Bill Smith
Bill Smith
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We had to redo the entrance. It went soft for some reason.
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I think sometimes we overly rely on (test scores), and we think it is the only indicator of a healthy school system, and it's not.
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Most recently, it's above that. We budget a contingency fund to deal with those extraordinary differences.
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My biggest concern is that we just play the kind of game we have been playing. We've gone 11-0 in the conference and we've played some really tough non-conference opponents. We just want to bring the same level of play that we have all season long.
buildings
Most buildings were pretty much gutted out if they were still standing.
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When the city has a good budget, we can plant a lot of trees, but when times are tight, you don't plant anymore than you have to.
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Whether he didn't see him or doesn't want to say, I don't know.
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We've got to get people back in the mode of parking here.
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We got it back, ... I compliment the quick work of everybody on this. ... The good news is it not only came back, it came back intact.
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We'll have a system that really works. We'll have a system that people enjoy using. There's a lot of votes down here in the three counties.
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We are really comparing apples to oranges when we do this. The state tests, they show how much a child learned based on instruction. ... The federal test focuses on a testing achievement using a norm scale.
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We are making steady progress as we gain access. Most customers will be restored within 30 days. However, some communities may take longer to rebuild in certain cases depending on when residents and businesses are able to return to these most affected areas and the time it takes to rebuild needed local infrastructure. New Orleans is an atypical situation given the floodwaters and access issues, and because of this, we will track restoration activity in New Orleans separately.
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We're going to pay it one way or another. We think paying based on what the actual costs are over a 5 percent difference is a good way to do this. It's not that we're unconcerned; it's just the price of doing business.