They will really just drop out of accountability for a year and restart as new.

They would like us to give (districts) some guidance (that) is reasonable. I think it would be reasonable for us to say, 'You should be cautious in promoting students who score unsatisfactory in English and math.'

Districts would be able to use their tutoring and summer school money at their own discretion.

What the board wanted was a little bit more involvement from the state,

This year is not a typical year in any way,

We have been in contact with districts who have lots of severely impacted schools who are interested in staying in the system.

Reasonable' probably doesn't mean if you were out a whole semester you make up a whole semester.

Robbie's working hard and learning what it takes to play at that level. I think the experience of being around guys like Michael Peca, Ryan Smyth, Jason Smith and Chris Pronger is more valuable than anything he could learn in junior hockey, but I'm not Craig MacTavish or Kevin Lowe.

The real difference is everybody is starting in the same place. In the past, we started in 68 different places.

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