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LOCAL/STATE
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Denton Record-Chronicle
Friday, June 26, 2015
ISD to offer pre-K to additional school
Denton
gram is successful, and we think
it will be, we’re hoping to offer it
at other campuses throughout
our district with other partners,”
Burns said. “Denton is very for-
tunate to have community part-
ners who work so well with our
district in giving our students
opportunities.”
The Denton City County Day
School approved the memoran-
dum of understanding to enter
the partnership with Denton
ISD on Monday, said Carolyn
Beach, the school’s executive di-
rector. The school looks forward
to partnering with Denton ISD
this fall, she said.
Denton City County Day
School was approached about
partnering with Denton ISD for
pre-kindergarten programming
in spring 2014, said Bettye
do not qualify for free prekinder-
garten have the option to partic-
ipate in Denton ISD’s tuition-
based prekindergarten pro-
prekindergarten at either the
Ann Windle School for Young
Children or Lee Elementary
School.
Eighteen children will attend
a morning prekindergarten
class and 18 others will attend in
the afternoon.
“We’re looking forward to ex-
panding our opportunities for
early childhood to other entities
within the district,” said Jamie
Wilson, Denton ISD superin-
tendent.
Denton ISD’s partnership
with Denton City County Day
School is similar to an agree-
ment the district entered last
summer with Fred Moore Day
Nursery School, another non-
profit child care facility in Den-
ton.
Nursery School is housed at
Denton ISD’s Gonzalez School
for Young Children. Known as
Fred Moore at Gonzalez, 3- and
4-year-old children receive half-
day prekindergarten program-
ming from Denton ISD and full-
day child care from Fred Moore
Day Nursery School.
Barbara Burns, Denton ISD
board president, said board
members are excited to expand
the partnership and bring Den-
ton City County Day School into
the fold.
The district launched a suc-
cessful endeavor with Fred
Moore Day Nursery School, and
now it’s board members’ goal to
expand and offer preschool to as
many Denton community chil-
dren as possible, she said.
‘We’re hoping that if this pro-
Myers, the school’s board presi-
dent.
By Britney Tabor
Staff Writer
btabor@dentonrc.com
Denton ISD is expanding its
preschool opportunities this fall
to include children from Denton
City County Day School.
Earlier this week, the Denton
school board gave its approval to
a memorandum of understand-
ing in which Denton ISD will of-
fer half-day prekindergarten
classes at its facilities to 36 stu-
dents from Denton City County
Day School.
The students will be picked
up at the nonprofit day care on
Denton school buses, taken to a
Denton ISD facility for prekin-
dergarten class and then re-
turned to the day care.
Depending on space avail-
ability, the children will attend
The idea was that half of the
school’s staff would work half of
the day at the Gonzalez school.
The original plan didn’t come to
fruition, and the district brought
another idea to the school this
spring. Myers said she’s glad the
school got another opportunity
to work with the district.
‘We are grateful that Denton
ISD is going to make it possible
for our staff and school to help
little ones ... get adjusted to go-
ing to school and being in a
learning environment,” Myers
said.
gram.
Denton ISD will be responsi-
ble for transportation expenses.
Denton City County Day School
will assume responsibility for all
nutrition expenses for their stu-
dents and child-restraint devic-
es on school buses, according to
the agreement.
Families at Denton City
County Day School will have op-
portunities to register their chil-
dren for prekindergarten during
Denton ISD’s registration ses-
sions late next month at Denton
High School.
BRITNEY TABOR can be
reached at 940-566-6876 and
via Twitter at @Britney Tabor.
The agreement starts in July
and continues through June. It
is renewable.
Families of children at Den-
ton City County Day School who
A satellite Fred Moore Day
Key tool for fighting
housing bias upheld
Paxton: Counties
should wait if gay
marriage legalized
housing law. They argued that
allowing them would essentially
force them to make race-con-
scious decisions to avoid liability.
