The three kids that have been doing well continue to do well.

We want to teach the kids how to think, how to analyze and how to find connections.

Kids don't want a walkie-talkie that looks like a cell phone, ... They want a cell phone.

Basically, taxpayers would pay $2.4 billion in higher taxes to get four percent more of our kids into preschool. That just doesn't seem like a very good bang for the buck. Rather than focus resources on the state's most pressing needs or helping parents of low-income families who need the most help sending their kids to preschool, this flawed measure creates a subsidy for rich and middle-income families that already send their kids to preschool.

The kids really sold that vote, more than any adult, any administrator or any school board member who was there, in my opinion.

I go to see my kids in school plays, ... I watched Lorna in a concert at the Westminster College of Music the other day and it was amazing. I felt very proud – and surprised. I don't know why I was surprised, because I've known her for 17 years, but I've never seen her do anything like that in front of an audience. It's brave, it's uplifting.