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I hate the fact that public schools like the one I went to have fantastic sports facilities, and state schools don't. That's not fair. That's outrageous.

If either of these two (proposed) schools had been in the northern part of the district, I probably would have voted yes.

I feel very honored we were chosen. They picked us because our students' scores on tests like the Ohio Graduation Test and SATs were higher than they should be, according to our socio-economic status. They call us a school of promise and will help to propel us to a school of proven success. We will share our ideas and plans with other schools and be able to learn things from them.

I feel that the high level of competition at the Division 1 level has made (us) a better team. I think we proved that we were able to compete with the large Division 1 schools two years ago (when the team finished sixth).

I feel pretty good about what happened yesterday. People are fed up. They don?t want taxes to go up, but cutting teachers is like shooting yourself in the head and then bleeding to death. If they don?t do something soon, the board is going to see the privatization of schools undermining the system. Giving them input is one thing, but if they don?t use it - what?s the sense?

I feel like we are going to get stronger as we go through the season. The hope is that we can finish even better than we did last year. The girls work extremely hard and are very dedicated. The AA teams that we have played, we have been doing well against, and we have held our own against the bigger schools that we have played.

I feel so good, (even) with my own sadness. I can only imagine, and probably better than most, the feeling they must have in that locker room and on that campus. Those kids, many of them were passed over by Big East schools and others, and I tip my hat to their courage ... to the incredible coaching job that Jimmy did and to everybody at George Mason University. ... I applaud them. I share in some degree Jimmy's joy because as a friend, I know what he must be feeling in his heart.

I feel like it's part of the deal in Class D basketball. We don't have the luxury of having five or six schools within 30 minutes of us.

I did attend Catholic schools up to the ninth grade, and I admire much in the Catholic Church.

I did an educational video with National Geographic a year and a half ago, and it will be distributed to a few thousand schools around the country.

I can't see that we're going to change our regular season schedules. With dollars the way they are now, we're conscious of playing schools as close as we can get anyway.

I can't justify taking money away from hungry kids and needy schools to pay for the Games when corporations are willing to write the checks.

If other schools question why they didn't make it and we did, they should schedule differently. We've proven we belong.

Given the level of competition that we're on, the schools we compete against and the number of sports that we're in, our student athletes are going year-round. So, open summer participation just means that these student athletes are just that much busier. But that's OK as long as there's some control, some limitations on it. We try to monitor it a little bit.

Getting these two schools to come to agree on coming to an independent site is really big. It was difficult, but in the end the reward will be a really good day, a good weekend for downtown Baltimore.

Franklin County as a whole is really my home, ... I was born in Benton and attended grade schools in Benton, Rend City, and up at the old Mt. Pleasant school house. When I went to school in Rend City it was a bustling little mining town. My grandfather, Herman Bradford was a hoisting engineer at the mine there until the mine closed.

For years, we have focused on striving for what will make our schools adequate. I believe we can do better than that with a more focused effort and new ideas.

From an athletic director's standpoint, the revenue these games should generate will be greater. The schools are really close and we're excited to play.

For schools like this, cooking fresh food every day would be impossible because the facilities we have got are set up to reheat food. It would be great if the government were to give us the money for a new kitchen, to make fresh food for 380 children each day, but I'm not so sure that is going to happen.

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

Funding our rural schools is very important, but it would be inappropriate to do so by selling parts of the Black Hills.

From what I have seen in my five years in this region, this show best represented all of the schools in our region, and that says a lot about the competitiveness.

From the very beginning, this redistricting has been about racial balance. Should children be assigned to schools based on skin color? That decision was made early on in this process.

I don't think anybody can say that this is an absolute, but schools cannot rely on not preparing. When a child comes to our door with their parents to register, we cannot turn them away.

If anything it will free up traffic on the freeway and give kids a free day off of schools and others a free day off from work.

If any mayor reduced school funding by 33 percent and called it the 'Strengthening Our Schools Initiative,' I think they'd be excoriated.

If anybody sees the work at the Defense Language Institute and the Naval Postgraduate School, they come away just overwhelmed with pride and excitement at how good these schools are and how diverse they are, and that's what the commissioners did,

If all schools were green schools, we would recycle a lot more. If we keep on like we're going, the landfill will fill up in 14 years and we'll have to pay more for garbage and it will be bad.

I don't think we're ever going to get it corrected until middle schools get a governing body.

I don't think you can apply that to all schools. It's so hard to predict what opportunities and interests students will have in 20 years, or what the job market will be like in 15 or 20 years from now. I don't think anybody, schools or parents, can base their instruction primarily on that.

I don't understand it. Early in the season, we were playing quality 6A schools and we were competing with them. We'd either lose a close match or win a close match. I don't really know what's going on with them now.

