. . . the holes in our programs were getting larger and larger. And as a staff
member and as a parent at the time, it was a program that I was not
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confident in its stability, in what we were delivering to our students and our
students’ families. And so I have been very pleased to have been a part of
the school these last couple of years as we have partnered with [the university]
to really feel like we are a healthy school, and that as a teacher I can
proudly endorse our program with the utmost confidence (personal
communication, teacher B, 2006).