Terry Abbott

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  www.click2houston.com/news/14031333/detail.html - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 9/2/2007    Last Visited: 9/2/2007  

  Houston Independent School District spokesman Terry Abbott said the custodians were not cleaning mold when the incident happened.
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  Abbott said fumes from the bleach made the custodians sick.They have all been treated and released from the hospital and cleared to return to work, Abbott said.
  
  Abbott said the school district aggressively finds and cleans mold.He said the building would be cleaned and ready for students on Tuesday.
  
  Thomas said she is not sure how safe the students will be.
  
  "No kids are in that classroom, but they have kids in the classroom next to those sick rooms," she said.
  
  Abbott said studies have not shown unusual amounts of mold in the building.
  
  Three air conditioning units were stolen from the school during the summer.Abbott said those thefts hampered the district's ability to keep the building cool during the summer break.

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  www.bloghouston.net/item/7182 - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 6/30/2008    Last Visited: 8/26/2008  

  Terry Abbott, HISD's press secretary, resigning (School Zone)
  
  HISD press secretary Terry Abbott will be leaving his post for the private sector at the end of August (School Zone).

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  Published on: 4/22/2008    Last Visited: 4/23/2008  

  "Anything students do along those lines is strictly voluntary, on their own, similar to the hands-around-the-flagpole kind of events," noted Terry Abbott, spokesman for HISD.

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  Published on: 1/5/2008    Last Visited: 1/7/2008  

  At the press conference, Porter was surrounded by Terry Abbott, a friend and the former chief of staff at the U.S. Department of Education, and public relations associates with Saxum Communications.

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  Published on: 6/23/2008    Last Visited: 6/24/2008  

  "We've got bus drivers that can barely afford gas for their own cars and cafeteria workers that can't afford enough food for their own kitchens," said Terry Abbott, spokesman for the Houston Independent School District, which has 30,000 employees.

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  www.click2houston.com/news/16700502/detail.html - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 6/24/2008    Last Visited: 6/24/2008  

  "For a long time, we used these type of Styrofoam trays, that if you throw them in a landfill, they take up to 400 years to biodegrade," said HISD spokesman Terry Abbott.
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  The new trays would degrade in nine months, according to Abbott.

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  www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/5852568.html - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 6/23/2008    Last Visited: 6/24/2008  

  "We've got bus drivers that can barely afford gas for their own cars and cafeteria workers that can't afford enough food for their own kitchens," Houston Independent School District spokesman Terry Abbott said.
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  Abbott said about one-third of the school's 30,000 employees would qualify for a fuel check.

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  www.bloghouston.net/archive/1/2008-08 - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 8/1/2008    Last Visited: 8/26/2008  

  We heard from HISD's Terry Abbott who disputed Radcliffe's conclusion.Abbott said HISD advised Radcliffe the assertion might be wrong, and that HISD was running the numbers to see if the savings held up with the addition of the extra days at the end of the year.
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  Abbott requested a correction or retraction from the Chron, but so far the editorial leadership has declined.
  
  While Radcliffe's story features HISD, a sidebar notes August utility savings for fourteen school districts.

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  Published on: 5/27/2008    Last Visited: 5/27/2008  

  Houston Independent School District spokesman Terry Abbott said there were almost no kids in the school at the time the lockdown was ordered about 3 p.m. Classes had been dismissed at about 12:30 p.m. after exams school district officials said.

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  www.texanscareforchildren.org/innerpage.php?pageid=244 - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 10/31/2007    Last Visited: 1/26/2008  

  "It's a very difficult issue and the community seems to have a real good understanding of that," said Terry Abbott, spokesman for the Houston Independent School District, which had 22 high schools on the list.
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  Abbott echoed the mobility issue, citing a ninth-grader who starts in one school and graduates in another can count as a dropout, and HISD has many transfers within the district.
  
  "Calling them 'dropout factories' is just wrong.It's offensive to the many great men and women who give their lives to teaching children every day," he said.

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