Charter schools, as a matter of law, have always been exempted from the accountability system, and the 65 percent requirement is part of the financial accountability system. We don't know that there is an administrative way around it, but certainly if there is a way that Gov. Perry administratively can achieve that, he certainly will do that.

Kathy Walt

This is exciting, ... I haven't lived in Colville for 18 years, but I think that there is a positive influence here. I'm excited about helping to continue the excellence in our schools.

Kevin Knight

If people feel schools are an important part of the community, we really encourage you to come out and vote.

John Vornbrock

You have really, really good schools. But when you're really good, it's hard to become great.

Willard Daggett

Local authorities are well used to claims from people who have tripped over pavements, but in some areas there has been a marked increase too in claims regarding social care or perhaps bullying in schools. The picture with regard to claims is a very patchy one across the country.

Peter Andrews

We always welcome the community in our district, but this week in particular, we invite the people to visit our schools.

Dr. James Wilcox

The genesis of this is to look at how schools are funded.

John Brackett

The families living in hotels and motels are for the most part receiving financial assistance through the Federal Emergency Management Agency and will continue to do so through February 7, 2006. Some families have found more permanent housing here. An estimated couple dozen school age children from the disaster areas are enrolled in Santa Monica schools.

Robert Chatman

We're not going to have any F schools.

Maryellen Elia

All schools in our conference are pretty good. The conference should be a challenge.

Don Lukowski

Virtually every university in the country has an alcohol problem. I am concerned about the problems we have with alcohol, but they are less troublesome than some of the Eastern schools I'm familiar with. Students at UW are a lot more focused on their education, I've found, and they are more responsive to authority figures.

Richard Stegman

We just need to market to (teenagers) through gay-straight alliances in high schools. Just tell them here are some films you might enjoy; come together as a group and join us.

Joseph Cook

It is high stakes. This is the big test of the year. The results will help to determine the school's adequate yearly progress.

Patrick Robinson

It's becoming a really important event for the kids. Every year it gets bigger. To watch the growth of this particular event and to see the enthusiasm of both the schools and the children as this project developed has been really exciting.

Maxine Durst

This (conference) is going to be a positive thing for all of us. It's going to make scheduling a lot easier, establish some new rivalries and bring support back to the schools and the Ohio Valley.

Walt Skaggs

We don't want to be involved in closing schools. But I'm going to move adoption of this resolution because I think we can't afford to do otherwise.

Jim Fett

I hope they would try to get us in with Upper St. Clair, Mt. Lebanon, Baldwin and schools that are geographically near ours. There is no question that our people here in the community get a lot more excited when we are playing schools like Upper St. Clair and Mt. Lebanon that are just few miles away. And I think that is the way it should be and something we should do.

Jeff Metheny

We're looking at whether we can and should disperse some of the children into different schools.

Terry Abbott

We will be staying home, concerts won't be going on. We might close schools in some communities.

Dr. William Schaffner

We need to do whatever we need to help schools. We are all Americans and we need to get through this crunch.

Sharon Brown

The coach at Ninety Six told coach Sharpe she really ought to be recruiting me. A lot of the local schools were recruiting me, but she hadn't heard of me until the Ninety Six coach mentioned me.

Brenda Jackson

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

Joyce Carey

Get Connected is the name of the project. We would like to include at least 1,000 schools in the project in the next five years; connect 1,000 schools to the Internet.

Gaspar Tarte

Sometimes the landscape of the game changes and not all schools keep up with that.

John Kryk

We know from our scholarship programs that the top community college students are every bit as good as the juniors in these highly selective schools. If you really want to address the issue, you really have to work with community colleges.

Joshua Wyner

We have people standing in line that want to be nurses. The problem is we don't have enough capacity in our nursing schools.

Linda Aiken

It was a lot of fun to coach the girls we've played against the past four years. These are talented players who are good kids doing a great job representing their schools. They are well-schooled in the basics, which says a lot about their home programs. They all showed a lot of hustle and heart.

Bob Morris

Boards are being very conservative in their forecasting, and that may be why you see the schools coming back and letting the community know ahead of time, when they are going to be needing additional funds.

