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Volume 71, No. 5
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By Jane Howard of The Baytown sun
A man searching for crabs Wednesday found the skeletal re-
mains of child partially immersed in a mud bank adjacent to Goose
Creek Stream, Baytown police said.
Winds accompanying the cold front that pushed through Bay-
town earlier this week exposed areas of creeks and bayous nor-
mally covered by water, "Die 36-year-old resident of an apartment
complex at 1200 Missouri was walking the usually inaccessible
shoreline near his home about 4:30 p.m. when he made the grisly
discovery. He spotted the skull first, then noticed more bones scat-
tered in the area. He immediately ran to a phone to contact
authorities.
Baytown police investigators combed the area and turned up
more bones scattered through a 20-yard section of the stream’s
mud banks — enough to determine that the victim was an adoles-
cent or a young teen-ager. Investigators have no idea how long the
body has been there or whether it was placed there or washed up
from some other location.
The pelvic area of the skeleton was clad in white underwear.
Police said they found a pair of boy’s swim tranks nearby.
“Judging from the clothing, it was probably a boy and from what
we could tell, probably of school age,” said Sgt. Gene Parker.
Little else could be determined from the bones and clothing.
An autopsy has been ordered at the Harris County Medical Exa-
miner’s Office.
A jawbone and several teeth were found. Authorities are check-
ing to determine whether they match the dental records of some
missing child. However, no child has been reported missing in
Baytown, matching the estimated age and size of the victim, Parker
said.
Police remained at the scene until about 8 p.m. and returned
Thursday morning, hoping to find more bones and clues to the
identity of the victim.
Parker said the medical examiner’s office was scheduled to exa-
mine the victim Thursday morning.
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A teacher’s evaluation is
based on two administrators’
observing the teacher in front
of a class. The teacher knows
exactly when one class will be
observed, and within a day of
when the other will be
observed.
Teachers are given one of
five ratings. Of the district’s
1,060 teachers, 636 are rated
“clearly outstanding,” the
highest possible rating,
according to the district’s per-
sonnel office. Ninety-seven
percent of Goose Creek teach-
ers receive one of the two
teacher actually earns an experience and education highest ratings, according to
advanced degree, such as a levels follow the same trend Tom Hadnot, chairman of the
master’s or, doctorate. _ Goose Creek above aver- committee that produced the
G9°se Creek is the only age last year, Goose Creek report.
Hams County distnet that also near or below average this “This is a state-mandated
pays teachers if they earn year with added pay for program to distinguish out-
hours toward ( an advanced advanced-degree hours, Goose standing teachers and reward
degree but don t actually earn Creek salaries move closer to them for it,” Hadnot said. “But
the degree _ _ or above this year’s county it’s not doing what it’s sup-
This year. Goose Creek average. posed to do. In effect, every-
teachers with bachelor’s Almost half of Goose Creek body that meets the tenure
degrees and no advanced teachers hold an advanced requirements gets the money,
study earn below the Hams degree, while the average “(The state) needs to estab-
County average at every among Harris County school lish a better system. This one
experience level, while in districts is 34 percent. The doesn’t do it,” he said.
1991-92 they earned above the average Goose Creek teacher Superintendent Harry Grif-
county average through their has 12 years of experience, fith said the evaluations are
11th year teaching, according 0ne year higher than in the effective. “Most of our teach-
to the study. Teachers with rest of Harris County. ers are doing a good job,” he
bachelor’s degrees and some The state requires another, said. “If you had an evaluation
advanced study earn near or three-tier incentive program process for the newspaper
above the county average this called “career ladder.” A business, you’d probably find
teacher at the first level that most reporters are doing a
After the 11th year, Goose receives no bonus; at the sec- pretty good job.
