The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 70, No. 251, Ed. 1 Wednesday, August 19, 1992 Page: 1 of 20
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Volume 70, No. 251
Telephone Number: 422-8302
Wednesday, August 19, 1992
Baytown, Texas 77520
50 Cents Per Copy
OBE draws fire
San Marcos parent blasts method
_ _ Photo by Carrie Pryor
driven by Joanne Davis Wall. Ms. Gregory was taken to the Baytown Medical Center.
Delegates say speech by
Gramm gives direction
By Lois M. Rodriguez
of Hie Baytown Sun
According to Pete Alfaro and Freddy Rios, Bay-
town delegates to the Republican National Con-
vention, U.S. Sen. Phil Gramm’s speech helped to
better define the Republican Party’s stance and
helped steer the straggling campaign in the right
direction.
“Gramm’s speech clarified the direction of the
Republican Party,’’ Alfaro said, crediting him for
comparing mid clarifying Republican and Demo-
cratic positions and accomplishments.
Like many speakers before him, Gramm took
the opportunity to blame the Democratic-led Con-
gress for the failures of George Bush’s term as
president. He blasted Congress for consistently
saying “no" to President Bush’s proposals to solve
tax, drag, crime, health cate and economic woes.
“Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
Give us a Republican Congress to work with Pres-
ident Bush and we will put American back to work
and put criminals in jail where they belong,"
Gramm said.
Gramm, who confessed to failing the third,
seventh and ninth grades, also depicted Bill Clin-
ton as a used car salesman "peddling his vehicle
for change — the wax job was shiny, the hubcaps
sparkled, the upholstery was spotless, the paint
was new. But when you looked under the hood,
you discover he is hawking a model from the 70s
— a Carter mobile with the axle b;oken and the
frame bent to the left.”
Gramm also compared Arkansas’ low rankings
in family incomes, law enforcement and environ-
mental policies with President Bush’s leadership
role in spreading freedom and democracy across
the globe.
I think comparing the two party positions was
effective,” Rios said. He added that it reinforced
what the party has stood for and how Ronald Rea-
gan and George Bush “changed the face of the
world.
"Bush will change the face of America now,”
Rios said.
Although Bush’s campaign has been faltering,
Alfaro said with the convention under way, “I’m
sure the president’s ratings are already going up.
“He is back in the race and we are moving for-
ward again," Alfaro said. “We were in neutral for
a while, but now, we’re moving forward.
‘‘This is just the beginning," he added.
Alfaro added, “We have got to get the message
out to the people and we need to clarify the plat-
form. Once they get the two messages they will
decide, and they will decide for Bush."
By Josh Daniel
of The Baytown Sun
The San Marcos school district’s use of out-
come-based education may have decreased learn-
ing and lowered teacher morale there, a parent
from San Marcos said Tuesday.
Jo Ann Carson, a founder of San Marcos’
Parent-Teacher Communication Network (PTCN),
told an audience of 25 Baytonians, including
Trustee Edward Lowell Hildebrand, that “grades
are up, learning is down and expectations are
down” since the San Marcos school district
instituted OBE last year. She likened the problems
to a “disease.”
“OBE was not doing what it is supposed to do”
in San Marcos, she told the audience. “Low
(Texas Assessment of Academic Skills) scores
haven’t come up, and high scores have come
down. That’s what OBE did in San Marcos.”
She said she has seen the Goose Creek school
district’s plan for implementing OBE, but could
not say whether that plan could suffer from the
same problems as San Marcos’ plan.
Ms. Carson added that the PTCN doesn’t think
OBE is being implemented properly in San
Marcos.
She also wrote recently that she thinks it
“plausible that certain aspects of OBE” involve
“teacher intimidation, grade inflation, diluted
academic standards, and declining performance on
standardized tests like TAAS.”
She said the Texas Education Agency has
scheduled an “accreditation visit” to San Marcos
because of falling TAAS scores there. She added
that the TEA placed one of the district’s schools in
the top 10 academic high schools in the state four
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years ago.
Goose Creek Superintendent Harry Griffith was
not at the meeting, but responded Wednesday tef
Ms. Carson’s reports of declining scores. “That’s;
not been the evidence we’ve discovered all over*
the country,” he said. “Scores have improved;
when teachers become clear about OBE.” v;
Teacher intimidation, Ms. Carson charged,
came from administrators trying to force new'
programs on unwilling teachers. But San Marcos-
administrators have “no malevolent intent,” she-
added. . j
“If there is a conspiracy” of San Marcos;
administrators in favor of OBE, she said, “it’s a;
conspiracy of ignorance and a conspiracy Of
profit. And whether that’s the same as here (irf
Baytown) is for you to decide.” ' S*
Griffith said Wednesday, “There is methodolo-j
gy out there to help our children learn better, andi
it would be professionally unethical to ignore that;
methodology,” he said. “We had better get about;
the business of helping every child do better in
school.
