Parents should be really confident, and I am confident, that this is a scientifically valid and reliable test.

Clearly, we're watching it carefully because all our policies and reforms are geared toward increasing the success rate of our students.

That's too late for us to be able to make promotion decisions in grades 3, 5 and 7, to accurately identify students who have to be invited to the Summer Success Academy.

I would say that that is conceivable, but that won't happen very often. It will be unlikely.

Now, about 80 percent of the cases I'm doing are Iowa babies going to adoptive parents in another state. That's a big change.

Adoptive parents have to be careful because there are pregnant women out there (who) really don't have any intention of giving their child up for adoption.