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

They use [how much] money they've spent as a measure of success because there's very little else to measure.

tremendous disappointment of millions of taxpayers and teachers and parents over this Legislature's failure to act on property tax relief and education reform.

We don't have any money allocated for that. I feel bad for parents who work until 5 or 6 and won't be able to see their kids play.

It's a no-lose situation for the children, the parents and the community. That's wonderful. It's money well spent.

What Tami did is she took the money, the registration money that the parents paid for their children to play and put it in her own pocket.