An area of principal leadership that has received little attention is how they manage leadership for instruction, given that they do not necessarily have expertise in all of the content areas being taught in schools.
Critics argue that rubrics limit students creativity and reduce teachers to scorekeepers.
This finding casts doubts on Texas school systems widely publicized claims of having significantly narrowed the achievement gap between white and minority students. These working conditions contribute to the high rate of attrition and recruitment problems among special ed teachers. The CEC offers an action agenda that includes more money, administrative support and better recruitment for special ed teachers. Some have suggested that the report's lack of substance is an effect of trying to avoid conflict in the highly racially polarized county. The school system did not integrate until 1966, more than a decade after the Brown v. Board of Education ruling.