Wayne Blanton Quotes (13 Quotes)

We can't keep up. We're four and a half billion dollars short on the construction side. If that's what you have to trade for five more students, then that's maybe what it takes to trade.

Our position is that statewide, the school board has a budget and allocates money to all schools in their district. We don't want legislation, the courts or anyone else telling us where to spend portions of (the districts') budgets.

At the local level we know where the schools are. We can go out and see them. We can plan.

We'll face a critical shortage in the next couple of years if we don't do anything. We thought housing prices would have cooled by now, but they haven't. And that's bad news.

Overall, it's a very good budget. It's a 6 percent to 7 percent increase. Considering what other states are doing, it's substantial.

You either believe in local control or you don't. If someone has a problem with starting dates of school they should go before their local school board and press that.

I have seen it time and time again. You dictate what you want that leadership to do. When that happens, you will see an improvement in education in this county.

We have tremendous concerns in three areas transportation, because of rising fuel costs utilities, because of rising fuel costs and increases in health care costs. We could have given teachers a 7 percent pay raise instead of taking those things away. We could have hired more of those teachers at a higher salary.

We think we're going to get it fixed legislatively. It has always been our policy that we'd rather legislate than litigate.

Whether you agree or disagree with his policies, he has provided a lot of emphasis on public schools. Engaging the public in the school debate ... creates a better atmosphere.

The list is ludicrous. I think the intelligent voter would look at this and say this is so far off, it's incredible.

We met with Senate and House leaders, and they felt they could cure it during the session. I'm very confident schools will be able to use co-teaching.

We would like to see some of that money spent as pay-as-you-go for capital expenditures. We are so far behind both in our growth for capital outlay and meeting class size that we've got to come up with some substantial dollars in this year, and that would be one way to do it.