We have kids who are disgruntled at school. At Flight School, these kids are really digging learning.

This stinks. Why is my mom is making me come to school on Saturday?

We're hoping that motivation will carry over into a regular school. Our goal is to help these students be successful as citizens, and the FCAT is only a piece of that.

We know that kids with quality early learning opportunities are more likely to graduate from high school, more likely to graduate from college, and more likely to earn higher income. And we know for every one dollar we invest in early education, we save seven dollars down the line in welfare, special education, and criminal justice costs. Our children deserve the chance for an early start on success.

School districts throughout the state are using the tort fund to balance their budgets because they can secretly, without voter approval, impose a virtually unlimited tax. This is a widespread practice throughout the State of Illinois. The Stephenson County cases are the first cases in the State of Illinois to successfully challenge the illegal use of the tort fund to pay salaries. [So far] the taxpayers [have] won the majority of the issues that were before the court.

Kids are getting more and more reading and math and they need help. Cool School is there to make learning as enriching as possible.