Ed Murray: “It’s an opportunity gap”
Kate Martin: “Disparity between the haves and the have nots is probably biggest threat to education.”
Tim Burgess: ” If kids are not ready very very early in life, they’re going to have a rough time.”
Bruce Harrell: “I’m worried about a program that’s just neighborhood based. I want one Seattle.”
Mike McGinn: “Every kid deserves an equal chance.”
Peter Steinbrueck: “Growth needs to pay for growth.”
Omari Tahir-Garrett: “It’s a waste of time as long as you’re putting bad money behind good money.”
Charlie Staadecker: “We have to dream big,” as he invoked example of a “1937 high school in the Bronx.”
In a sort of spring training for the 2013 election run to become — or stay — Seattle’s mayor, eight candidates took the stage inside Garfield High Tuesday night for