The most memorable quotes in the Chattanooga Times Free Press for Jan. 25-30.
“There is no Plan B for what to do if the money doesn’t come this year. The money is coming. We’re moving toward that money even as we’re talking here. There is a plan and a strategy.”
— Chattanooga History Museum director Daryl Black on the financial shortfall that prevented the museum from opening
“If we now have a majority of students in our public schools who are performing at lower levels, then we are headed toward having an adult [workforce] in 10, 12 years not prepared for the higher-paying jobs.”
— Steven Suitts, with the Southern Education Foundation, who wrote a report stating that more than half of all U.S. students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a measure of poverty