Schools give Board of Ed a progress report

Whether the county school system is succeeding or failing seems to be in the eye of the data-watcher.

On one hand, test scores are going up. On the other hand, they're not rising fast enough to satisfy some officials who spent yesterday morning checking on the schools' progress during a meeting of the county Board of Education.

"I'm not satisfied with where we are, and I don't think you should be, either," Superintendent Kevin Maxwell told the board members. "We've made some gains, but we haven't made all the gains that we would like to make, and we still have a lot of work to...