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Final Grades 

Everyone ostracized her. But after last week's election, the new School Board should get behind Kim Gray.

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“If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.” -- Susan B. Anthony Maybe, just…

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