I definitely prefer the fall for the test.

They have to get that foundation with words. . . . We've got to get them prepared for the high school experience,

Once we get the proposal from the athletic directors, then I will submit a proposal to the school board. Then, after the school board gets it, we will have a number of community meetings to get community input,

Teachers understand if they have testing in the spring that test will be an evaluation of that teacher who has had the kid all year.

Every day we wait puts our students at a disadvantage.

We want to make cuts as far away from the classroom as possible,

to become one of the best, if not the best urban school district by 2010.

I think Dr. King would be shedding a tear this morning, because we have done to ourselves what others could not do to us. Young people are killing each other for no reason.

Many people think there is a big gap ... We need to review the strengths he had.