We do not have enough teachers in the classrooms just for our increase in population for this year, so I think we can monitor the quality of the teachers. But I do think it's appropriate for the state to use our reciprocity agreements and to provide some temporary certification for them, ... We're seeing a dramatic increase by the way in the number of students. It doubled yesterday. I think it went from 1,000 to 2,400 in one day. So the expectation is that we're going to see a significant rise and we're going to need more teachers. |
We don't have the need to evacuate 4 1/2 million to 5 million people. It's not feasible and it's not necessary. |
We expect to have more beach erosion, unfortunately, lots of rain, potential flooding, ... This is a serious storm, and we urge people to heed the advice of local officials when they make their announcements about evacuations ... if necessary. |
We expect to have more beach erosion, unfortunately, lots of rain, potential flooding. This is a serious storm, and we urge people to heed the advice of local officials when they make their announcements about evacuations ... if necessary. |
We have ample resources to meet whatever comes, |
We have basically made a call out to the rest of the United States of America for a short period of time, anybody who's got water, ice or some version of a MRE (meals ready to eat), we would take everything they've got, |
We have made our position very clear, |
We need a little further wind at the back of this economy, |
We say this for each one of the storms that we have to deal with in our state. It is more dangerous after a storm than during a storm, |
We thought it would be close. Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine it would be this close, ... I have the greatest confidence in the independently elected bipartisan group of county supervisors of elections that exist all across our state. |
We thought it would be close. Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine it would be this close. I have the greatest confidence in the independently elected bipartisan group of county supervisors of elections that exist all across our state. |
We want to demystify the FCAT so that critics of accountability and assessment can't try to scare people or confuse people, |
We worked on this all night long, and today there's significant improvement in the supply, |
We, in all likelihood, are going to have significant shortages of gasoline, ... I would urge people to recognize this - not to hoard, not to top off every tank that they have. We have a plan in place to bring supplies back to our state. |
We'll be ready for what comes, ... But the folks in Northwest Florida have gone through a lot. |