The city was looking at other places besides schools -- spots where children are likely to be present. You can't make a law that lessens the effect of a state law, but you can make it more strict.

Biographical history, as taught in our public schools, is still largely a history of boneheads: ridiculous kings and queens, paranoid political leaders, compulsive voyagers, ignorant generals - the flotsam and jetsam of historical currents. The men who radically altered history, the great scientists and mathematicians, are seldom mentioned, if at all.

Both ... served our schools for many years. Both were role models for our youths and well liked by our community.

Islamic children should go to state schools and learn Italian, ... I do not want ghettos. Rather, I want an Italian Islam.

We have to be absolutely vigilant that those children aren't fleeing those schools,

And eventually, if the children in the two schools start to see themselves as a whole unit – less (as) competing schools and more of a school community and family – it will help make for easier transitions when they come together in middle school.