Rick Lewis

We're very excited to have Bonnie step into this position. On top of her special educational experience, what she brings is a familiarity with the Burlington schools that will ease the transition for everybody.

Jeanne Collins

Our organization is the construction manager for Woodstock schools. We think it's a great idea for the kids to get some new schools. They're overcrowded.

Brian Fuller

The success of the schools and the success of the community are linked in destiny, and I'm glad they are working together.

Brett Sciotto

They're all 'A' schools and they're good 'A' schools. It's a good tournament and I'm glad to be part of it.

Monica Tooley

Every student that I speak to feels isolated in some respect in their department and schools and so offering these events is some way to link together the community.

Paul Rohwer

We believe in supporting schools.

Liz Neth

You can put some procedures in place to try to prevent it - but if you're one of those schools that has that tradition, it's going to happen.

Nina Simmons

We have been focusing on reaching the youth through our schools. Our youth focus is to really build connection points to youths who are needing to find a solid foundation for their lives and to help them grow as leaders so they might go back out and help build a better community.

Paul Sorensen

That's the best part. It gives conventional kids an idea of what disabled kids have to go through to play ball. It carries over to their schools and their communities.

Jim Ferguson

In the B class it's tough. Most of the schools only do baseball or track. It's a numbers game, we just don't have a lot of students.

Jim Sandusky

Charter schools are public schools. Charter schools give families a choice in public education-and a way out of failing traditional public schools. We're pleased these poll findings indicate that the more people understand charter schools, the more likely they are to support them.

Nelson Smith

High schools are responsible for providing a great deal of supervision and monitoring of student-safety issues. Colleges are a much more open, free environment.

William Mays

Just because other schools and counties are doing it, it doesn't mean we necessarily have to follow it. We need to do what's best for the children in our area.

Brenda Duos

Any action by [Schools Superintendent Ron] Blocker is obviously window dressing in an attempt to cover up the bungled legal mess created by her initial suspension. Our legal case against OCPS is strong, and this belated action by the Orange County School Board will not deter Mrs. Hall.

Fred O'neal

He'll be looked at by a lot of Division I schools next year.

Larry Morgan

Schools have quickly closed and thousands of people carrying machetes, some with guns, are rushing toward the military barracks. It could be bloody.

Isotonu Achor

Young people having access to firearms is an issue that parents, communities and schools are all addressing.

Kelli Durham

For the Ku Klux Klan to now attempt to engage schools is a new and scary development in Michigan. Schools are a breeding ground for racism. This has to be stomped out right away.

Greg Murray

We'll probably revisit all elementary attendance lines because we'll have to talk about the impact of the new schools opening.

Barry Reese

I think we had a great response to the concert. Not just from the students but from labels, producers and other schools all wanting to come.

Hussain Ismail

Germs are spread quite a bit through schools, ... They are transmitted from child to child; and, if one child gets sick it is likely that three of four others will.

Tom Roy

I do not like to force property owners to go to different schools simply because of new growth. Let people do it on a voluntary basis.

Jennifer Faliero

When I was a player here, the atmosphere was crazy. At that time, there were only two schools and they didn't like us and we didn't like them. There were pranks, pep rallies, so much going on in the community. But for the players, we didn't pay attention to that stuff. We let others worry about that.

Bryan Way

School boards are seen as the lowest rung of the political hierarchy, especially by other elected officials. But what that means is they are closer to the electorate than most officials. That to me is a position of influence, and it's not being used sufficiently to advocate policies and programs the schools need.

Pedro Noguera

There's a tremendous amount of effort being focused on that end and we will be making it even more effective because we can't rest as long as incidents like that are taking place in any of our schools.

Gerard Kennedy

Hampton University is poised to offer any assistance necessary to the faculty, staff and students at our sister schools.

William Harvey

Special attention will be paid to places of worship, our churches and our schools.

Morris Iemma

We met with Senate and House leaders, and they felt they could cure it during the session. I'm very confident [schools] will be able to use co-teaching.

