It's good for the students to see that there are people out there in need. We've established a good relationship with the community, and we're focused on growing it.

Many of the students are non-Christians. We don't require (students to be Christian); there's no profession of faith.

The mission of the school is woven through everything we do here. We don't separate academics and religion; everything is connected.

Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave.

The stakes are high because there is added pressure on the districts this year not only to include more students, but to do well and to make sure that they show evidence that they have made adequate yearly progress.

We were out taping fliers to doors and trying to let people know what was going on,