Gary Larson School Quotations

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

No one knows what the public school system is going to look like in 10 or 20 years, but we know it's moving toward being more innovative, more cutting edge or more designed to meeting the needs of individual students.

No one knows what the public school system is going to look like in 10 or 20Êyears, but we know it's moving toward being more innovative, more cutting edge or more designed to meeting the needs of individual students.

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.

You're seeing a shift within the charter school movement. The first 10 years were about creating choices for parents. The second decade is a focus on identifying successful models and replicating them as quickly as possible.

Charters give public school teachers the flexibility to design programs to the individual student needs. They no longer have to go to a distant bureaucracy to ask for permission. By being allowed to make their own decisions the teachers are able to create strong partnerships with parents.