Wayne Blanton

Indirectly, we are promotion education for young African boys, and especially for girls, who probably would be at home working. But because meals are being served in the schools, their parents allow their daughters to attend with their sons. We are feeding hungry people and promoting education for young girls.

Juanda Maxwell

A number of schools and athletic directors have stepped up and gone above and beyond more than anything I have experienced. We will never be able to express the amount of appreciation we have.

Rick Dickson

He didn't go to one of the top schools - Harvard or MIT or Stanford or Northwestern. I think that was an advantage. He didn't get brainwashed into one of the doctrines.

Allen Sinai

Rural schools are forbidden to collect any other fee aside from the three permitted categories.

Wang Xuming

In today's world, where you have so much disconnect between the schools and the community ... that's why levies fail.

Suanne Sines

A number of schools already have a textbook committee. Citrus needs one also.

David Casey

Because of more corporate money, schools will get more general-scholarship money. And that's something we are excited about it.

Commissioner Leon Kerry

Well basically, [evolution] is a scientific theory. It plays a very major role in biological research. Since it is where science is, it is what should be taught in public schools.

Charles Lane

Does spending more per student lead to increased learning? That's a difficult one. At many schools, the faculty is being paid for its research abilities, not its teaching skills.

Don Heller

I don't know if we really have a choice when we have that many schools under capacity and we have real needs.

Candy Olson

They've gone to private schools where they've had little contact with minority students and, probably all their life, they haven't been disciplined or punished for these kinds of things.

Robert Korstad

The general consensus is that students don't know enough and they aren't learning enough about it either in school or at home. The majority of schools don't have personal finance classes, and many parents find their own finances is a difficult subject to talk about.

Laura Levine

I have found it increasingly difficult to meet my obligations to the citizens of Millville and the students and staff of our schools.

David Mccarthy

If we hadn't fought for them, our schools would have received an amount so low it would have again required cutting calendar days and other devastating cuts.

Kate Brown

From kindergarten to graduation, I went to public schools, and I know that they are a key to being sure that every child has a chance to succeed and to rise in the world.

Dick Cheney

We've been on a very good ride. I think it just shows greater parity between the state Catholic schools.

Don Buckley

Most schools now have rims the breakaway on the side also. It takes less pressure off of the hand (when someone dunks).

Roby Witcher

Parents may refer their children to the program. We also get referrals from schools, police officers, physicians, fire departments and the juvenile courts in Summit and surrounding counties.

Julie Klein

From a pragmatic point of view, if you were an economist, you'd say build the schools in the neighborhoods where the parents can afford the tuition, but what does that mean for the future Catholic population, if they are denied access to parochial schools?

Thomas O'connor

We've always competed against D-I teams in our division. Now we're playing big name East Coast schools and we're getting more recognition. However, the team is not eligible for the playoffs for another two years.

Katie Mcmahon

A CAT pass is not, and will not, be an option because the school bus drivers are union members. The unions run the schools, and this will not change.

Greg Forbes

What we know from these high performing, high poverty, high minority schools is that these kids can do it. If you provide the support they need, if you close the opportunity gap, they can do as well as affluent and white and Asian kids.

Russlynn Ali

Evolution is a large political controversy as to what should be taught in the schools. But there is no scientific controversy that we evolved when we talk about evidence from fossils and DNA.

Carl Zimmer

We are extremely overcrowded. The schools are also very outdated. The new buildings that would replace them would have the latest technology.

Benjamin Soria

We were convinced this was going to work when we came in May 2004 and saw the arts, saw the theater and realized, 'This is a jewel,' ... Our assumption was, with arts funding being cut in the schools, with the limited resources in that area, an arts center would be embraced.

John North

I think our member schools clearly think we needed to take some steps to level the playing field and this is the measure that will accomplish that at this moment.

Marty Hickman

Those people have to live somewhere and their children will attend our schools.

Wayne Miller

What surprised me is what we're able to accomplish with the resources we have in comparison to institutions with much larger budgets. That has just baffled me. There are schools out there with huge academic budgets and somehow, with our skeleton staff, the kids just get it done.

Don Oberhelman

He was beginning to see a decline in the respect for public schools and that bothered him.

