Rick Roney of the Alliance leads the last line, the quietest and perhaps the most decisive: shifting how Chatham County feels about its own public schools. A community that expects excellence, and holds its schools to it, tends to get more of it.

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We have run two separate polls to find out where public sentiment actually sits rather than where we assume it does, engaged a marketing firm to help move it, and begun carrying the Moonshot into rooms across the the county through a running series of lunch-and-learns.