If a business has 60 percent of its employees who are sick, how are they going to keep operating? If schools have a lot of children who are sick, how are they going to keep operating? Are they going to have to close? Are their children going to have to be at home?

If a 92-page tax swap is a necessary prerequisite for accomplishing what the public really wants the Legislature to do, then we've completed it. Now we must get started on the required course work for this session providing additional funds to public schools so that they have the resources to fully fund existing proven programs, providing teachers with a pay raise, and providing smaller classes and up-to-date technology.

I enjoyed her level of competition. Debbie could pull six kids out of PE class and be competitive. The two schools built a great friendly rivalry.

For me the schools are the best. They are my favorite part. We have some opportunities to spend some time with the kids. I like when they start asking questions.

For us, our goals lie in the regular season. Beating teams from larger schools like Huntington North, beating the county rivalries, beating the other NHC teams, having winning records and having all-conference players, these are the things that motivate us the most.

For too long, access to some schools has only been open to those who could afford to buy an expensive house next to a good school, while the rest were told to accept what they'd been given,

For most voters, schools are the No. 1 issue,

For most positions on campus, the market isn't defined by all of the other D-I basketball universities. The competition here, for our academic positions, is schools similar to us in mission, size and geographic location. But in basketball, since we've garnered significant national attention, our market became national.

If it supports itself and helps the schools out and is available to everyone in town, that's something else. But we're sure not seeing that.

If it is passed, the legislation is meant to ensure that schools are doing what they are promising, and that student-athletes are graduating from college with meaningful degrees. That's always the objective.

I get used to it, ... One of the things I find is that schools and school boards get antsy about whether to have me there.

I give the founders credit, ... but it?s a business. You need to bring in the experts to run your business. Many charter schools just don?t do that. That gets them in trouble. If you don?t have experts across the whole spectrum of things, you?re lost.

I go stay a week in these little towns that don't have an art outlet and... go to the schools and play some of the old Texas music, sort of 'go through the Texas country roots' is what they call it.

I go into schools and show kids that there is music other than rap,

If we would let God into our schools under normal circumstances, then we probably wouldn't have to see our children turn to God when faced with this kind of evil,

If we're willing to grade 5- or 6-year-old children, we ought to be willing to grade the schools that they propose to perform for those children.

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.

If we lose this case you're going to see intelligent design taught in schools all across the country,

If that's the best opportunity to come around, that's what I'm going to do. A lot more schools have come to see me since I qualified. It feels good to have that off my shoulders. Now, I can relax and worry about leading my team to a championship.

If the competitive spirit leads to making a real difference and to having homes built and roadways cleared and schools started, it's a good thing,

If the government is going to mandate levels and punish schools for failing, they should send that money to the school system.

He won that event also. There were a lot more schools that day. There were schools from Connecticut and New York at that meet.

He will have roughly 14 and 15 months to complete the work at that school, which is a fair amount of time seeing as we've had some other middle schools built in only 12 months. We think we're giving them a fair amount of time to complete the work.

He hasn't given me any real hints. But I know BYU and Arizona State are both schools he's giving a lot of thought to.

He has a list of schools he's interested in. I wouldn't go so far as to say he's made up his mind or even has a top five.

He has plans of going onto a Division 1-A college on a football scholarship. Even though he is only a junior, a lot of schools have expressed an interest in him. He is also an excellent student, according to what I have learned,

He had a clean record at all of the schools he's been at. He hasn't been a disciplinary problem. He's never been in front of a juvenile judge. He's never had a criminal accusation. He's squeaky clean.

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

There is much more to schools than buildings. There are academic activities, how it reaches the community and its proximity to other programs.

There is no evidence I'm aware of that shows the education of aboriginal children is more successfully accomplished in band-operated schools anywhere in Canada.

There is growing concern about the quality of education available in our public schools especially for less fortunate New Yorkers, and there is also greater interest in choice. New York pays top dollar for what tends to be middle-of-the-pack performance ... and they are getting tired of it.

There is excitement in the air, ... We're not going to be a big draw like the over-the-mountain schools are. But the crowds have been supportive.

The purpose of our public schools must be first and foremost to provide quality education for our children. While this should be done within the financial means of the district, the emphasis must be on providing a quality education.

We're proud of the job our schools have done in keeping pace with technology and preparing students for success in a technology-dominated world. This contest reflects our high school students' achievements, and recognizes the talents they have developed.

We're promised replacement parks, which are really park features. These will be five years down the road once everything else is finished. What is the community to do? What are the 40 some odd schools in the area who utilize these parks to do for all that time?

We're pretty beat up. We've got some guys playing sore and having to get them ready to play by Thursday, but that's part of the way it is. We haven't played an (easy) opponent like some schools play early in the year.

We're opening up the doors of the schools to the community and we'd like to see as much community involvement in our schools as possible.

