Terry Abbott
Terry Abbott
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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.
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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 action by our police department was immediate, as was the action by school officials.
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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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Our office of inspector general is investigating inappropriate behavior at a school-sponsored event held off campus back in February.
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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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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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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.