the state average on the WASL reading and writing tests were 51% and 41.1%, respectively. By 2010, the state average had risen to 78.9% and 86%, respectively. Those are significantly improved results. And the figures in Northshore are even better. For graduation purposes, the WASL was administered in 10th grade. That started in the Northshore District in 98-99, and 70.0% of the 10th graders passed the reading WASL, 63.6% passed the writing WASL, and 54.9% passed the math WASL. The science WASL began for 10th graders in 02-03, when 52.3% passed the science WASL. In 09-10, Northshore's reading WASL scores (91.6%) represented about a 31% improvement. The writing scores almost 50% improvement, the math scores a 21% improvement and the science scores almost a 28% improvement. Those are very respectable levels of improvement. None of that improvement can be credited to McCravey, as she's only been on the school board since 2007. While you are correct to say that not all of credit can go to Dawn McCravey I want to point out that Dawn McCravey hasn't only been asking the hard questions she is known to ask for just the past few years. She has been asking them since she moved here in 1996. Since the very enrollment of her three youngest children, Dawn has been involved in EVERY event, class, field trip and class party. You name it and she has been there. She has seen kids go from not understanding to being the top of their class