I sense a difference at both schools. There's an atmosphere that learning is the most important thing.

Does spending more per student lead to increased learning? That's a difficult one. At many schools, the faculty is being paid for its research abilities, not its teaching skills.

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.

We need schools to be areas of safety that are conducive to learning.

The teams that the Rose Bowl wanted were the big name schools. Alabama was the third choice behind Duke and Princeton to play Washington.

It's all part of smart growth, ... It's accessible to transportation, shopping, schools, parks. . . . It's ready for families to move in.