Terry Abbott
Terry Abbott
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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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The action by our police department was immediate, as was the action by school officials.
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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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What's at stake is reputation of the school district and the learning of the children. Those are very important things and we can't leave that to chance.
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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 having more patrols outside of the schools in the morning bell time and afternoon bell time, and also during cafeteria time -- lunch time.
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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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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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All of these schools are big, and they all have doors around the campus, and obviously if a door is left ajar, certainly it is possible for someone to get in. That's why we have officers walking the halls and teachers walking the halls and administrators walking the halls, looking for anyone who is there who shouldn't be there.
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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.