Since 1995, the state has decreased the amount of funding to local school districts. Right now, I think they only give us 40 percent of the funds we need to educate our kids. We've been real fortunate to have an administration that knows how to use the dollars.

Billy Thompson

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This is really the school that's designed to help children. We've got the right people in there to do that. We just have to stop what we're doing in terms of suspending them out of there, so I'm confident those students see some positive changes while there,

— Dennis Thompson

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In high school certainly you can do a lot of things to increase attendance, but certainly if there's an adverse consequence the kids have set up and taken notice that underage citations are being given out and they're getting back to school,

— Dennis Thompson

He's still doing what he did in high school, lighting up the guns.

— Justin Thompson

What message are we sending? ... This is a reflection of what we as a school system and as a city are providing for our students and it's not a good image.

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The School Committee withdrew that request, ... We will manage within our own budget.

— George Thompson