Brian McDonald Quotations

We're in the middle here. We haven't created this law, so the state can't bend the rules here so to speak in terms of switching guidelines or allowing counties to be flexible about compliance.

It's certainly a program area that we would encourage school districts to partake in. We would offer them guidance as to local independent agencies that could certainly assist in offering any type of programs geared towards character education.

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From what I understand, they'll probably uphold it.

Westmoreland County, under what's provided by federal law, has to change their voting machines anyway. What it boils down to is there are two types of laws here. ... From our standpoint, it's pretty cut and dry. The federal law says what it says.

We don't know how they're coming up with their figures.

You can say that's a higher-than-normal number of challenges being filed, but by the same token, there's a higher number of folks seeking election, too.

The guidelines that have been set to address the achievement gap can only be done fairly and accurately if you pinpoint a number, and that number is 40.

Stories are the collective wisdom of everyone who has ever lived. Your job as a storyteller is not simply to entertain. Nor is it to be noticed for the way you turn a phrase. You have a very important job--one of the most important. Your job is to let people know that everyone shares their feelings--and that these feelings bind us. Your job is a healing art, and like all healers, you have a responsibility. Let people know they are not alone. You must make people understand that we are all the same.

We think that federal law trumps what's in state law. You would not have to put this to a vote.