Writing for the majority,
Kennedy said language in the
housing law banning discrimi-
nation ‘because of race” allows
for disparate impact cases. He
said such lawsuits “may prevent
segregated housing patterns
that might otherwise result from
covert and illicit stereotyping.”
Kennedy was joined by Jus-
tices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Ste-
phen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor
and Elena Kagan.
In dissent, Justice Samuel
Alito said disparate impact was
not specifically allowed in the
text of the housing law. He
warned that the tactic can result
in perverse outcomes, such as a
recent case where a St. Paul,
Minnesota, landlord claimed ef-
forts to make him combat rat in-
festation and unsanitary condi-
tions in low income housing
would increase rent for racial
minorities.
“Something has gone badly
awry when a city can’t even
make slumlords kill rats without
fear of a lawsuit,” Alito said.
Alito was joined by Chief Jus-
tice John Roberts and Justices
Antonin Scalia and Clarence
Thomas.
Thomas also wrote separate-
ly to question the very founda-
tion of the disparate impact the-
ory, which the Supreme Court
first allowed in employment dis-
crimination cases in 1971.
“Racial imbalances do not al-
ways disfavor minorities,”
Thomas said, noting that more
than 70 percent of National Bas-
ketball Association players are
black. “To presume that these
and all other measurable dispar-
ities are products of racial dis-
crimination is to ignore the
complexities of human exis-
tence.”
By Sam Hananel
Associated Press
WASHINGTON - A sharp-
ly divided Supreme Court on
Thursday preserved a key tool
used for more than four decades
to fight housing discrimination,
handing a surprising victory to
the Obama administration and
civil rights activists.
The justices ruled 5-4 that
federal housing law allows peo-
ple to challenge lending rules,
zoning laws and other housing
practices that have a harmful
impact on minority groups, even
if there is no proof companies or
government agencies intended
to discriminate.
Justice Anthony Kennedy, in
a rare vote on the side of civil
rights groups on matters of race,
joined the court’s four liberal
members in upholding the use
of so-called “disparate impact”
cases.
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sion does not come today, all
eyes shift to Monday for a rul-
By Paul J. Weber
Associated Press
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Attorney
General Ken Paxton urged
county officials Thursday not
to begin immediately issuing
marriage licenses to same-sex
couples if the U.S. Supreme
Court rules that gay marriage
is legal.
mg.
Many Texas counties al-
ready were planning to wait
on state guidance if the court
rules that gay couples have a
right to marry.
That includes Harris
County, which is the excep-
tion to Texas’ biggest counties
that say they’ll take their cues
directly from the nation’s
highest court.
Texas law requires a three-
day waiting period between
the issuing of a marriage li-
cense and a wedding ceremo-
ny, but couples can obtain
waivers through judges.
Texas passed a constitu-
tional ban on same-sex mar-
riage in 2005 but is not part
of the case before the Su-
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Eric Gay/AP
The Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs is
pictured Aug. 30 in Austin. The Supreme Court handed a ma-
jor victory to the Obama administration and civil rights
groups on Thursday when it upheld a key tool used for more
than four decades to fight housing discrimination.
recommendation
came shortly before the court
was expected to hand down
its long-awaited decision.
But county leaders in Aus-
tin, San Antonio and Dallas
have already said that if the
high court allows it, they
won’t wait for state approval
and are prepared to begin is-
suing marriage licenses very
quickly.
Paxton, a Republican who
His
ination often operates not just
out in the open, but in more hid-
den forms.”
And Attorney General Loret-
ta Lynch said the Justice De-
partment would continue to vig-
orously enforce the Fair Hous-
ing Act “with every tool at its dis-
posal
based on unfair and unaccept-
able discriminatory effects.”
In upholding the tactic, the
high court preserved a legal
strategy that has been used for
more than 40 years to attack dis-
crimination in zoning laws, oc-
cupancy rules, mortgage lend-
ing practices and insurance un-
derwriting. Every federal ap-
peals court to consider it has
upheld the practice, though the
Supreme Court had never ruled.
