This is a great building. They have a great leader in Jim Pauley and they have a great staff. And from what I saw, it looks like they have the makings of a great student body.

It's kind of hard to talk about this with all of the human suffering going on, but it's a reality, ... I've heard as much as 25 percent of fuel comes through ports and refineries in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, so this is going to have an impact on fuel.

The state has already allocated money to the districts for transportation costs, ... I hope the state steps up to help us, or this will be money that will come out of the classroom.

We have absolutely not had any negotiations on it or offers. It's not for sale at this time. But no one knows what the future will bring.

There are a lot of hoops you have to navigate through.

Price is a big concern in school districts all over the state. We didn't necessarily look this carefully at our contracts before.

Over the years, there has been some gradual growth out there causing other schools to become closer to capacity.

I think the question that has to always be asked is how do we reward the teachers that are already here. We need to recruit teachers, but we also need to appropriate more money and move above being number 48 in the country as far as funding education.

I thought she would say she wanted something like designer jeans, which would have been hard to get.

Forty-eight ports makes good sense for us, ... We have a couple of suites connected over fiber with 30 to 50 users in each. We can buy a single switch for each suite instead of stacking multiples.