Muriel Cooper

This outrageous conduct is just plain wrong and has no place in our schools or society. He never again will be allowed near anyone in our schools.

Michael Best

I think it's hilarious that things are the way they are. We're about to elect the leader of our country. We don't have enough money for schools, we're at war and we're worried about this?

Jc Chasez

There is nobody in this room that has contributed to building up our schools like Dr. Anderson has.

Tony George

I have a very difficult time moving west of Metcalf when you have families driving past one, two or three elementary schools that are closer than 21.

Pam Robinson

The state doesn't provide any money to private schools. They're deemed private businesses, private entities.

Deetta Culbertson

The toughest for us is always the schools and the sheriff. Those are the two really tough ones because they're the biggest part of the budget.

Gloria Whisenhunt

The fact is, under his influence, Richmond had among the highest crime rates in the commonwealth, the schools were consistently ranked near the bottom statewide, and people paid more in taxes.

Tim Murtaugh

One of the problems for Australian schools in particular is that the agencies who publish these surveys tend to think of themselves as the holy grail.

Richard Sorensen

Not only will this lead to confusion on the part of the students, but this is a not-so-subtle way of hiding the substantial influence of religion in the history of Western civilization. Our schools should not be in the business of hiding things from students; they should be in the business of revealing things to them.

Martin Cothran

These are classes that students have expressed interest in, not to us, but generically to their home schools and other institutions.

Donna Harris

I'm very happy with how we wrestled. There are a lot of schools year in and year out that don't get somebody out. It wasn't just getting out, but the way they did it.

Roger Branham

If we don't build new schools outlined in the bond issue, we will have to put the projected 7,500 students expected in the next four years in existing classrooms and portable buildings.

Mike Curry

We're looking at a fundamental change in just about everything we do in schools, from curriculum, to how we teach and how we assess and how we grade.

Kathy Kawaguchi

It's been pretty easy to match my schedule at Tulane just because both schools offer such a wide range of courses.

Christina Montrois

There are no immediate plans right now. But we (need) schools in the eastern part of the city.

Marty Sanders

That concept has not caught on in Las Vegas. The schools need to focus on giving kids better hands-on experience, but employers also need to reach out to the community, build better relationships with schools and make internships more available to students.

Bill Werksman

We don't know which newcomers and players are going to play early on in the season, so we have no idea who will step up and be a major factor in the outcome of a match. Both schools could play a number of different formations and we just have to prepare for everything and look for things we can exploit.

Rebecca Hornbacher

I think it's one of those years where the competition among county schools is showing itself on the field. It's balanced out.

Dan Burke

For schools and other government buildings, it is essentially important in times of tight budgets and high fuel prices to focus on energy savings.

Michael Durand

We start with that, then schools can be moved in either direction. It's worked well for us for years.

Doug Kenyon

Schools rely on these results. It has tremendous consequences for hundreds of our schools.

Randy Dunn

I am very pleased. This is a win for public schools.

Glen Richardson

These people have no schools, no hospitals. They're very poor, it's time to do something.

Macon Hawkins

When we play the bigger schools, it tends to elevate her game. We'll play teams that come in and say, 'Oh, they're just a Class A school,' Then, they realize we're here to play and this won't be a cakewalk.

Bill Cleary

It concerns me when our schools are making significant progress from year to year, and yet are identified as program improvement, ... We should be celebrating the progress the schools are making.

Jane Burke

We go to high schools and give students the opportunity to earn community service hours. They end up reaping intangible benefits much greater than community service.

Garry Daigler

This school board administration will not stomach this kind of activity going on on our buses or schools. That person or persons involved in this incident this afternoon will face full criminal prosecution.

Bucky Burnsed

Playing the lottery when the jackpot gets this big brings a lot of enthusiasm to our communities, but the real winners are the schools in Idaho.

Roger Simmons

With all the businesses of the world together we can link all of the poor countries, the schools, hospitals and health clinics of the poor countries and get them all on the Net. That helps enormously, for example, in sending information about AIDS.

