These programs take money from school children, from parks, from law enforcement, and from other general fund priorities that badly need the funds.

We'd rather put the money into the school for the children than into some portables.

The requirement is that priorities need to be established first, they need to be approved by the state school board, and then you go about doing a plan. You don't do it backwards, you don't develop a plan without the state school board first setting those priorities, and that was the fatal problem.

It is needed now. It is one of the top priorities the county is putting money into.

Law enforcement officials have told us there is no reason to believe the school children were involved. They are both very young students.

My main priorities are to increase the student numbers, keep the school functioning well and maintain a superior academic environment for the students.