Arlington superintendent looks to close achievement gap

Arlington County Schools Superintendent Robert Smith said he was pleased with the progress schools were making toward achieving strategic goals, but more work remains to bridge minority achievement gaps.

“I’m not satisfied and we have a ways to go,” Smith said in an interview with The Examiner. “As long as I can walk into a classroom and look at a Latino boy and predict that he’s going to have less success that a white, middle-class kid, then we still have a major achievement gap.