John Gage

We have really tried to make the building feel more like a middle school. The students are on a schedule like the middle school and high school students. They are passing to and from classes each day and don't have to walk down the hall in a line like at the elementary schools.

Robin Hadrick

For schools to remain accredited they are required to offer certain types of courses. My personal perspective is that community colleges have a unique and important role, targeting curricula to serve their populations. In Arizona, that mission is fulfilled very well. We respect Cochise College as a quality institution.

Mike Seiden

What I saw with my kids was consistent with what I had been hearing, ... I looked around at local (Washington, D.C., driving) schools ... and could not find one that anyone would tell me was a great school.

Mike Dewine

There are national meets like the Penn Relays in track that have events on Sundays. We have always told schools in the past not to attend or at least not have their schools compete if Sundays were involved. But we're only looking at (allowing) this on a national level.

Bill Reader

Everything depends on a good job - strong families, strong communities, the pursuit of the American dream, and a tax base to support schools for our kids and services for our seniors.

Bob Taft

Our conference gets us ready for the tourney. We're one of the littler schools in the conference, so playing all these bigger schools helps us out even more.

Matt Alexander

Hopefully we'll pave the way and make it a little easier process for the rest of the schools.

Dan Gilmore

It will be entirely up to Congress to decide whether to renew the (rural schools funding) law and how to pay for it.

Terry Seyden

I feel these visiting teachers are so important because this is one of the best music schools in the world. But it is in Bloomington, not New York or some place where you have the music world at your feet.

Michael Mccraw

It's happening all over Oregon. It's not unique to our schools.

Barbara Ray

When you do community building, you fight for social justice and human rights in schools and jobs and every aspect where racism raises its ugly head.

Frances Pratt

You have to have 95 percent participation in testing and then an attendance of 95 percent, as well as making proficiency. If schools don't make adequate yearly progress, it is a big problem.

Sharon Dye

We project our schools in the north and west to grow at a rapid rate.

Chris Gralapp

We're ensuring we meet the guidelines already in the law to maintain public confidence in our efforts to build schools.

Susan Harrison

We just can't sit around twiddling our thumbs. We don't have a choice. We have to build schools for children.

Candy Olson

It is possible that the public is putting defibrillators in schools rather than senior centers because society values the opportunity to prevent the death of a young person over the opportunity to prevent the death of an older person. Alternatively, people may not realize that cardiac arrests are more common in senior centers or health clubs than in high schools.

Peter Cram

I don't think we're very interested at this point. You don't see a lot of games in Indiana that are low scoring because we're holding the ball. It's an expense at member schools to install the equipment and I don't see it at this time.

Blake Ress

We're a little confused as to why this constitutional amendment is necessary because the courts have also protected that right to pray voluntarily in schools.

Andrew Schneider

The hallmark of a U.S. education is critical thinking. So the mission of this office is not just to have schools for U.S. citizens but to have models of education for others. It's a twofold thing.

Keith Miller

I think at each gym, you'll see a nice-sized crowd. All four Torrance schools are in Division II-A and it's big for all of us.

Leonard Butler

This is kind of the hotbed for small schools. Fan interest up here is always pretty high.

Norris Ashley

We all know here that the law is the most powerful of schools for the imagination. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.

Jean Giraudoux

From 33 percent to 13 percent (shows) a lot of work has gone on in those schools.

Russell Klein

Our goal is that they will go right back into the schools where they have been teaching. They likely have an investment in that community, and there will be opportunities for them right there.

Patricia Graham

There's 20 sports whose sole lifeline depends on football here. They can't exist without successful football. There's such a huge burden on football revenue, schools don't have a choice.

Terry Holland

I think we need to address the elementary and middle schools first. Those are safety issues that they are dodging over there.

Doug Wiles

(Former athletic director) Bill Wilder went to the school's board and church council and convinced them that they could have a football program for little money, ... They bought into that.

Tim Sanders

The growth accomplishes a parallel increase in students taking demanding courses such as pre-algebra, calculus and physics. It is important to remember that the best preparation for the SAT is the day to day work students do in schools.

Gaston Caperton

Because they've been here and know other wrestlers and schools, sometimes it can be a lot to handle. It really depends on the individual.

