Famous Quotes & Sayings

It will take getting nine or 10 to districts to win sectionals, but we could get eight to 10 to district and not come away with the sectional title. Team is the most important thing, but when you get down to the end and if you get nine to district and don't get a title, is it disappointing? It's kind of a double-edged sword.

We're talking about potentially blighting one of the most historic districts in Buffalo.

Mahmoud Abbas

The parliamentary election will take place in all of the homeland districts on Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2006,

Michael Bennet

I am most interested in the outcomes at schools and school districts and ensuring that all kids are prepared for college and a career in the 21st-century job market.

The municipal water districts should be playing not just provider of the water, but playing the water cops.

I've never seen this before. I've been representing school districts since 1973, and I haven't seen anything like it.

The state has already allocated money to the districts for transportation costs, ... I hope the state steps up to help us, or this will be money that will come out of the classroom.

They've been on for a while, but it would be safe to say in recent years there's been more of a push. The school districts I've talked to do say it's helped with the discipline.

A lot of the districts aren't going to have money to pay their teachers come July if they don't do something.

Harold Brown

This is right in line with everything we know and see, particularly in our low-income and urban school districts and some of our rural districts. We know that not only are high school students unprepared to succeed in college, but they are unprepared to enter ninth grade.

The way the legislative districts are drawn, representatives handpick their voters and have tailor-made districts.

Newt Gingrich

As speaker of the House, I have a national obligation to all my members to be in their districts and go out and spread the message,

There are school districts that show a ton of success with demographics just like ours. Let's go see what the heck they're doing.

There are school districts that are trying to find minorities because of the populations they serve, and our staff works to make those connections.

To sell land, there is a procedure that school districts must follow, and it is pretty straightforward.

We think it screams for the three districts to come together. So they don't all have to fight over the last drop.

Districts would be able to use their tutoring and summer school money at their own discretion.

I don't think the situation was much different than what other growing school districts experience.

I'm really happy, and I know the kids are happy. It would have been nice to win it, but in the long run, districts really starts what matters as far as kids trying to get to state.

I'm proud of what we have accomplished. Winning districts back-to-back is hard. This is a tribute to our guys, who have been ready to play in every game. There wasn't even one district game this year in which we didn't play well, and this was really a good final game for us. Hopefully, we'll go into the playoffs with some confidence.

It was inspiring that we could win districts once. To come back and not be big-headed and win it two more times I think is great.

I had her tighten it up, move it over a bit. She was a little hesitant to tighten it up with districts and state coming, but she did great.

Before, we were just working with about 24 cities, which included fire districts within the four counties. Now, it's broadened the geography. . . . We could get right into the edge of Weld County.

Some school districts are at their maximum mill levy. They will see a 5.5 percent increase.

Schools and districts wouldn't face any sanctions because of the lateness of the tests.

School districts should be back in better shape, back to where they were before the hurricanes hit.

Jonathan Kozol

The inequalities are greater now than in '92. Some states have equalized per-pupil spending but they set the 'equal level' very low, so that wealthy districts simply raise extra money privately.

You will see a concerted effort in those districts by those folks who thought this was going to become law today to take another look at who their elected representative is.