While many of our students arrive at their first day of school many years behind on academic
achievement measures,
over the course of their
tenure at a school, students should close the gap between their own
achievement profile and that of a college - ready student profile.
Mr. Pryor's
tenure has been steeped in controversy, due in part to his commitment to the corporate education reform agenda, his leadership style and his relationship with charter schools, most directly with
Achievement First, Inc., the charter school management company that has been the largest single financial beneficiary of state funds to charter schools
over the past four years.