The Sealy News (Sealy, Tex.), Vol. 120, No. 20, Ed. 1 Friday, March 9, 2007 Page: 1 of 16
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Serving Sealy and Austin County since 1887 • Home of Sandy Dornak
Preliminary TAKS scores reflect success
Sealy Independent School District - 1st Administration of TAKS Reading Test
Dare To Be Drug Free
SISD board
Early Days of
be 'acceptable
R4 Group to help Sea
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PREPAY
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Volume 120 Number 20
FRIDAY, MARCH 9. 2007
16 pages, 75C
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ASOBTUARIES
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Grade Level
Overall
Whites
Hispanics
African Americans
Economically Disadvantaged
al Society is sell-
e Early Days of
ir $28. The books
ng sold at Citizens
ank. For more
tion, contact Bill
006@sbcglobal.net
March 9 is Austin
uston Livestock Show
d Rodeo. The rodeo will
k off at 7 p.m., fol
ved by a performance
Pat Green. Tickets are
sale at the Austin
unty Fair office for $60
a ticket includes a shut
bus to Reliant
adium. For more infor
ition, contact the fair
ice at (979) 865-5995.
■ NEWSBITS, page 11
Relay for Life
Relay for Life is April 20
21 at Bellville High School
from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m.
Team packets can be
picked up at the Sealy
Chamber office and First
National bank of Bellville
For more information, con
tact Kathy at (979) 877
KC fried fish
The Sealy Knights of
Columbus is serving fried
fish every Friday of Lent
from Feb. 23 to March
30. Serving time is from
5:30-8 p.m. at the Sealy
KC Hall. Dine-in or drive
thru. Proceeds will benefit
the KC Building Fund.
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SEALY NEWS
P.O. Box 480 • 193 Schmidt Rd.
Sealy, TX 77474
979-885-3562 • Fax 979-885-3564
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Severe Weather
Awareness Week Tips
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The Sealy News/TRACY DANG
Sealy ISD Police Officer Boyd Neagle speaks to Lisa Schroeder’s class about the DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) Program. The
nine-week program teaches Selman Intermediate fifth-grade classes about being drug-tree. For more on the DARE Program, see the edu-
cation page in Tuesday’s edition.
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Growing Questions
Sealy must decide on economic future
surrounding community
Sealy wants to resemble.
“We’re at a crossroads
here and we’re caught in
between these growing
areas,”said board member
and city councilman Joe
Bilski. “The question is what
do we want our community
to look like? If you drive
down Hwy. 36 and look at
■ GROWTH, page 16
worked very hard, and there’s a questions on the test. public against jumping to conclu-
focus that wasn’t there before.” “Our first stepping stone is pretty sions from these “soft numbers.”
The third grade had a 91-percent awesome to ensure the students’ The numbers only include students
passing rate on the first adminis- success,” Selman Elementary who were registered in its Public
tration of the TAKS reading test. Principal Shane Every said. “They Education Information
The passing rate for each subcate- are looking very strong right now. Management System (PEIMS)
gory is 91 percent whites, 92 per- Every area, with the exception of Snapshot in October. They also do
cent Hispanics and 83 percent whites, is higher than last year, and not include students who will be
&1VIG 10
______MARCH______
Creerasennin
Deadline for
candidates to
file is Monday
The deadline last day for
candidates to file applica
tions to run in the Sealy
City Council, San Felipe
City Council and Sealy
Independent School Dis-
trict is Monday at 5 p.m.
• FILING, page 6
The Sealy News • 193 Schmidt Road • P.O. Box 480 • Sealy, Texas 77474 • phone: (979) 885 3562 • fax: (979) 885 3564 • www.sealynews.com
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of the third- and fifth-grade Texas the TAKS reading test. Passing
Assessment of Knowledge and rates for each subcategory were 94
Skills (TAKS) reading test taken in percent whites, 76 percent
February, and the results are good. Hispanics and 79 percent African we’re not too concerned about the
“I’m really proud of our students,” Americans. whites right now because it’s still
SISD Superintendent Dr. Thomas Thirty-three (33) percent were above 90 percent.”
Price said. “All of our teachers have commended, missing two or less However, Every cautioned the
Bv TRACY DANG African Americans. The passing
Managing Editor rate f°r economically disadvan-
------------------------------------taged students is not yet available.