Brian Smith

You have to be invited to perform at the convention — usually by a taped audition. Many schools submit tapes to be considered, but very few schools are accepted or invited to perform.

Randy Talley

He's been getting interest from nearly every level. Marshall has shown some interest in him, and other schools are sending me stuff all of the time.

David Walton

If the governor wanted to close schools, I wouldn't recommend it and I wouldn't recommend against it. It's not my place.

Ric Cobb

This is a very important ruling on the issue of personal freedoms. Many other schools have willingly accommodated Muslim schoolgirls wearing the jilbab.

Iqbal Sacranie

We've added a strong component in leadership development, something new that's getting some buzz nationally. It's at the point where other schools are asking what we're doing.

Paul Browne

A lot of the schools are still coming pretty hard.

James Montgomery

It's a commitment that schools have to make early enough to develop the budget to support it. It's hard to come back after a bond has passed and a budget is in place and try to do all these things.

Tim Dufault

I think the mayor has the right approach. This is about the future of our city and the future of our children, and one place they shouldn't be squabbling over is schools.

Joe Conley

I didn't hear specifics as how it relates to how they were going to help the children of the impacted schools transfer or relocate to other schools. One of the things that I would really encourage them to do is have the opportunity to meet with families.

John Cataldo

It was tough, knowing there was Division I schools where I could have walked on or had opportunities to play Division I-AA. They call you a student-athlete; sometimes the student part has to come first. The environment up there and the academics really mean a lot to me. A lot of people think I'm crazy for passing up those opportunities, but I really feel at peace that I made the right decision.

Andrew Didonato

Things are good and getting better. Our streets are safer, our schools are in great shape, essential city services have been preserved, our public is more informed and our grand list is growing. These are the issues that really matter to the general public.

Mayor Timothy Stewart

It's just a great rivalry. Two Catholic schools playing as hard as they can for 48 minutes and after it's over they shake hands and pray together.

Ward Courville

It's very important to the district and the schools. We want the kids to do their best.

Marc Lahiff

[The choice fair] is like a mini college fair. We hope that after parents attend, they'll say, 'Hey, look, I found three schools that fit my child well,' and then they'll follow up at the open houses to find the fit that's perfect.

Chris Bennett

For far too long UK schools have had a lop-sided curriculum in which the accent has been on academic intelligence rather than emotional intelligence.

Anthony Seldon

Rohan said there have been dramatic improvements. Most of the infrastructure - the roads and water lines, for example - are back in order. They're working hard on reconstructing schools. The country has socialized medicine, and the government clinics are being rebuilt, too.

Ron Matthews

Would anyone advocate that we take the fences off the playground for elementary schools and just let kids run around in the streets? ... By the same token, why would we allow schools to sort of poison our kids with junk food?

Tom Harkin

No doubt about that; I love it here. I've had the opportunity to be at four high schools now, and I'm really comfortable here. I enjoy having the support of the administration here. And I enjoy being around the student-athletes here.

Scott Harding

We're excited about the All-Area Meet. It's always fun for our guys to run against their friends from the other schools around.

Mike Blum

The club here is really rooted in the community. We have really strong ties with the schools.

Karen Dove

They took the cup to the school's day-care service, and a teacher called both parents.

Nathalie Prevost

We had our moments. However, in the final analysis, both of those schools are old buildings and they need work done.

Richard Shapiro

These guidelines mark a commitment by the industry to provide schools with beverages that offer variety, nutrition and fewer calories, and are very similar to the Coca-Cola System's current guidelines in the U.S..

Don Knauss

Travels with Amigo targets ESL students and helps us make connections with parents. It is a nice way to bring what is going on at home into our schools.

Jennifer Ostrowski

Schools were starting earlier and earlier.

Larry Mckeown

We're looking more at curbing some of the field trips, and schools that had scheduled trips, we are asking them to postpone them.

Stephen Williams

All schools have improved attendance.

Michael Picarsic

I thought we played okay. We played all top-ranked 5A schools. We may not have taken in match victories, but we did win a game against San Antonio-Madison.

