Bill Wise Quotations

We're at the point now where the next recommendation looks like it will have to be a transportation reduction. I honestly don't think I can bring a recommendation before the board for another reduction in staff.

A hundred percent of anything is impossible when you're dealing with human beings.

This does not take us out of the education part of the program, it just takes us out of the child care end of it, which is probably not where we're best suited anyway.

Students will achieve no more than they are required to on a daily basis. Kids can tell how much a teacher cares about them, and they know how hard they are willing to work for the teacher.

It's been harder and harder for us to move this number up because tests we perform really well on have been taken off the table. Reading and math are really dominating the testing, where it used to be more of an equal balance in the past (with citizenship and science tests). It's kind of taken over the charts.

I'll be very honest, depending on how things go, I could be back here a year from now saying we need to make more cuts for the next year. But we believe that every year we can keep 3- and 4-year-olds enrolled in the programs, the better off we are.