“People understand the whole town burned to the ground and how devastating that is. What most people don’t know is these kids — these families — lost their support groups.” —Michael Ervin

Principal of Paradise High School in a story about the impacts the Camp Fire and the pandemic had on the Class of 2022 (The Atlantic, Aug. 9, 2022)

“We can’t just ask the kids to grin and bear it when the temperatures in the classrooms are unbearable to them.” —Tom McCoy

Superintendent of Oxnard Union High School District, which for years had relied on cooler coastal temperatures to cool classrooms before a successful 2018 bond measure that paid for HVAC installation (LAist, Sept. 5, 2022)

“Without seeing the scores for everyone, we are guessing if our scores were good, bad or in between.” —Don Austin

Superintendent of Palo Alto Unified School District in a story about the CDE’s decision to delay release of statewide Smarter Balanced test scores (EdSource, Sept. 22, 2022)