We?re one of the few high schools in the state with electronic portfolios. Almost all state (post-secondary) schools in Minnesota and Wisconsin are requiring these now.

Students walk out of here with a unique tool: a complete portfolio, a functional résumé, and a cover letter.

If you?re going to go to college for something, you?d better be sure you?d really like to do it.

I'm enjoying every minute. I see a lot of friends doing what I do at other schools, and they've never gotten close.

We have a law that allows us to establish charter schools here in this state. We ought to get going on it.

Like healthcare preparedness that preceded it, schools are one of the two 'magic bubbles' where we seem to think our children are somehow divinely protected when we put them on the bus each day. We have infrastructure that is in some cases over 100 years old, and built in a time, and in a manner, for the era when chewing gum was the major crime on campus. Today, we have to appreciate that natural disasters are on the rise, as is crime, in and around school campuses.