The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 69, No. 212, Ed. 1 Friday, July 5, 1991 Page: 1 of 16
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Volume 69, No. 212
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Telephone Number: 422-8302
Friday, July 5, 1991
Baytown, Texas 77520
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Aug. 20 first day of school here
Baytown school district students will
begin the 1991-92 school year on Aug.
20 with teachers heading back to class
the day before. The earlier starting date
is in response to the state legislature’s
addition of five instructional days to the
former 175-day school year.
According to the district’s Director
of Elementary Education Dick Hallum,
the state Board of Education is making
a number of changes in the educational
calendar as required by Senate Bill 351
school finance reform legislation and
House Bill 2885.
Together, these bills increase the
number of instructional days to 180 and
reduce the number of teacher prepara-
tion/in-service days from eight to three,
he said.
In addition, the mandates require the
school districts to provide 20 hours of
staff development, including technolo-
gy training, during the regular hours of
teacher service. Hallum said that the
district still reviewing the meaning of
this requirement to the district
Planning team
will be formed
Crosby district looking ahead
By Mark Schlachtenhaufen
of The Baytown Sun
CROSBY — As part of the Crosby school district’s three- to
five-year planning process, a 25-membe? planning team is expected
to be formed in August '
The team will be selected from a cross-section of district trustees,
teachers, staff, parents and other community groups.
A “coach” of the planning team will be Crosby Kindergarten prin-
cipal Susan Moore-Fontenot She adds vision and leadership skills
and will help guide the planning team to its as-of-yet-undetermined
goals, said Don Hendrix, district superintendent.
“You can take the district forward bit by bit without strategic
planning. This is an opportunity to systematically plan goals and
beliefs,” Hendrix said.
Once it is formed, the planning team will draft a mission state-
ment, a written outline of the district’s beliefs and policies, he said.
It will also map out objectives, strategies and action plans.
Other planning team functions will be.intemal and possibly exter-
nal analysis of the district, competition and tackling critical
education-related issues. Hendrix said the district has not decided if
it will bring an out-of-district consultant into the process.
Just as a championship basketball team has a winning game plan
it keeps throughout a season, once a school district commits to its
planning process, little is left to chance. Crosby will select a plan-
ning team it hopes will create a formula for success, Hendrix said.
“Now, strategic planning is tricky,” he said. “Once you decide
■ that something is important and that your going to be directed tow-
ard it, it drives your program. This is serious stuff because it actually
drives your budget. It actually drives the instructional focus of your
Mrs. Moore-Fontenot gained valuable planning experience from a
national expert at an Austin seminar earlier this spring, Hendrix said.
She has been an adviser to the Baytown school district, which also is
using the strategic planning process:
“I have a great deal of confidence in Susan Moore-Fontenot,” he
said. “She has a great deal of leadership.”
She presented a strategic planning program to district trustees in
May and is woricing on other project areas, he said. Trustees have
been supportive of the process thus far and will continue to be up-
dated about the planning progress periodically.
Hendrix said that the school district improved before implemen-
tation of strategic planning, but he added that there is always room
for new ideas and growth.
“Obviously there are some districts that are successful without
strategic planning,” he said.
“I don’t want to create the impression that the world was created
overnight” with strategic planning. “Some people try to make1
strategic planning more than what it is. But, I do think
In past years, the eight days of
teacher preparation and in-service
training were distributed in the dis-
trict’s calendar as follows: two prepa-
ration days and two in-service days the
week before school started, one in-ser-
vice day before the general session
began, teacher work days* at the end of
the first and second semesters and
another in-service day at some time
during the school year.
The new rules provide for only one
preparation day before school starts,
one at the end of the first semester and
one at the end of the school year.
The effect is that the statewide
school calendar still includes a total of
183 days, with the difference being an
increase in instructional days and a
decrease in teacher preparation/in-ser-
vice time.
Students will be dismissed from
classes on Sept 2 for the Labor Day
holiday, on Nov. 15 for an educational
rally in Baytown, and on Nov. 28-29
for Thanksgiving. The last day of
classes before the Christmas holidays
will be Dec. 20, and students will
return to school on Jan. 6. Students will
also have holidays on Jan. 13 for a
teacher preparation day and on Jan. 20
for Martin Luther King Day.
