Terry Abbott
Terry Abbott
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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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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 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 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 directed them to go back and run another set of background checks after the issue at Attucks involving the custodian because his initial background check had not produced any record of a criminal conviction.
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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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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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The principal has the ultimate authority for a school-sponsored event.
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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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We are investigating whether HISD policies and procedures were violated in the way the search was conducted.
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We don't know at this point when we're going to resume classes. There's no way for us to know.
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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're trying to work with the kids to show them the right ways to do this and to keep them in school.
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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.