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Commissioner: Minorities
will be hurt by restructuring
AUSTIN (AP) — Education Com
missioner William Kirby says disad
vantaged students will be hit hard by
a proposal to redistribute state
school aid from property-rich dis
tricts to poor districts.
Kirby repeated his opposition
Wednesday to a plan by property-
poor districts as he completed his
testimony in the complex school fi
nancing trial.
The non-jury trial recessed until
Monday.
Attorneys estimate additional tes
timony and arguments will take
about a week before it goes to State
District Judge Harley Clark.
The trial, which began Jan. 20,
was filed by 67 property-poor school
districts who say division of state
school aid is discriminatory.
The state, joined by 48 other
school districts, claims the distribu
tion is fair and adequate.
The property,-poor districts have
proposed redistributing about $660
million from rich districts to those
more in need.
“There are two pjrohlems with
that plan,” Kirby said. “In these ur
ban districts — including Houston,
Dallas and Fort Worth — there are
large numbers of disadvantaged
particularly minority kids. Dropouts
are a big problem. Taking money
from these districts to give to other
“Taking money from
these districts to give to
other districts would just
hurt these disadvantaged
kids. ”
— William Kirby, Educa
tion Commissioner
districts would just hurt these disad
vantaged kids.”
Kirby said another bad effect of
redistribution would be the removal
of these big city districts from those
lobbying the Legislature for additio
nal help for public schools.
“If they are not getting their
money from the state they are not
going to help us fight for improved
state aid,” he said.
On cross examination, Kirby ad
mitted to Albert Kaufman, attorney
for the Mexican American Legal Ed
ucation Fund, that the 21 poorest
school districts in the state include
150,000 students, of which 95 per
cent are Mexican Americans.
“I would not only agree to that but
I would point out that some of the
wealthiest districts in the state, which
will have a majority of minority stu
dents in a few years, also have a high
concentration of Mexican American
students,” Kirby said.
The state now distributes about $5
billion to support public schools. An
other $5 billion come from local
school taxes.
Kirby said the Texas Education
Agency has asked the Legislature to
increase school funding by $433 mil
lion in 1988-89 just to keep opera
tions at the present level and take
care of growing student publica
tions.
Senate rejects
Clements plan
for budget
AUSTIN (AP) -— Sen. Carl
Parker said Wednesday he and 14
senators signed a letter opposing
any plan to give the governor
power to transfer money among
state agencies in emergencies.
A bill to implement the 1985
so-called budget execution
amendment to the Texas Consti
tution was overwhelmingly re
jected by the Senate in late Feb
ruary.
Tuesday, however, Cov. Bill
Clements threatened lawmakers
with a special session unless they
approved legislation changing
the Texas civil justice system and
broadening the governor’s au
thority over state spending.
The letter says the legislators
will not give up their responsibil
ity to represent their constituents
by approving a “so-called budget
execution or other schemes that
amount to a surrender of legis
lative responsibility.”
Parker said in addition to those
who signed the letter, at least
three others in the 31-member
Senate would vote against “bud
get execution” but didn’t want to
sign the letter right now.
Firemen will rebuild
home ruined by fire
for 78-year-old man
DALLAS (AP) — Firefighters
have offered to build a new home
for a 78-year-old man who has been
sleeping in a car since his house was
gutted by flames.
The Fellowship of Christian Fire
fighters offered Tuesday to rebuild
Louie Watson’s home, which was de
stroyed in a blaze that also killed his
80-year-old brother. City officials
said Watson could not live in the
house until extensive repairs were
made.
Firefighter Mike Irvin said he
read an account of the elderly man’s
plight in the Dallas Morning News
Friday.
“When I saw somebody in need, it
just hit me that I wasn’t doing any
thing when I was off-duty and I
knew I could help,” Irvin said. “If it
wasn’t done this way, it wouldn’t
have gotten done.”
Watson let the insurance lapse on
the house, which he bought in 1962
and paid off in 1975.
“If everything goes right, and I’m
sure it will, we’re going to completely
restore his house,” Irvin said. “The
manpower is taken care of.”
Several dozen of the 300
fellowship members will probably
work on restoring the house, said
Ray Seymore, president of the
group.
Seymore said firefighters hope to
replace the wiring, cabinets and ap
pliances with donations from mer
chants once the outer structure is re
paired.
Irvin said, “What we are basically
trying to do is set it up so he can
move back and get on with his life.”
Both firefighters said meeting
Watson increased their desire to
help.
“Lie’s done a little of everything in
his life,” Irvin said. “He’s pretty well-
rounded.”
He said Watson has been a me
chanic, a carpenter and a practical
nurse.
“He’s very bright,” Irvin said.
“He’s got all his wits about him.”
Seymore said, “He had tears in his
eyes as he was thanking me for reno
vating the house.”
Watson said he had been sleeping
in his car because he did not want to
go to a home for the elderly.
Commission starts federal probe
of former InterFirst Bank director
DALLAS (AP) — A federal grand jury and the Secu-
j rities and Exchange Commission are looking into re
ports of insider loans to former InterFirst Bank Dallas
director Edwin L. Cox Jr., officials of InterFirst Corp.
I said.
The reported loans to Cox, along with those to other
I former directors including his father, former InterFirst
Corp. director Edwin L. Cox Sr., caused $56 million of
, InterFirst’s total 1986 losses of $326.5 million, the bank
I holding company said Tuesday.
InterFirst, in a filing with the SEC, said the federal
[agency is making an informal inquiry into “matters . . .
relating to certain credit facilities at InterFirst Dallas
which were extended to, or guaranteed by, Mr. Edwin
L. Cox Jr., including InterFirst’s policies and proce
dures concerning certification and valuation of collat-
|eral associated with such credit facilities.”
InterFirst officials said SEC personnel declared their
intention “to obtain a formal order of private investiga-
[tion in this matter.”
The holding company said “various documents relat-
[ ing to these credit facilities have been subpoenaed from
InterFirst Dallas by a grand jury,” and added that the
grand jury investigation is continuing.
But InterFirst said “InterFirst Dallas has been ad
vised that it is not a target of the grand jury investiga
tion.”
In October the Dallas Times Herald reported Inter
First had turned over certain materials pertaining to
Cox Jr.’s troubled loans to the U.S. Attorney’s office in
Dallas and to the Dallas FBI office.
InterFirst, at that time, said it “recently has learned
that. . . financial statements and the existence of. . . col
lateral may not be accurate” as required by law.
A spokesman for Cox Jr. characterized InterFirst’s
disclosures Tuesday regarding the SEC and federal
grand jury investigations as “old news” and said neither
he nor Cox Jr. would have a comment.
RepublicBank Corp. spokesman Edward McClelland
said the company was “comfortable” that it had been
properly informed about the SEC and grand jury inves
tigations.
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