If the mother of small children was sick, they would stay overnight and take care of the children.

They're going to have research-based principles, model programs to learn from. They're going to learn from one another. The Escondido district is going to be part of the larger PROMISE family.

It was kind of on a dare. If the food wasn't good, they were just going to leave.

In a lot of places, there's things that work, but we also know that a lot of things don't work because of the achievement gap that exists.

There will emerge some promising practices and recommendations that will be a model for all schools. ... It's going to be raising the bar for all students.

We had lots of boyfriends, but I think they really came to see our mother.