We need to be careful about the precedents we're setting on caps for charter schools. We need to look at the caps as a whole.

Precedents are dangerous things; let the rein of government then be braced and held with a steady hand

All bad precedents begin as justifiable measures

Just because other schools and counties are doing it, it doesn't mean we necessarily have to follow it. We need to do what's best for the children in our area.

It's strictly 1A schools from here, and I think by the end of the year we can be one of the better 1A schools. We may not have won conference since 1998, but we've won three state championships since then. That's what we're shooting for now.

If we hadn't fought for them, our schools would have received an amount so low it would have again required cutting calendar days and other devastating cuts,