THE BATTALION
FRIDAY, MARCH 6, 1981
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ISD may appeal in minority issue
United Press International
I DALLAS — The Dallas Inde-
Indent School District likely will
Ipeal the findings of a federal in-
Istigation that threatens $2.7
pllion in desegregation funds be-
use the system has a dispropor-
mate amount of minority
^ichers in minority schools.
“We don’t have any choice but
[appeal. Superintendent Linus
right said Wednesday after re
aving a letter from the Depart-
ent of Education. “Compliance
with their (staffing) guidelines
would seriously disrupt the school
system.”
The only way to bring the sys
tem into compliance would be
through massive transfers of white
teachers to minority schools and
minority teachers to predomi
nantly white schools
he said.
The school system was given 14
days to appeal or submit a plan to
correct the inequities.
A 1976 desegregation order by
U.S. District Judge William M.
Taylor Jr. requires DISD to have a
teaching staff at least 31 percent
black and 8 percent Hispanic.
Each school also must be close to
the percentages. The school dis
trict will be in Taylor’s court again
on March 16 in another phase of
the ongoing desegregation story.
“In 42 (95 percent) of 44
elementary schools enrolling a
disproportionate number of black
students, there is a higher percen
tage of black elementary teachers
than in the district average,” said
the letter from Shirley D.
McCune, deputy assistant secret
ary for equal educational opportu
nities.
In 23 of 28 disproportionate
Hispanic elementary schools, the
percentage of Hispanic teachers is
more than double the districtwide
average, McCune reported. The
number of white teachers in 17 of
the 37 disproportionate white
elementary schools also is higher
than the average.
exas House amends job measure
United Press International
AUSTIN — The House gave
1 approval to a bill that would
|vent workers who are fired for
conduct, or leave their jobs
Voluntarily, from receiving unem
ployment compensation benefits
S until they have worked at least six
ireeks in another job.
BThe bill, which passed 101-28,
I. jras amended to exempt military
s y Msonnel who finish out their
i toars of duty and people who
t , move to another city to follow
,i, their spouses.
slid'Ll e bill, sponsored by Rep. Bill
I Jfesser. D-Belton, must be sent
tack to the Senate, where it was
weviously passed, for concurr
ence on the House amendments.
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Messer indicated that the Senate
sponsor. Sen. Roy Blake, D-
Nacogdoches, would agree with
the amendments and a conference
committee will not be needed to
iron out the differences between
the two chambers.
Speaker Bill Clayton, who had
wanted the bill “toned down”
from the Senate version, said he
was satisfied with the House ver
sion. He said a reasonable com
promise had been reached be
tween Messer and opponents of
the bill.
The opponents had argued that
the bill was unfair in requiring the
claimants to secure another job
before they got their unemploy
ment benefits.
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ptuden tlobby says
higher fees a burden
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United Press International
'"^ AUSTIN — The Texas Student Lobby, backed by a handful of
15 “ representatives and senators, said today the Legislature should aban-
a “ don its plans to increase college tuition because of the Reagan adminis
tration’s cuts in student aid and steadily rising fees at the state schools.
dvim are not irresponsible and reactionary students who aren’t
l‘ ; ( willing to hand another penny over to the state. We do believe,
UjjMvcver, that before Texas taxes its students more, it needs to first
1 , prove that money is needed, and it needs to show it has exhausted
other options before coming to the students,” said Amy Johnson of
( Commerce, president of the student lobby group which includes
members from most state college and univesity campuses.
^ Johnson said a Senate study showed higher tuition costs could result
j in a 5 percent decline in college enrollments, and said such a drop
could cause $40 million in economic losses to cities where state colleges
ire located.
|.“Philosophically, we must ask why we would do anything which
Id lead to a decrease in the number of college-educated Texans,”
said. “We believe that Texas should be proud to offer affordable
cation to its citizens. With increasing fees, housing prices, food
its, and energy prices, an added incentive for Texas students is low
ion.”
Inmates to comment
n prison reforms
United Press International
lOUSTON — The judge hand-
; a lawsuit for major reforms in
Texas prison system Thursday
1 an order inviting inmates to
iment on a proposed consent
ree settling some issues in the
U.S. District Judge William
yne Justice last December
nd the Texas prison system
lated inmate constitutional
its through overcrowding,
)r health care, inadequate
rity, brutahty and other prob-
le ordered lawyers for plaintiff
ates, the State of Texas and the
ice Department, which inter-
ed on the side of the inmates,
to agree on an order detail-
the remedies required,
e lawyers agreed on an order
ering about one-third of Jus
’s required reforms and, under
s governing class actions, Jus-
moved to notify all members
[he class of plaintiff inmates, ab-
30,000 of them,
e directed prison officials to
lish the proposed partial de-
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“This bill is almost ridiculous,
it’s almost funny,” said Rep. Gon-
zalo Barrientos, D-Austin, one of
the opponents.
The House also passed a bill au
thorizing the state to appropriate
$818,000 to Texas A&M Universi
ty to cover losses from eight cam
pus fires. About $600,00 of the
appropriation will be for the for
mer Board of Regents Building
that burned.
The Senate also approved a bill
that would allow citizens to serve
out fines at a rate of $5 per day
credit.
Senators also approved a bill by
Rep. Carl Parker, D-Port Arthur,
giving state employees time off
from their jobs to attend precinct.
district and state political conven
tions.
The Senate had refused to con
sider the bill Wednesday, but
approved it without opposition
Thursday after Parker amended it
to give the time off only to persons
who are duly elected delegates to
the conventions.
Sen. John Traeger, D-Seguin,
won unanimous Senate approval
for his proposal allowing cities to
keep records on an accrual basis
rather than a cash basis. Traeger
said the requirement for cities to
keep records on a cash basis dam
aged their chances of selling muni
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cree in prison newspapers read by
inmatq^ and also directed them to
post the proposed agreed order in
legal resource rooms — called
“writ rooms” — used by pris
oners.
Justice scheduled a hearing
April 20 in Houston for lawyers to
discuss the proposed partial de
cree before it becomes final.
In the notice to inmates, the
judge cautioned that the proposed
consent decree being publicized
covered only a portion of the
issues in the case and that inmates
should not complain about issues
not covered.
He said inmates should com
ment only on the specific issues
covered in the partial decree
posted.
Justice said the lawyers could
not agree on those other issues —
a lawyer said about two thirds of
the case remained in dispute —
and that he will fashion a final de
cree from opposing proposals sub
mitted by the lawyers.
That decree will be discussed
by the parties later.
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However, DISD spokesman
Rodney Davis said Thursday the
high number of Mexican-
American teachers in predomi
nantly Mexican-American schools
is caused by other federal orders
requiring bilingual education.
Taylor’s order gave DISD the
discretion to assign minority
teachers in disproportionate num
bers if special circumstances exist
at a given school.
“It is up to Judge Taylor and not
the education department to de
cide whether we are in com
pliance with teacher staffing re
quirements,” Wright said.
However, the superintendent
admitted it had been pointed out
before that the system was in
violation.
Wright said he has tried to cor
rect the problem through assign
ments of new teachers rather than
mass transfers of teachers already
employed.
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