Civil rights groups and the
Obama administration had
tried for years to keep the issue
out of the Supreme Court, fear-
ing that conservatives wanted to
end the strategy. Two previous
cases that reached the court
were settled or strategically
withdrawn just weeks before
oral argument.
The latest case involved an
appeal from Texas officials ac-
cused of violating the Fair Hous-
ing Act by awarding federal tax
credits in away that kept low-in-
come housing out of white
neighborhoods.
A federal appeals court said a
Dallas-based fair housing
group, The Inclusive Communi-
ties Project, Inc., could use sta-
tistics to show the effect of pol-
icies used by the Texas Depart-
ment of Housing and Commu-
nity Affairs had a negative
impact on black residents.
The fair housing group said
even if there were no motive to
discriminate, the government’s
policies still harmed black resi-
dents. The effect, the group
claimed, was perpetuating seg-
regated neighborhoods and de-
nying blacks a chance to move
into areas with better schools
and lower crime.
Texas officials argued that it
was unfair to have to justify or
change policies that don’t facial-
ly discriminate. While disparate
impact has been used routinely
in employment discrimination
cases, they said such claims were
not expressly written into the
The ruling is a victory for
housing advocates who argued
the 1968 Fair Housing Act al-
lows challenges to race-neutral
policies that have negative ef-
fects on minorities. The Justice
Department has used disparate
impact lawsuits to win more
than $500 million in legal set-
tlements from companies ac-
cused of bias against black and
Hispanic customers.
It was a defeat for banks, in-
surance companies and other
business groups that claimed
such lawsuits — often based on
statistics — are not explicitly al-
lowed under the landmark
housing law that sought to elim-
inate segregation that has long
existed in residential housing.
“The court acknowledges the
Fair Housing Act’s continuing
role in moving the nation to-
ward a more integrated society,”
Kennedy said.
The White House issued a
statement saying the decision
“reflects the reality that discrim-
including challenges
opposes gay marriage, sug-
gested they stand pat until
hearing from his office.
“Whatever the ruling, I
would recommend that all
county clerks and justices of
the peace wait for direction
and clarity from this office
about the meaning of the
court’s opinion and the
rights of Texans under the
law,” Paxton said in a state-
ment.
preme Court.
A federal judge ruled in
2013 that the state’s ban on
gay marriage was unconstitu-
tional, but declined to enforce
the ruling while it was on ap-
peal.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott
and other Republican state
leaders want the court to keep
decisions over the definition
of marriage in the hands of
each state.
If the Supreme Court deci-
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ton Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals.
The investigation began
when an emaciated colt recently
died at a veterinary clinic. The
horse was transported by an ani-
mal rescue volunteer.
Ranch owners Herman
Hoffman and Kathleen Hoff-
man were cited Wednesday with
misdemeanor counts of cruelty
to livestock.
Herman Hoffman says he
did everything he could to pro-
vide feed for the animals and
blamed his staff.
The family was out of food and
water by the 18th and resorted to
drinking stream water, The
Montana Standard reported.
The boys and a 41-year-old
man caught frogs, cooked and
ate them on morning of the 19th,
and then headed for help. The
man collapsed along the way.
“Their mission was to try to
find help. It took a lot of forti-
tude for those two teenage boys
to keep going. They were able to
cover quite a lot of ground,”
Kluesner said.
Conroe
Two charged after 200
neglected horses seized
About 200 horses have been
seized from a Houston-area
ranch after authorities deter-
mined the animals appeared to
be starving.
Montgomery County law of-
ficers carried out search war-
rants Wednesday at a ranch near
Conroe. A judge granted custo-
dy of the horses to the county,
with assistance from the Hous-
Butte, Montana
Family rescued after 3
days lost in mountains
Search-and-rescue
rescued a family of 10 from Le-
fors, Texas, after they got lost
during a hike in the mountains
of southwestern Montana.
Beaverhead County Sheriff
Franklin Kluesner said two
boys, ages 13 and 14, hiked sever-
al miles for help June 19, two
days after the family got lost in
the mountains near Wisdom.
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