I'm really enjoying this. But I always enjoy coming up here and visiting my sister, my parents, my nephews. The fireworks, they're just a way that we can come together and celebrate together. Seeing them go off is fun, but doing this with family is what's important.

In the summer time, this parking lot will get full of little league ball players and their parents.

I think that sometimes kids use the show as a jumping off point for talking about things with their parents.

This has become so much more important in recent years, ... A lot of parents can't get to the school during business hours and some parents may be at home at 8 o'clock in the evening and may be wondering what's going on. Soon they'll be able to go online around the clock and check it out.

When our work is done, parents won't measure our success by how much money we spend, but whether more children learn.

The board needs to meet not only to discuss these two deals but the policy direction for the board itself to ensure we are doing the right thing with public funds.