"I work in an excellent school district. The board, superintendent, and administrators are all committed to doing what is best for kids. Recently, the local paper -- the Scranton Times --  'graded' 37 districts in northeastern Pennsylvania. My district was one of the top three performing districts for the fourth year.

"What is really amazing about this is that my district has 34.2 percent of our students classified as low-income; the other top two districts had a 8.1 percent and 16 percent low-income population. We also have a special education population of 17.5 percent; the other top two districts were at 14 percent and 11.9 percent.

"Now for the kicker: For the last two years we have been in 'school improvement' because of the scores that our special education students are getting on the PSSAs. This just doesn't make sense to me.

"I truly believe that my district goes above and beyond to educate all our students. People actually move into our district because of what is done for the special education students, and now we are being cited because we have a large enough special education population to be considered a sub-group. This is not fair to those children or my district. Go to www.paupack.ptd.net  to see my district's Web site."

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