Spring break is planned for March
16-20. Students will also be off oil
April 17 and 20 for Good Friday and
Easter. The last day of classes is May
28 with a teacher work day on May 29.
Early dismissal days are still being
scheduled.
Best float in July 4 parade
do think it will be
wonderful for the school district.”
Good Afternoon.
Pearce Street Journal
AROUND TOWN
How it begins
Bureaucracy is when
the first person who an-
swers the phone can’t
help you.
-WO for FH
Julie Schmidt returns
from Army Reserves
duty in California.
Amanda Brim spices
her basketball talents
at summer training
camp.
SUN DIAL
WEATHER
Classified............ 3-6-B FRIDAY NIGHT: Partly
Comics/Crossword .... 6-A cloudy with a 40 percent
Dimension............7-A
Editorial..............4-A
Markets..............- 2-A
Movies...............7-B
Obituaries............ 3-A
Police beat...........2-A
Sports................ 1-B
Television ............ 2-B
chance of rain, low in the
mid-70s. Saturday: Partly
cloudy with a 40 percent
chance of rain, high in low
90s. From 8 a.m. Thurs-
day to 8 a.m. Friday, high
of 92, low of 75. Rainfall:
1.12 of an inch.
Two sisters, Carol McLatchin and
Renee Odom, finish together to win
women’s race in Baytown Heat Wave
Julio Martinez wins men’s race in
Heat Wave — Stories on Page 1-B
Photo by Tracy Connell
Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 912 and the Ladies Auxiliary win#irst place for best float in the July 4 parade. From left are
Lynn Green, Herb Kinchle, Homer Thomas, Brett Holt, Alex Stacy, LeRoy Breaux and Georgia Ross. The Marine Junior
ROTC Color Guard from Sterling High School won the Bernard Olive Trophy in the parade. See Pages 5-A and 7-B for more
photos-of the July 4 celebration.
250 hired by county
By Katherine F. Miner
of The Baytown Sun r -»
Harris County commissioners have approved the hiring of more
than 250 employees in little more than a month, despite a hiring
freeze they implemented to meet the rising costs of housing state
inmates in local jails.
“We’re making a mockery of our own rules,” Precinct 2 Commis-
sioner Jim Fonteno said Tuesday. “Everybody’s getting hired.”
Commissioners Court ordered the freeze in late May and in-
structed department heads put individual requests for new personnel
on the court’s agenda for approval. However, most requests have
been granted. The positions had been listed in the county’s budget
which was approved in March.
The sheriffs department has been exempt from the freeze since
that is where the additional funds are being channeled.
The freeze is an attempt to avert a tax increase teat would be
needed to cover tee county’s costs for housing state inmates. The
county’s lawsuit against tee state seeking reimbursement for those
costs is ongoing.
Commissioners decided Tuesday to have each department head
seeking to hire new employees come before the court and justify tee
request before the court votes on tee matter.
‘Natural’ fireworks
By Jane Howard
of The Baytown Sun
Mother Nature put on impressive fireworks display of her
own Thursday night, forcing the cancellation of tee city’s July
4 fireworks extravaganza.
The fireworks display will not be rescheduled.
A severe thunderstorm moved through the area shortly after
8 p.m. Thursday.
Parks employees and the contracted fireworks team covered
the explosives with tarps, teen stood by hoping tee rain would
stop, allowing the show to go oa By about 9:30 p.m. after l'A
hours of heavy rains, the decision was made to cancel tee
display.
Though the fireworks were covered, the contractors felt tee
rain may have exposed them to too much dampness, making
any attempt to set teem off at a later date hazardous, according
to the parks and recreation department’s director, David
Ondrias.
Ph«o by Tracy Connell
Little Mr. and Miss July 4
Dexter Gutierrez, son of Jesse and Pansy Gutierrez, wins the
Little Mr. July 4 title while Jeanette Lemelle, daughter of An-
nette and Glenn Lemelle, is named Little Miss July 4 at Bicen-
tennial Park.
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Brown, Leon. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 69, No. 212, Ed. 1 Friday, July 5, 1991, newspaper, July 5, 1991; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1052333/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed June 29, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.