Schools are making a very strong effort to provide intervention programs and crisis programs that really identify the needs of kids at early stages.

Currently we cannot respond to the needs of all these refugees, so this is becoming a real humanitarian crisis.

You would put schools into an impossible situation ... almost guaranteeing schools across the state will face fiscal emergency and crisis.

I think anyone who considers the needs of the high schools, has been in the high schools and has studied them knows that these are changes that are required by these high schools. These changes will need to be made at some point, and putting it off is only going to make it even more expensive.

We're going to be looking at our highest-needs schools first.

We have a lot of needs in terms of things that are deficient in schools, such as deferred maintenance items. We tried to base the study on similar schools with similar facilities.