Lee Grisham

We need schools to stand on the side of parents who want to teach good nutrition, not on the side of junk-food companies who want to teach bad nutrition.

Gary Ruskin

It's important to recognize that charter schools are public schools, and that it is better for your tax dollars to be spent on innovative programs that equip children to succeed, rather than always sending money to schools regardless of whether or not they succeed.

Jeanne Allen

We go into some of the schools and work with some of the kids, these the kids who are troubled, whether it's having outbursts in class or they are a part of some gang related activity. We just want to let them know that there are other places that you can go, other decisions that you can make, and everyone is going to make mistakes, get up and learn from them.

Kareem Evans

This is the amount of money it costs to run our schools.

Jim Ball

I'm enjoying every minute. I see a lot of friends doing what I do at other schools, and they've never gotten close.

Craig Way

I'm hoping that within 20 years we'll be well up in the middle and maybe near the top of the (UC schools), if we do things right.

Anne Kelley

The other thing that was attractive to me is that he himself is a product of Catholic schools and has sent two children through Catholic schools.

Dan Garrett

Many people think we already do it that way. If we make the change, some of the schools will be bumped up and Hurley could be one of those.

Deb Hauser

We've been able to do things - for example, close schools for academic failure. It is hugely difficult, it's hugely controversial and it's absolutely the right thing to do. That simply does not happen in other cities, because of a lack of political will.

Arne Duncan

It seems through the years that the same standards have not applied to Garner schools as to the rest of the county.

Horace Tart

If Toledo Public Schools want to increase student enrollment, they must first look at themselves. Themselves they can control. They can't control charter schools.

Christopher Myers

Every year, the schools were taking another week out of our summers. It was hot. So I said, 'You know what? I've had enough.

Sherry Sturner

It's to a new intensity, escalating into physical fights, getting arrested for sending threatening letters over e-mail. In my day, it was just mean letters. It was unusual to see girls fight in school. Now, I hear it's not unusual at all to see girls fight in schools.

Cheryl Dellasega

We?re getting our guys in better shape and polishing things up a bit. The north schools had the advantage with the altitude in the early rounds, now they?re coming closer to our home.

Cain Jagodzinski

It's a great day for the university. There are many schools that have yet to meet this challenge.

William Fannin

The issue of violence has not gone away for our children. Eleven years later, our schools are still not safe.

Van White

Our cities are saturated with fast-food purveyors. ... With the concentration of fast food even worse in school neighborhoods, our schools, parents, and policymakers need to take a serious look at this issue.

Bryn Austin

Brown does not mandate integrated schools. Instead, Brown mandates no segregated schools. Segregation may be chosen by residential patterns.

Dave Douglas

We don't know exactly why New York has always been the leader, but it's probably that so many schools on Long Island have had such a strong A.P. culture that it brings up the average.

Trevor Packer

It is difficult to get in and out and to operate as a normal school. If the schools are to operate normally, we need the leverage in which to do so.

Dennis Kelly

Originally, we were going to lose tennis but we're one of two schools with tennis courts. So we may end up with tennis and give up something else.

Larry Nicks

Before the meeting, we had revised our contract based on talks with (Imagine Schools and the charter school group), ... By the time we got to the meeting, we had an idea of where we were.

Dale Friedman

I didn't want to see two schools of 500 kids in each high school.

Karen Eyrich

Reporting is slowly getting better. Most schools still don't do it right, but more do every year.

Catherine Bath

We know that all our schools are trying very hard, ... To be put on a list -- it's just a stigma I'm not sure is helpful.

Catherine Sullivan

Currently a lot of schools and coaches have their own safety rules, but they're not the same as another school down the road and may not be as stringent.

Brenda Shields

The evidence is fairly convincing that smaller schools are more effective. At the district level there are some modest benefits of having a larger organization, but those are more than offset by the deficits of larger schools.

Paul Peterson

I actually think it'll be tougher on travel for the 1A schools.

Larry Mosely

Early registration not only provides smooth transition into the schools but helps us to find highly qualified teachers because teachers are allocated based on enrollment.

Barbara Batts