When a charter school opens up, typically they are inundated with parents who wish to enroll their kids as well as with applications from public school teachers who wish to teach there, ... They have a tendency to grow very fast.

Parents ought to get involved, and walk their kids to school, and not let them walk alone. There were some concerned parents at a PTA meeting in Northeast El Paso (Wednesday night), but we told them that their kids are safe at school. The campuses are still the safest place for them.

We have those indicators that kids are buying into the magnet school concept and that parents are supporting the magnet school concept.

The key question (for parents) is whether kids are doing better in regular school as a result of the services.

If the commitment to kids is that they'll go to college, the natural extension of our middle school is to create a high school that will walk them all the way to the school doors.

On Career Day in high school, you don't walk around looking for the cartoon guy.