Elizabeth Schultz, who represents the Springfield District, says she’s planning to leave in the middle of a Thursday night Fairfax County school board discussion on why one-third of students at the county’s best public school are struggling in math, science or both.

It’s not that she doesn’t care, Schultz told The Washington Examiner Thursday afternoon — in fact, she wants to see dramatic changes to the admissions process at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology — but she has a dinner with “powers that be” who also have a stake in Thomas Jefferson.