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EL PASO — Officials of the
rural school district of Socorro
— confronted with an exploding
population, already high taxes
and a small tax base — are study
ing a plan to switch to a 12-
month school year, officials said
Monday.
Under the plan, students and
teachers would go to school for
the same number of school days
as they do now. But instead of
everyone attending school from
late August to the end of May,
the school year would be divided
into eight six-week units year-
round, and every student and
teacher would attend six of the
units.
School buildings would be
used all year, but no more than
about three-ouarters of the stu
dents would be in the buildings
at the same time, said Bill Sybert,
superintendent of the Socorro
Independent School District,
who added the plan would save
25 percent in construction costs.
Oswald Glaze, president of
the school board in Socorro, a
small community east of El Paso,
said the district could delay
building a new school for four or
five years if the plan is im
plemented.
Both Glaze and Sybert are
anticipating opposition from pa-
rents, administrators and
teachers.
Sybert said the community is
not going to be happy with any
choice made in the future to
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grapple with the district’s popu
lation explosion. The district
now has 6,700 students, and it is
projected to grow to about 9,000
by the 1986-87 school year, he
said.
Two years ago the district’s
tax rate was 64 cents per $100
assessed valuation, Sybert said.
Since then, it has nearly doubled
to $1.14 per $100 assessed
valuation — compared to the
state average of 71 cents — be
cause of new construction, offi
cials said.
Texan, Mexican planners
trying to solve problems
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JUAREZ, Mexico — Cities
along the U.S.-Mexico border
are joined by common growth
but separated by different sys-
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terns of law, an international
planner said Monday at the
opening of a four-day regional
planning conference.
Nestor Valencia of El Paso
opened the border planning
conference on a pessimistic
note, detailing failed attempts at
bi-national planning.
Planners from El Paso, south
western border states and north
ern Mexico are attending the
conference, which is expected to
address border ecological prob
lems.
“There have been numerous
treaties and agreements
signed,” Valencia said. “The im
pacts have been short-lived and
sporadic.”
Valencia said border cities
such as El Paso and Juarez have
achieved best results from infor
mal cooperation in solving
mutual problems. International
law divides the two communi
ties, he said.
The city planner called for
creation of a permanent com
mission similar to the U.S.-
Mexico International Boundary
and Water Commission.
Valencia said the new com
mission would devise public
policies to help both sides of the
(J.S.-Mexico border and work
on common problems suchj
water pollution, water resource
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Supreme Court sidesteps
silent prayer controversy
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The Sup
reme Court, sidestepping the
school prayer issue in a New
Mexico case, refused Monday to
consider whether states violate
religious freedom by requiring a
daily moment of silence in clas
srooms.
The justices, without com
ment, let stand a ruling striking
down New Mexico’s “One Mi
nute of Silence” statute that
allows school prayer. A lower
court has decided that the law
violated the Constitution’s bar
against entangling state and reli
gion.
Other challenges to such laws
are likely to reach the Supreme
Court in the future, however,
and the court may decide to re
view one of them. As many as 20
states, including New York,
Connecticut, Maryland andVi
ginia, have laws allowing a di
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amendment to permit classroom
prayer. President Reagan has
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dible prayer; another versiot
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meditation.
In 1981, New Mexico’s leeisl
ature passed its minute of si
lence statute that allows local
school boards to “authorize a
period of silence not to exceed
one minute at the beginning of
the school day (to) be used foi
contemplation, meditation or
prayer.”
Jerry Duffy, whose son was a
student in the Las Cruces school
district, challenged the practice
and won a ruling by U.S. Distrid
Juan Burciaga, who said: Ttis
clear that the pre-eminent pur
pose was to establish a devotion'
al exercise in the classrooms of
New Mexico public schools.”
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of Appeals refused to review the
ruling. When the school board
voted unanimously not to
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