I absolutely believe they should have recess. I'm a liaison for the school, and I'm the one who's advocating for recess.

The idea is to have a dedicated funding source for at least 10 years so the school system knows what its capital funding from the city will be and can plan accordingly.

You don't wait until you show up on the first day (of middle school) and expect someone's going to tell you what to do.

The school board right now is not paying anybody for busing, and their mandate is to supply a daily bus service for our children.

I might be pursuing a career in making hydrogen cars, ... There's a scientist in Kansas City, he has a school - Dr. Billings - he's been looking for some young Cherokee students around the Tahlequah area to come and learn his trade and then bring it back to our country and start business there.

I worked at Bowman Gray School of Medicine before I became a mom. That's been about 15 years (ago). It is very scary. I guess you kind of go back to what you know.