I believe that the quality of education in the city of Medford is good, but good does not mean we should accept the level of education and not try to achieve better. No matter how well we believe our education level is the room for improving should always be our next goal. Unlike, some of our communities Medford has many parochial schools in our city and parents have the opportunity of choice. Most of the time the decision is based on religion, however our public school numbers are increasing and the students are transferring into our school system. In observing our school ranking we need to dissect the information. When looking at our MCAS scores we need to know what we are comparing. Some communities do not have the same challenges as we do. For instance, let’s look at children that transfer into our system that do not speak English they still have to take the test. The amount of children that are on IEP’s which might not be the same as other districts. When comparing these statistics we need to know what we are comparing. Are we comparing apples to apples or apples to oranges? The role I am prepared to take and have taken is to investigate our options. I’ve taken the initiative to speak and be willing to assist Representative Carl Sciortino who is working on the reforming of the MCAS test.
