We had to randomly distribute the students overloaded in that school into their second choice. That's the 30 students or so who got their second choice.

It was our goal for 100 percent of students to get their first or second choice, and that happened -- of the students who turned in their forms. I was pretty confident that it would happen because of the work we had done beforehand with surveys.

When students come to school and they don't have the supplies they need, they start off at a disadvantage. So if they know those things are waiting for them in the classroom, they come in a little more excited and a little more eager know that they have what they need to learn.

Because he did the high school, he has a really good idea of what we can do and not do.

Students forget they can use (the school of their choice) as a reference on how to write the essay.

It is true that for some students their first choice of school, based on geographical proximity, will be denied because other students' choices are granted in order to advance the overall interest in maintaining racially diverse school enrollments,