If you're going to equalize the academic playing field, you've got to get the kids in early childhood programs.

You want to lead by example, and that's what we're doing here.

I've been here for four years, and I don't complain. I lobby quietly for the resources I think we deserve, and then we take the resources we're allocated and we do the best we can with it.

We are excited to have the support and cooperation of Microsoft in this endeavor. The challenges facing education can only be met through a community effort from the public and private sector.

Middle schools are flawed organizationally. They simply don't work.

I think we may find more before we are done.

He's done it before, he knows how to do the ninth-grade academies.

On the positive side, he is clearly hard working, disciplined and personable. On the negative side, he pretty much sticks to a prepared script.

We're actually looking at laying out a two-year plan to get all five of our automotive training programs certified.