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EDITORIAL: Thompson allows doubt to creep in: What a tangled web he weaved when he practiced to deceive -- with apologies to Sir Walter Scott.(Editorial)

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From: Roanoke Times (Roanoke, VA)
Date: 20070424
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Apr. 24--WHEN ROANOKE'S NEW SUPERINTENDENT -- and yes, he's still called "new" since he's been on the job less than two years -- blew into town, he judged our schools awful, just awful. So awful that we ought to brace ourselves for reconstitution. Then within a year, students performed better on Standards of Learning exams, more schools earned accreditation and talk about reconstitution, well, we haven't heard a word of it lately.

All this achievement -- the stuff of great resumes -- is because Marvin Thompson is at the helm. At least that's what we are supposed to believe.

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