What we were trying to do was put decision-making back between local teachers and local school boards, and we freaked out the world.

It would allow the governor to cut funding three times a year and would make it almost impossible for school districts to truly budget -- long range or even medium long range.

As a school board member it?s a very tough decision to make a choice like this but I have to look at the dollars being saved.

They don't want to lay off teachers, we don't want to lay off teachers, and we're trying to cut our losses both of us.

Teachers are doing assessments already. We are trying to fill the gaps now. We're not waiting until December to fill gaps.

I was always the kid in school that teachers were getting after to be quiet. My report card had math, A, reading, A, spelling, A, science, A, conduct, F. I was always talking to somebody. They would always take me and put me over in a corner by myself.