Creek teachers with only ond, $1,500; and at the third, ‘Teachers work much hard-
bachelor’s degrees stay at the $3,000. er than most people realize,”
same salary, unless they go Academic training, Griffith added,
back to school. Some other advanced course work, expert- The state provides some
Harris County districts con- ence teaching and scores on funds for career ladder. Most
tinue the increases past the teaching evaluations influence school districts add some of
llih year. a teacher’s movement up the their own money for the prog-
Teachers with master’s career ladder. ram, the study says. In 1991-
degrees get pay increases for Thirty percent of Goose 92, Goose Creek chipped in
each year’s experience, up to Creek teachers are at the first about $380,000 for career lad-
provided
By Josh Daniel
of The Baytown Sun
As other Harris County
school districts boost their
salary schedules, Goose
Creek’s incentives to get
teachers to go back to school
are becoming the rale rather
than the exception, according
to a report on school finance.
School districts give teach-
ers pay raises if they earn
college credit beyond their
bachelor’s degree. Out of 20
Harris County districts, 19 pay
a teacher more only if that
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Photo by Carrie Pryor
Everybody’s talking about the weather, including these three youngsters who are dressed
for the cool occasion. Three-year-old Sara Herrin, left, daughter of David and Amy Herrin
Jr., chats with Patricia Crain, 6, and Charlie Crain, 3. Patricia and Charlie are the children
of Perry and Deanna Crain. After a low of 37 degrees early Thursday, the temperature is
expected to be “30-something” again early Friday.
30 years. step, 30 percent at the second, der, and the state
The salaries for most other and 40 percent at the third. $1.4 million.
Good
Afternoon
Dennis: Funding options detrimental
By Amit Z. Baruch
of The Baytown Sun
Dec. 3 date
for parade
We’re at a pretty high level of funds
A multitude of plans have been consid- that are recaptured (taken by the state for
ered and proposed, but one plan — the redistribution). We don’t want to ask for a
— seems to have some tax rate increase at the local level,” Dennis
system.
Barbers Hill Superintendent A1 Dennis Parker Plan
has said most of the current options support from the governor, the lieutenant said.
regarding the redistribution of school governor and the speaker of the House. Dennis explained the board of trustees
finances will be detrimental to the Barbers The Parker Plan would provide that funds understands there will be some form of
Hill district. be collected by the state, and then be
Dennis recently traveled to Austin to distributed to the districts, thus eliminating
discuss the school finance issue with the CED. Dennis explained this plan is
government and education officials, as still being proposed, but a possibility
well as a group of other superintendents of exists it will be adopted. budget. At this point, there seems to be no
districts similar in size and wealth to “This plan is no different than the CED end to the amount of funds the state can
Barbers Hill. except that the collection and redistribu- take.”
The County Education District (CED) is tion is done at the state level,” Dennis
the current system the state uses to said. “According to estimates, the new than 60 percent of its tax revenues to the
redistribute funds from wealthy school plan would be at least as detrimental, and CED. The district is seeking alternatives
districts to poorer districts in an attempt to possibly more detrimental than the CED. so that local taxes will not be raised while
create equity in funding among all the But we can’t tell exactly until we get the aiiowing for the same level of funding for
distncts. formulas and put our numbers into them. n* „• . * ...
The Texas Supreme Court has ruled the Dennis explained there was no more . . f A ’ . . . . .
CED unconstitutional, because its board money for education in the budget at the tra^. back to Austin in the coming days
members are given taxing powers state level. Because of that, schools will to discuss the Parker Plan in more detail,
although they are not elected to their be forced to increase funding at the local ™ to try to reduce the amount of funds
positions. The court has set June 1, 1993, level, or cut the funding of some programs Barbers Hill will lose to whatever plan the
as a deadline for the state to create a new just to keep up with growth, Dennis said, state adopts.
Baytown Parks and Re-
creation Department will
sponsor the annual Christ-
mas parade, at 6:30 p.m.
Dec. 3.
Awards will be given for
the best Christmas theme
decorations on public
floats, commercial floats,
cars, pickup trucks and
motorcycles.
The parade will travel
approximately 1.5 miles
east on Market to Texas
Avenue, ending at
Commerce.
Any organization or
business interested in parti-
cipating in the parade
should call 420-6597 by
Nov. 30.
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redistribution, “But we’d like to see a
maximum cap in place so we can build it
(the money taken by the state) into the
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Currently, Barbers Hill is losing more
Teen Times
Television..
Weather....
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Dobbs, Gary. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 71, No. 5, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 5, 1992, newspaper, November 5, 1992; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1153196/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.