Tuesday, March 4, 1986/The Battalion Page 3
State and Local
late to begin
repair of Jersey
treet nearA&M
|The Texas Highway Depart-
Lent will be. working on the
Irth side of Jersey Street be-
leen Texas Avenue and Well-
Irn Road starting Wednesday.
Bob Wiatt, director of security
id traffic at Texas A&M, said
|hicles should not be parked on
street from Wednesday to
Hit Friday.
IVehicles in the workers’ way
be relocated to another part
Jersey Street, Wiatt said. Ow-n-
s of the vehicles, he said, will
bt be ticketed or charged for
wing fees if their vehicles must
[relocated.
■ No traffic lanes on Jersey
Street will be closed and the road
rk should not interfere with
[affic, Wiatt said.
He said the work needed to be
me because cracks have begun
pearing on the street.
Workers will be placing a seal
at, a topping applied to keep a
eet from cracking, from the
rth curb to about eight feet
to the street, Wiatt said.
J Wiatt said the street probably
Sill be resurfaced in June.
Filing to begin Wednesday
for upcoming SG elections
By FRANK SMITH
Stuff Writer
Those wishing to file for the
April 2 student elections can do so
this week at the Student Govern
ment office on the second floor of
the Pavilion between 9 a.m. and 5
p.m. Wednesday, Thursday or Fri
day.
On election day students will se
lect:
• The 1986-87 student body
president.
• Four of five Student Senate
chairmen.
• Student Senate representa
tives.
• Yell leaders.
• Residence Hall Association of
ficers.
• Off-Campus Aggie officers.
• Class councils.
• Graduate Student Council
members.
One senate chairman — the rules
and regulations chairman — will be
appointed later by the senate.
Election co-commissioner Alan
Moore said he encourages all stu
dents interested in filing to come by
Wednesday, so they can pick up an
application and be briefed on filing
and election regulations.
To file, each candidate
must submit a completed
application along with a
$5 filing fee and meet any
other requirements out
lined for that office in the
Student Government con
stitution and in the elec
tion regulations.
To file, each candidate must sub
mit a completed application along
with a $5 filing fee and meet any
other requirements outlined for
that office in the Student Govern
ment constitution and in the elec
tion regulations.
For instance, those interested in
filing either for student body presi
dent or for one of the senate chair
man positions must submit an elec
tion petition containing signatures
of 100 currently enrolled students.
In addition, presidential candi
dates must have a minimum overall
grade-point ratio of 2.5 at the time
of the election.
Candidates for any of the senate
chairman positions must have an
overall 2.25 GPR.
A candidate for the Student Sen
ate must have an overall 2.25 GPR
and must turn in an election peti
tion, containing 25 signatures of
students enrolled within the candi
date’s constituency when filing.
Yell leader candidates also must
have a 2.25 GPR overall and OCA
candidates must have an overall
2.0.
Election co-commissioner Chris
Gavras said information about
grade requirements for those run
ning for RHA, class councils or the
Graduate Student Council will be
available for prospective candidates
when they come by the Pavilion.
The election commission decided
this year to have an open filing sys
tem. As a result, Moore said that
sometime Thursday afternoon or
evening a list will be posted in the
second floor in the Pavilion with the
names of all the candidates who
have filed for each office at that
point.
All candidates who file for office
will be expected to attend the candi
dates’ meeting with the election
commissioners March 11.
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Judge rules teacher competency test legal
rvesthc
s intent
iter.
Associated Press
AUSTIN — Requiring Texas teachers to take
eading and writing test in order to hold their
«is legal and in line with major public school
brms, ajudge ruled Monday.
[The decision by State District Judge Harley
rk gave the Texas Education Agency the go-
Jead for competency testing of 210,000 public
|)iool administrators and teachers March 10.
Those who fail, and do not pass a make-up
exam in june, will lose their teaching certificates.
"The Texas State Teachers Association had
lallenged the TEA plans, saying school boards
iould decide whether a teacher is competent.
AtopTSTA official said Monday that the de
cision “will allow the state to make or break the
jareers of professional Texas educators on the
[asis of whether or not they pass a single test.”
TSTA president Charles Beard said the orga
nization is still convinced that the test and its im
plementation are unconstitutional.
Beard said the TSTA believed the testing
would be discriminatory against minorities,
handicapped, some bilingual teachers and “those
whose area of specialty is outside language arts.”
Gov. Mark White said he had “every confi
dence that Texas teachers will meet the challenge
of this test.”
The Texas Classroom Teachers Association,
which was not part of the suit, said it was not sur
prised at Clark’s decision.
TCTA president Thomasine Sparks of Kings
ville said, “Although we were opposed in prin
ciple to the so-called ‘competency test,’ we felt
from the beginning that an effort to fight it
would be ill-fated and would falsely raise the
hopes of teachers.”
Clark made a three-part ruling on the TSTA
challenge to the teacher testing. He ruled the law
mandating the test is constitutional and said the
State Board of Education had acted properly in
implementing the test. Clark also said the testing
should proceed without delay.
The Teachers Examination of Current Ad
ministrators and Teachers (TECAT) was part of
the school reforms mandated by the 1984 special
session of the Legislature in order to upgrade
Texas schools.
“If a teacher cannot read or write, there is a re--
course,” Robert Chanin, attorney for the Na
tional Education Association, argued for the
TSTA in a Feb. 21 hearing. “It is the responsibil
ity of the employing school board to determine
whether their teachers can read and write.”
Chanin said the teaching certificate was a “life
time license,” and it was unfair for the state to
change the rules.
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