The news here for us is the progress, the trend line, the strong upward tilt of the numbers.

We had made progress in each of our first three years, and we had a better team coming back this year. But the injuries to key people have really hurt.

The positive news is we appear to be making progress,

The news on the textiles unit does look like they are making progress on finding a solution. But the results for 2005 are a mixed message.

In reality it's still a bleak, bad news story, but we're making progress.

The system actually has a lot of the tools it needs to accelerate student achievement. It's just a lot of them don't fit together well.