It's something that is just starting to come to the surface. I hope we can find some sort of answer, but no matter what the answer is, it's going to cost money.

I know of several, myself included.

It sounds pretty simple until you start asking the questions, such as what is the definition.

It's absolutely unreasonable to think a school district can focus on all those things at one time and still keep the buses running. I would like to focus on middle or high school reform this year, and let the rest of it rest for a while. . . . Someone once told me if you have 50 priorities you really don't have any.

Hope is a verb with its shirtsleeves rolled up.

We hope to discuss the issue in the next executive committee meeting and once we have agreed we shall make the recommendation to the council before we reply to the request.