We’re working always to improve it, but we certainly have invested a lot of money in recent years to make security upgrades.

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...

These saved seconds will reduce the number of delays in our busiest airports.

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...

The idea is to move the program, but to keep the idea behind delivering special services for these students.

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

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...

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

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

We’re trying to work with the kids to show them the right ways to do this and to keep them in school.

Everything went very smoothly today. We’re very proud of the kids and the staff.

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...

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.

We don’t know at this point when we’re going to resume classes. There’s no way for us to know.

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.

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...

All of these schools are big, and they all have doors around the campus, and obviously if a door is left ajar, certainly it is possible for someone to get in. That’s why we have...

The student shouldn’t have been, even though this was part of an active drug investigation, strip searched.

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.

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.

We are investigating whether HISD policies and procedures were violated in the way the search was conducted.

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.

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

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.

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.

It’ll help out a great deal. This entire exercise has been a huge undertaking by the district for a worthy cause.

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.

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

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

There’s nothing we can do about that. There’s a finite amount of money. That’s a fact of life.

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....

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.

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.

If parents want Johnny to eat chips one day a week, they can go in and make changes to allow them to buy a bag of chips on, say, Fridays.

The action by our police department was immediate, as was the action by school officials.

We’ve gotten some real ugly things. It’s been disappointing.

[Several school districts, including Houston ISD, said they would close Thursday and Friday.] We don’t know at this point when we’re going to resume classes, … There’s no way for us to know.

We’ve done an enormous amount of outreach on this. Ultimately it’s the parents’ choice.

Our police department keeps a pretty close watch with their gang-intervention officers, and the police chief (John Blackburn) said we have not seen an increase in gang activity. Kids still fight like they do anywhere...

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...

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.