Terry Abbott
Terry Abbott
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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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He's a good educator who's done good things at that school. In this case he's made a mistake in judgment and he's been appropriately disciplined for it. It's appropriate for only the U.S. and Texas flags to fly in front of schools.
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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 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.
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The action by our police department was immediate, as was the action by school officials.
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If they get more than that, they don't get credit for their classes, so it could affect the promotion of students from grade to grade, and ultimately their ability to graduate on time.