Terry Abbott
Terry Abbott
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Mr. Rios used taxpayer-funded school equipment to copy and distribute to children an offensive statement. The principal exercised his authority to remove Mr. Rios as junior varsity baseball coach, and it certainly was an appropriate decision.
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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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The quickest way to earn a ticket out of Jones High School and into detention is to hurt one of those students from New Orleans. They've made it very clear to the Jones High School students that the children from New Orleans are our guests. We must treat them with all the dignity and respect we can.
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We're looking at whether we can and should disperse some of the children into different schools.
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We must continue to match resources with the needs of our children. Our children deserve the best education we can give them, and it's very important that we make absolutely the best use of these resources we have available.
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They've made it very clear to the Jones High School students that the children from New Orleans are our guests. We must treat them with all the dignity and respect we can.
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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.