Terry Abbott
Terry Abbott
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We want to make sure that our testing process is absolute integrity. Parents need to know that the academic results are real. They need to know that children are learning.
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Any student who engages in this kind of activity today can be suspended for up to three days, and may be removed from school outright. There also are severe academic consequences.
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We made that decision based on the educational needs of the children. We did not want to sacrifice four days of those kids' academic lives.
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These saved seconds will reduce the number of delays in our busiest airports.
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The student shouldn't have been, even though this was part of an active drug investigation, strip searched.
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Everything went very smoothly today. We're very proud of the kids and the staff.
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We have families who are under duress from what happened with the storm. It is natural that a situation like that is going to cause some tension.
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The system didn't break down, ... The system just wasn't designed to handle something so catastrophic.
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There's nothing we can do about that. There's a finite amount of money. That's a fact of life.
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We're a government institution and it's not appropriate to fly the flag of a foreign country over one of our schools. It was not the right thing to do.
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We have some really small schools that are so small that they can't even afford counselors, librarians and nurses. In order to do that, because of the fact that the Legislature is not giving us anymore money, we have to cut somewhere and what we are proposing to cut is part of the funding for the Project Grad program.
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We've gotten some real ugly things. It's been disappointing.
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We're working always to improve it, but we certainly have invested a lot of money in recent years to make security upgrades.
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We've done an enormous amount of outreach on this. Ultimately it's the parents' choice.