Terry Abbott
Terry Abbott
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It's historically a successful program, but it's small, and we think we will get more efficiency at Blackshear.
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He ran out in the street and held his hands out and stopped the bus. He jumped on the hood and then climbed on the roof.
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These saved seconds will reduce the number of delays in our busiest airports.
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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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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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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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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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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're looking at whether we can and should disperse some of the children into different schools.
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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.