Sealy Independent School The campus’ passing rate is an
District has received preliminary increase from last year’s 85 percent
scores from the first administration during the first administration of
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Bv MIKE EDDLEMAN These days the Sealy Sealy’s growth, not just the to get involved. Everyone
"Publisher & Editor Economic Development nuts and bolts of how to wants to keep the lovely
--------------------------Corporation meetings are manage and promote it small town flavor, you know,
Editor’s note: This is the jam-packed with discussions while maintaining a strong everything that’s good, but
first in a five-part series tak- of Municipal Utility sense of community we do have to deal with
ing a deeper look at the chal- Districts, Public “It is a great little town,” more encroachment from
lenges facing Sealy as the Improvement Districts, tax said board member Lara the east. Just drive down I-
city grows. We will look at abatements and a variety of Compton. “I’ve lived all over 10 and you see them com-
the importance and impact business incentives, the country and there is no ing.”
of education, housing. But what board members question this is one of the The decision facing the
employment and community are often most concerned friendliest places I’ve been, city has been defined by
in Sealy’s growth. with is the philosophy of It is very open and very easy some as a choice of which
Bv TRACY DANG received a $300,000 High stand above the other schools ing vision and related goals “The tests are going to get
Manaqinq Editor School Redesign Grant from was we saw a problem and we that will maximize student harder over the next five to
-----------------------------the state, enabling it to make started addressing it immedi- performance, staff effective- seven years,” Brezina said. “If
Sealy Independent School improvements in staff devel- ately.” ness and the organizational you keep teaching the way
District (SISD) may be con- opment and its program. The R4 Superintendent Emeri- efficiency of the Sealy you’re teaching, you may be
sidered “unacceptable” by the grant will also fund R4‘s ser- tus Bob Brezina and staff Independent School District,” ‘acceptable’ next year, but in
Texas Education Agency vices to help SISD get back on member Sean Cain were at Cain said. “A lot of people three years, you’re going to go
(TEA), but with the help of the right track, the Key Communicators and have a vested interest in how back to being ‘unacceptable’
The R4 Group, a consulting “We’re one of only 20 school board meetings Sealy used to be. You can still again.”
company that aims to acceler- schools in the state to receive Monday to receive input on maintain that good quality of “They say ‘death by a thou-
ate school improvement, it this grant,” SISD Superin- which direction SISD wants life. You just have to adapt to sand cuts,’” Cain said,
may be able to turn that rat- tendent Thomas Price said, to go and explain the steps it the change. Change is going “Because change is so slow,
ing back around. “It was abased on a lot of needs to take to get there. to happen, and we want our we can’t always see it. That’s
In December, the district things, but what made us “We want to create a unify- kids to get better and better.” • GROUP, page 12
3rd Grade Sth Grade
91% 77%
91% 91%
92% 69%
83% 47%
N/A 69%
taking the State-Developed
Alternative Assessment (SDAA).
Students who did not pass the
first administration, students who
were not registered in the PEIMS
and students who are taking the
SDAA will be tested during the sec-
ond administration in April.
“This is a very strong showing for
the first administration, and the
hard work has paid off,” Every said.
■ TAKS, page 16
By MIKE EDDLEMAN
Publisher & Editor
In a unanimous decision the Sealy
ISD Board of Trustees named Peter
Pape, Executive Director, Business
and Administration Services, to serve
as interim superintendent beginning
March 22.
Pape will step in once the board of
trustees votes to accept the resigna-
tion of Thomas Price, who announced
in February he was leaving to accept
the superintendent’s post in
"“there was little discussion of the
appointment, but prior to the vote
trustee Rick Kershner called on sup-
port from the board, administration
and community for whomever was
named.
“I’d like to say this is going to be a
tough situation and whoever it is
going to be is going to be on an
island,” he said. “The administrative
staff must have the utmost level of
support for that individual and must
help out in any way that person may
call you to help out.”
Pape said it would take everyone in
the district and community to keep
the district on the right path during
■ INTERIM, page 2
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Eddleman, Mike & Dang, Tracy. The Sealy News (Sealy, Tex.), Vol. 120, No. 20, Ed. 1 Friday, March 9, 2007, newspaper, March 9, 2007; Sealy, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1616805/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Virgil and Josephine Gordon Memorial Library.