BOSTON (CBS) — Interim Superintendent for Boston Public Schools Laura Perille joined WBZ-TV for a live interview on Monday night ahead of the new school year. School in the city begins a week from Thursday.

Prior to her appointment, Perille was the CEO of Edvestors, a school improvement non-profit, for 16 years. While there, Perille and Edvestors took part in “everything from providing resources to foster innovation and solutions in problem solving right at the classroom level and school based level to major system level work on issues like middle grades math rigor, equitable assess to arts education for now 17,000 more students over the period that we worked on this.”

Read and watch the full interview on the CBSBoston website.