10 Quotes by Jim Baldwin

I'd been helping her in the classrooms, over the years, and had a growing interest in teaching as a rewarding and enjoyable profession.

Four or five years from now we'll be in the same position. The state board of accounts doesn't allow the 16 percent increase that you've budgeted in for 2010.

I enjoy managing projects and funds and manipulating and analyzing data to help students and teachers do what they do better.

My wife had been teaching, on and off, since the early '70s and, when we moved here in 1983, she restarted her teaching career in Fairfax County, ... I got into Northern Virginia's Cultural Arts program, doing storytelling at school assemblies.

My military background was in leadership roles, so it was a natural progression for me to move into administration, ... I felt I could do many of the same things I was doing, but on a schoolwide level.

The problem is you're asking the townships to come up with 20 to 30 percent more. The problem is we can't get 20 percent. We might be able to get 4 percent. When you change the rules, you price us out of the market.

The question is if you really want to change the rules, you've got to give us time. Nobody is rejecting the idea that the city provides a valuable service.

There needs to be more clarity. It's my understanding this is just a settlement, so therefore it doesn't change the laws or clarify any issues.

It's a great school, well organized, and it has good programs that I want to build on and keep going,