Terry Abbott Quotations

Our office of inspector general is investigating inappropriate behavior at a school-sponsored event held off campus back in February.

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.

We're looking at whether we can and should disperse some of the children into different schools.

The principal has the ultimate authority for a school-sponsored event.

That's a class C misdemeanor with up to a $200 fine and they'll have to go to court with their parents.

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.

The system didn't break down, ... The system just wasn't designed to handle something so catastrophic.

It's historically a successful program, but it's small, and we think we will get more efficiency at Blackshear.

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.

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.