We're one of the smallest schools competing in the Division I meets, so our focus is getting as many kids as we can through to the next level.

We're now up over 50 percent of the schools (are wired for Internet access), from 3 percent, and over 80 percent of the classrooms, from 14 percent, since 1994.

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.

What I like about the new framework is that it's based on research and best practices, ... The state has set a criteria, but it's not telling schools how to get there.

We support kids whether they go to public schools, private schools or if they are home-schooled. It's not limited. The more extraordinary the experience the better. It's our way of encouraging students to strive for excellence.

We studied other middle schools and we went very slow. We set ourselves a 10-year goal to make a really good middle school.

We think that it's time for a moratorium on new charter schools so that we have an opportunity to take stock to see how those charter schools that have been in existence fare.

Having them (Planned Parenthood) handle sex-ed programs in public schools is not a wise investment for our tax investors.

Having the best public schools in the country within the next 10 years will require putting the schools back in public school finance reform.

Gulf Coast teachers who have lost or left their homes due to Katrina's devastation are being forced to make important decisions on how to continue with their lives, ... Here in Florida we have a critical need for qualified teachers and that need increases each day as our state population grows and schools struggle to meet class size requirements. We welcome these evacuated teachers and students alike with open arms and waiving the certification fee is one small effort to make this transition as smooth as possible.

Going in and telling schools what to do is just going to make everybody mad and not get to the goal,

Going back to the '60's, we're one of the only schools that plays them year in and year out. When you play somebody for that period of time you're going to have that rivalry.

Good disaster response planning requires broad involvement of several community groups. Pediatricians, local school officials, school nurses, public health officials, emergency officials and school physicians should work together to improve the preparedness of schools for the unwelcome possibility of a mass casualty event.

Going to the NCAA Tournament will help us in recruiting state kids. When they get recruited by big out of state schools I think this NCAA bid will help. We want to keep our talent and kids in state.

His proposal is that if schools in the inner cities receiving federal money fail to do the job after three years, the money follows the job, ... Meet the Press.

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.

Hopefully, this will become an annual event for our Belleville schools. This isn't about competition among schools to see what has the best peace ball; this is to draw attention and to recognize and support and give positive feedback to kids who are being peaceful. From what I've seen, I feel pretty good about peace here in Belleville winning over conflict.

There are no second chances on this or we could see our schools out of control.

There are no new programs, ... There are some refinements to existing programs. We're continuing to hone our schools to meet the needs of all of our kids.

There is a national problem with suppressing free speech at high schools and colleges in the name of political correctness, and it disproportionately affects conservative and Christian students and student organizations.

There are obvious problems with so many denominations in schools today, but I had collective worship at school and I do not think it is a bad thing.

Unless we arrest the wasting decline of our public schools America is destined to be an also-ran in the emerging digital economy,

We met last year and talked about the state requirements (on elementary and middle schools), and we all felt that it was a matter of time before High schools were involved in that.

We make no apologies for setting high standards. Our work to make UC one of the best schools in the country continues,

We have to be competing with other sports like golf, tennis, table tennis, football but bridge has its attractions. It stimulates the mind and facilitates a great deal of social interaction. We want to go into the schools and say to the principals 'bridge is a game just like chess' that can stimulate students to think analytically and to develop his or her mental skills. We will send bridge teachers into schools.

We looked at it, but it wasn't the answer. Our representatives felt that where it was good for schools with all strong programs, it didn't work with weak programs.

We look at history, ... We look at counts. We look at where schools are in terms of staffing. We make phone calls to schools. I also bring in e-mails from principals regarding requests. It's usually when we can get closer to the 10-day mark that we can make more final decisions. That's not to say we won't make some decisions. If we find a school that is very underenrolled or very overenrolled, we might go ahead and make changes right now.

We made way too many mistakes. Some of them were caused by Scott, and some were just bad decisions. It's very disappointing. Both teams showed a lot of heart tonight. It was a lot of up-and-down play, and that caused some sloppiness. But both schools can be proud of the representation of their teams tonight.

Hunger, inadequate medical care, poor housing, and inferior schools are enemies of the sense of wonder. It is easier and less expensive in the long run to prevent a loss of imagination by providing adequate nutrition, housing, medical care, and schooling than it is to try to restore that loss.

He was obviously a tremendous player. Normandy doesn't have the resources that a lot of public high schools have; the facilities were very poor. But he still excelled.

He was talking about how those businesses should be able to move wherever they damn well please, and we never supported that. We didn't want them to go to neighborhoods or near churches or schools or anything like that.

He was so far ahead of his time as far as basketball was concerned, ... We pressed and played different zones and did things that weren't commonplace back then. And, as a result, we were able to compete with the big schools in the Rochester area.