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Learning setbacks coming
into focus with test scores
Saturday night headliner
Lonnie Jordan, War mark 50 years of performing
olunteers sought for
GC anti-bullying panel
Fireworks explode behind a United States flag during a Fourth of July celebration, on Ju y 4,1776, the Declaration of Independence was adopt-
ed by delegates to the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia. The 245-year-old founding document of the United States announced the
separation of 13 American colonies from Great Britain. Read the Declaration of Independence on Page 4A. (Associated Press photo)
wrote on her arm in her
eighth-grade, fifth-period
class on Sept. 18, 2019,
ceremony
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Two Baytown police officers and a jail-
er were indicted by a Harris County grand
jury for an alleged July 2019 assault of
man after a traffic stop.
Harris County District Attorney Kim
Ogg issued a strong statement in the wake
of the indictments.
The Texas Education Agency has re-
leased the spring State of Texas Assess-
ments of Academic Readiness results,
and it appears COVID-19 interfered
with students’ ability to meet the grade
level, causing a rise in this area from
2019 in almost all subject areas and
grade levels.
Mathematics reflected the most sig-
nificant decline across all grades.
Statewide, the percentage of students
reading at their grade level slid to the
lowest levels since 2017, while math
scores plummeted to their lowest point
since 2013. In total, about 800,000 ad-
ditional students are now behind their
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War begins playing at 8 p.m., right after the Peterson
When Lonnie Jordan takes the stage Saturday night Brothers at 6 p.m.
Math results showed significant grade level in math, the state said.
In Texas, 86% of students took the
tests this spring, down from a typical
rate of 96%.
Still, the early results provide some of
the firmest data yet detailing the ef-fects
of the March 2020 school shutdowns,
the switch to virtual learning and relat-
ed disruptions. They also line up with
trends seen in national stud-ies over the
past year: Students are behind in read-
ing and even farther be-hind in math.
Setbacks are sharpest among students
of color and those from low-income
families. Across all student groups,
those who spent more time learning
in-person had better exam scores.
Texas Education Commissioner Mike
Morath said it’s “painfully clear that the
pandemic had a very negative impact on
learning.
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Freed said they could not answer any
other questions since the matter is in lit-
igation. Alice Jauregui, city spokeswom-
an, said the city could not comment on the
case for the same reason.
The case was investigated by the
Baytown Police Department Internal
Affairs Division. It is being prosecuted
by Assistant District Attorney Kimber-
ly Clark of the District Attorney’s Office
Civil Rights Division.
The charge carries a penalty of five to
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with a permanent marker,”
Kosteck said. “This was
her suicide note. Accord-
ing to a Washington State
The Baytown Municipal De-
velopment District members vot-
ed to suspend approving a $6.7
million budget for at least 60 days
while considering some items
concerning revitalizing Texas
Avenue, expanding Pirates Bay
parking and improving parks.
The MDD board has chiefly
Baytown council members on it,
but also four Baytown citizens
who are there to provide over-
sight over the sales tax funds
used to promote economic devel-
opment.
Before the budget vote, Direc-
tor of Finance Victor Brownlees
announced some adjustments to
the budget concerning the hiring
of a business retention coordina-
tor and redevelopment work at
the Brunson Theater. Both items
were budgeted for $100,000
each, but Brownlees said those
funds will now go toward the
Bayland Island hotel/convention
center project. This moves the
budget for the hotel/convention
center project from $1.4 million
to $1.6 million.
City Manager Rick Davis said
the city have been making sig-
nificant progress with the hotel’s
services agreement.
“We are targeting the week of
July 12 to have that wrapped up,”
■ DA: ‘Nobody is above the law’ - each officer charged tention officer Shane Dunlap, a civilian
• — public servant, was indicted under the
with felony aggravated assault in 2019 traffic stop arrest same charge.
Eric Freed, interim Assistant Chief of
BIBLE VERSE
Unless the Lord builds the
house, its builders labor
in vain. Unless the Lord
watches over the city, the
watchmen stand guard in
vain. — Psalm 127:1
of bullied kids plead with Healthy Youth Survey,
board members at Goose nearly 25% of 10th graders
Creek C1SD to form an who reported being bullied
anti-bullying committee also reported having made
and address this issue, it a suicide attempt in the past
appears things are coming 12 months and according
together, to a study by the Secret
Kim Kosteck, who has Service’s National Threat
spoken to the board in the Assess-ment Center, which
past about her daughter be- is one of the most compre-
ing bullied to the point of hensive reviews of school
wanting to commit suicide, attacks since the Colum-
addressed them once more, bine shootings in 1999, an
No matter what, you’ll overwhelming majority of
never matter.’ These were school shootings have been
the words my daughter linked to harassment or
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“Nobody is above the law, including Police, issued a statement on behalf of the
those who have a duty to enforce the law,” Baytown police department.
Ogg said. “Prosecutors presented all the On July 2,2021, Chief ofPo-
j , , • 11:1111 lice Mike Holden placed patrol officers
evidence to grand lurors who decided that m0: 10 ic 1 •
, , 1 , Teddy Sims and Samuel Serrett on admin-
these defendants should be charged with istrative leave without pay," Freed said,
a crime. “Chief Holden placed Detention Officer
Baytown officers Teddy Sims and Sam- Shane Dunlap on administrative leave
uel Serrett were indicted for aggravated with pay. An internal investigation is on-
assault, a first-degree felony offense. De- going.”
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and Recreation Department’s 4th of July celebrations. SEE HEADLINER • PAGE 9A Saturday night in Baytown.
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Bloom, David. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 101, No. 79, Ed. 1 Sunday, July 4, 2021, newspaper, July 4, 2021; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1468426/m1/1/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 9, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.