We're advising the schools to open their doors to these children and we're offering all the help that we can.

Meanwhile, we've got schools that are failing. Those computers are not going to help those children. Not one bit.

The progress is just amazing. The children are in our schools; the parents are in our community. When we work together, we just make the community better. The more we can do, the better product our schools are going to have.

That certainly is not much of a consensus as when you have a 7-1 or 6-1 vote. And I know the board vote weighs heavily in that (TEA's) decision.

If recapture is in place still this fall and, if they haven't shared their wealth as they are required to do by law, then they become subject under Texas law to detachment and annexation, or consolidation.

The parents and teachers need to know their reading scores in the next two weeks so that they can get some additional help or remedial intervention for those who didn't pass.