By 2014, the staff at Lawndale Elementary will again change its system and adopt
a statewide evaluation procedure, which was recently developed by the Mississippi Department of Education.
Following a school year marked by
statewide protests to recent changes in the testing
procedures and teacher
evaluation methods — with 20 percent of New York's students opting out of standardized tests — administrators at Minerva Central are preparing for a year of growth and collaboration, Farrell said in an interview.