This investment is a win-win. Teachers' salaries are increased, student achievement is improved and the taxpayer gets a good deal.

I told him to not say he was feeling great ever again.

It didn't take long living here to see the house has some serious problems.

The greatest investment one can ever make is the investment into humanity, for an achievement based on positive influence into people's life can stand the test of time, survive through the mortality of men and resound endlessly through posterity

Someone put it best the other day. What better investment in education can we make than in our teachers. We can have all the buildings, supplies ... but if we don't have teachers, it won't matter, and until we get salaries up we can't compete with other states.

One of the primary strategies to close the achievement gap is to provide high-quality teachers to students who need them most, and that's precisely what our recommendations are about. Right now those students aren't getting the highest-quality teachers, and until the district addresses that, it will continue to have an achievement gap.