Terry Abbott
Terry Abbott
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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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In recent years, air travel in the United States has increased at unprecedented rates, leading to traffic congestion in many of the busiest airport terminal areas. And that trend is expected to continue. This standard supports the technologies aimed at alleviating the congestion.
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We're a government institution and it's not appropriate to fly the flag of a foreign country over one of our schools. It was not the right thing to do.
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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've gotten some real ugly things. It's been disappointing.
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The action by our police department was immediate, as was the action by school officials.
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We understand the concern of the parents. Our first concern, of course, was the safety of the children. When TSU informed us that the building was dangerous, we moved very quickly to relocate the children. Officials here have worked many hours since then to find a permanent home for MCTC and have had many discussions with parents to keep them updated on the search.
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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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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 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 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 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.