Howard Lee Quotations

I am surprised at the number of kids who are leaving the school. That did surprise me. We don't know if we can ever resolve that particular problem.

Today is a great day in the state of North Carolina. The greatest lottery winners will be our children.

We must find creative ways to re-energize students and get them to be prolific readers.

We do students a disservice to send the message that it is acceptable to drop out of school when they are 16 years old. A high school diploma is a minimum requirement for future success, and we will continue to press for changing the compulsory school attendance age.

Today's report shows we still have a lot of work ahead of us.

We need to take a comprehensive look at the needs across the state. That would give us a solid base to hold discussions with the legislature.

We began an aggressive reading strategy through Reading First two years ago in nearly 100 elementary schools with low reading achievement across the state. These efforts, which involve students in the early grades, will show up on NAEP measures in future years, and will give us a roadmap for expanding this approach to providing professional development, building leadership and strengthening reading instruction in more schools in our state.

We've been seeing a significant amount of membership growth.

You might be saying, 'I love you' to your girlfriend in Cantonese, but it will still sound like you're fighting. It's just our tone. We always sound like we're in a shouting match. Mandarin is so mellow. Cantonese is strong and edgy.

This is fantastic. This is a great day in the state of North Carolina.

For a small carrier, the thing that might be good with rate regulation is that it prevents larger carriers from undercutting and provides us a way to remain competitive in the marketplace. A lot of carriers don't like it because it's an inconvenience and costly, but if you look at it from a consumer's standpoint we have to be able to justify our rates to our consumers and that's the bottom line.

I'm hopeful today that we will have a superintendent.

The Legislature will not waste taxpayers' money and come back to town to do something this board has already done.