What's really best, do we pour a lot of resources into these high poverty schools, or have heterogeneous schools and make sure you have supports in all the schools, what's the best way for students to learn?

We will never go back to an unfair system of unequal schools, ... We can do it and we will do it.

What keeps people attached to poverty? The public schools.

I think most parents are satisfied with the neighborhood schools. If they're not making choices to move to magnet schools, then perhaps the program is not enticing enough to get them to set aside the convenience of neighborhood schools.... For example, bus rides (to magnet schools) are over 45 minutes each way. It is a great impediment to people making that choice.

The job takes a lot of patience, a working knowledge of special education law, which is highly complicated, and an ability to have a vision for meeting the needs of students whose needs are not usually met in a school setting.

We're very excited to have Bonnie step into this position. On top of her special educational experience, what she brings is a familiarity with the Burlington schools that will ease the transition for everybody.