.

Therefore:

"we must work with the community to create open and transparent school-specific quality improvement plans" -- School-specific quality improvement plans are one component of confidence-building.

To put it another way. The DME wants to move students. End of story. Catania can't support that. In contrast, he proposes working with communities to create school-improvement plans in which the community has confidence and which have a realistic chance of improving the school. Parents who have confidence in the new schools will more willingly attend them. In that case, Catania would support the changes.

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