We don't want to have available seats in nearby schools. The district is looking to move students to seats.

I think we can move some students. If we could do it, we'd love to accommodate them.

There's a war going on. There's not a huge pipeline of Ph.D. students in graduate schools, and all the best schools in the country are fighting for the same group.

Schools like Grove City, Brigham Young, and Hillsdale are some of our more popular schools. Their students are usually of very high caliber.

We have been contacted by several member schools that already have enrolled students from Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi displaced by the storm,

We have two schools with high numbers of disadvantages students. Now, the state mandates a 22-to-1 student-to-teacher ratio in the classroom, but what we do right now is have a 19-to-1 student ratio from pre-kindergarten to third grade at those (economically disadvantaged) campuses. The third grade is when they start TAKS and reading. We want to make sure we have those kids prepared for their future. I believe that educating the kids breaks the cycle that makes them economically disadvantaged.