There will emerge some promising practices and recommendations that will be a model for all schools. ... It's going to be raising the bar for all students.

More money will definitely help with the class size amendment to build schools, hire teachers and pay them a living wage to actually buy a home and live in our community.

We're always encouraging our schools to do anything they can to help families keep the costs down. We're always encouraging them to market themselves. It's a benefit.

They're going to have research-based principles, model programs to learn from. They're going to learn from one another. The Escondido district is going to be part of the larger PROMISE family.

If the mother of small children was sick, they would stay overnight and take care of the children.

It was kind of on a dare. If the food wasn't good, they were just going to leave.