Shaw Elementary School Assistant Principals Pam Roberts, seated, and Marilyn Isom, standing, join Principal Velia Pedrero as they check the computer for the first release of any FCAT scores May 15, 2003. Only the students’ scores were posted, not the school’s grade. From what they could see, the administrators began to brace themselves for something other than the C they had hoped they would receive.

[Times photo: Toni L. Sandys]