I would love to get more much students involved. I've been talking to teachers and parents trying to get everyone interested in this important event.

They're trying to see how teachers and students in this area are coping with everything.

Just as teachers put together report cards for their students at the end of the term, so do we at the end of the legislative session. We're willing to support any candidate who will stand up for kids and education.

When I visited China, ... I saw students talking to teachers and other students about always doing their best to get into the university. Our students have the opportunity to go to great schools. We really have got to light a fire under them.

[Congratulating principals, teachers, parents and students,] on a truly remarkable year, ... another encouraging sign that our reforms are taking hold.

The teachers at Lake Powell Academy, as well as the parents and students, put a lot of effort into improving the programs, so that result is not surprising. Achievement was not an issue in our closing; it was strictly financial.