“I’m absolutely certain that (teacher intimida-
tion) has never happened at San Marcos. (Goose
Creek) will not tolerate intimidation, and I’m
confident that our principals have not intimidated
anyone. ~
“If teachers are feeling the pressure of change,
that’s a legitimate pressure because we have to do
better,” he said. “It’s healthy for our children.”
Griffith added that “our staff overall has
overwhelmingly reacted very well to the changes.
But none of them are forced.”
Ms. Carson said that some teachers were
reluctant to speak out against OBE for fear of
reprisal.
Board of Regents to look
at LC mission statement
By Kenneth Kesner
of The Baytown Sun
An expansion of Lee College’s mission
statement will be considered by the Board of
Regents at a meeting beginning at 6:45 p.m.
Thursday.
The demand on Lee College from local
business and industry for work force develop-
ment and training has resulted in training of Job
Training Partnership Act clients, counseling of
small businesses, retraining of students and
development of specialized courses for
community college does not specifically
address “work force development” and “liter-
ary and other basic skills” training, the resolu-
tion endorses expanding the “mission” of Texas
community colleges and encourages the Texas
Legislature to amend the appropriate statute.
Also on the agenda for action and/or discus-
sion at the meeting are:
—Consideration of state-authorized salary
increases for eligible employees. The $62,000
in increases are funded by the state, and will
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amount to about a one-half percent increase for
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employee upgrades, according to the resolution —Consideration of rental fees for LC facili-
to be considered by regents. ties, including classrooms, auditoriums, gym-
As the current mission statement of a nasium and swimming pool.
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MINI-THOUGHTS
Fear less, hope more.
Eat less, chew more.
Talk less, say more.
Hate less, love more.
Do all that and all
good things are yours.
(More or less, we
lifted that from an old
Swedish proverb.)
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Local band
students at
GOP gala
Five REL musicians;
one from Barbers Hill
Six local band students tuned
up for the Republication Na-
tional Gala Wednesday at die
George R. Brown Convention
Center.
From Robert E. Lee High
School were Josh Infante, se-
nior, and Tara Gray, sophomore,
who are members of the elite
Republican National Convention
Gala All-Star Band.
Performing with the Texas T-
Bones, a group of trombonists
and percussionists, were REL
students Jason Baker and Ryan
Haney, seniors, and Joel Rad-
ney, freshman.
Jennifer Riley of Barbers Hill
High School played in the All-
Star Band.
The bands’ duties Wednesday
included entertaining the media
and welcoming President
George Bush and Vice President
Dan Quayle and their wives at
the Brown Convention Center.
Director of the All-Stars and
T-Bones is Ken Dye, head of the
band department at Rice
University.
A1 Dennis: State
fund plan costly
By Amit Z. Baruch
of The Baytown Sun
MONT BELVIEU — A1 Dennis, Barbers Hill school super-
mtendent, said the redistribution of state education funds has
affected the district “astronomically.”
“This past year, the school board increased the tax rate ar-
ound 65 percent so we could fund the County Education Dis-
trict (CED), and maintain our local programs and standards,”
Dennis told the West Chambers County Chamber of Com-
merce. “It has cost us $9 million this year. The Board of Trus-
tees adopted the budget... and they did not raise the local
tax rate to compensate for this. But the CED may soon be
increasing its tax rate by an estimated 10 cents per $100 valua-
tion. This increase would be added onto the 82 cents per $100
valuation the CED already collects.”
Dennis also said the Texas Supreme Court found the CED
unconstitutional because it gave appointed officials the power
to allocate tax dollars, and did not give the voters political
recourse. The court ruled the CED would have to stop its re-
allocation in June 1993.
Dennis said as an educator he understood why the CED
redistributed funds for this year even after the system was
judged unconstitutional because, “If not, three-fourths of the
state’s schools would be closed because of lack of funds.”
Dennis also spoke about the state-mandated site-based man-
agement program saying, “It’s the right thing to do because
it’ll improve our students. It has been needed for a long time
When you ask people to make decisions that will affect them
on a daily basis, it’s astronomical how much accountability
they accept."
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Photo by Carrie Pryor
Chamber reception
Baytown Chamber of Commerce rolls out the welcome
mat tor new teachers at a reception at the Goose Creek
Country Club. From left are Steffani Box, education activ-
ities committee chairman; Calvin Jeffrey, new teacher at
Robert E.{ Lee High School; and Carole Opryshek, vice
chairman of the Chamber board of directors.
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Dobbs, Gary. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 70, No. 251, Ed. 1 Wednesday, August 19, 1992, newspaper, August 19, 1992; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1020727/m1/1/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 5, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.