Based on talking to other schools, it typically takes two to three years to get the numbers up.

You're talking about neighborhood schools on one hand and about pulling out two of our neighborhood schools ... on the other. That's why we want to keep a neighborhood school in Turtle Creek.

That was kind of tough because my father (Raymond) taught in the schools here. She was always talking to young people about education, always counseling young people to go to school, get an education. 'Education is your ticket to anything you want to do.' That's why she paid for so many kids to go to school.

Enough schools may have started earlier this year, and, as a result, the increase in employment came in August and not in September.

I think even the mayor will admit that the schools have been so neglected that we're really talking about peanuts in terms of making them look like we want to educate children.

Our ski schools are filling up, which is the way we track it. From talking to our lodging partners in the area, many of them are booked solid for the week, and the last-minute bookings are filling up as well.