Expulsion by the book, superintendent says Administrators' hands tied by state, federal statutes, schools chief contends 03/20/2002 By LORI PRICE / The Dallas Morning News BEDFORD - The Hurst-Euless-Bedford schools superintendent said Tuesday that administrators' hands are tied in cases involving zero-tolerance policies. The acknowledgement followed the expulsion of an honor student who was found to have a knife on school property earlier this month. During a news conference Tuesday, Gene Buinger said that if school district administrators could untie state policies that sometimes bind their hands in student disciplinary matters, many of them might. But they can't. "School...