Quotes by MaryEllen Elia

“It is critical that we work to ensure the success of our public school children in a highly competitive and global marketplace.”

“Shes been very positive. That will help her and help other people realize, hey this can happen.”

“Its important for all of us to be serious about what the needs are we have. Were not jumping to this lightly.”

“I think theres no question we have some things that we need to do.”

“We will be very aggressive in that.”

“We need to be smart and learn from them.”

“Were not going to have any F schools.”

“Weve been working very hard, focusing everyones attention on the F schools. We put a new focus on the school.”

“We are definitely seeing improvement. When we see improvement across the board, thats the way we want to be going.”

“Luckily, in this community, we have a pretty good working relationship with all of those entities.”