I truly am an ambassador for Hilliard schools. One is heading off to college and one is in middle school and is active in sports. I will be freer to support her.

Students need to take more college preparatory courses in high school, and schools need to begin forcing their students to have a more rigorous senior year, instead of having a 'blow-off' year.

There's a high school in Camden, New Jersey, I call the Jill Scott School. It's the Camden Creative Arts High School. Those teachers and kids are so passionate about what they do, and 98 percent of the senior class went on to college.

There's a misconception that our students won't go to college. We offer everything other schools offer including college preparatory courses.

Sometimes you don't receive because you don't ask. Schools are competitive. They want numbers. They want the school full.

He designed the courtyards at Moss and Campbell schools, and did a master plan for the high school involving the fields project. He designed an outdoor environmental classroom at Edgar Middle School, and he worked with the Friends of Tommy's Pond on a planting design for it, for which students from his classes at Rutgers would also produce designs. Steve also designed the Carol Leach Memorial Garden at the First Presbyterian Church.