Thursday, June 9, 1988/The Battalion/Page 7
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Texas lawmaker
fights for funds
to boost program
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IaUSTIN (AP) — The state
should continue extra funding for a
junior high school program that
combines academics with vocational
; classes because it keeps potential
dropouts in school, a state represen
tative told the Legislative Education
Board on Wednesday.
■And if students in the Coordi
nated Vocational Academic Educa
tion program do drop out, they at
least will have marketable skills, Rep.
Bill Carter, R-Fort Worth, told the
S Bitate Education Commissioner
W.N. Kirby said the State Board of
Hucation proposes not providing
extra funds for the programs after
thik year.
)egrees. R" ; /Other funds could continue cur-
■tt programs, Kirby said,
je Regal.R{«B} u t CVAE supporters said such
mlney is committed elsewhere.
ET: jj&arter said potential dropouts
undown, generally are at least a year behind
m school academically; have charac-
Rivers sinj: teristics including low reading abil
ity short attention span and low self-
Starvin 1 image; and need the special incen-
roll. $2covet tive CVAE provides to stay in school.
■‘We are dealing with a special
[A: lortht.IRs of students in this program,”
1 be sho» Carter said.
■ Grove, and! 1‘This is potentially the last chance
that we have to either get them inter-
adventures ested in completing their education,
rapt the very least build their self-es-
Studentsr teem and teach marketable job skills,
thout i d if tliey decide to drop out of the edu-
Bonal system,” he said.
But board member Lt. Gov. Bill
Hobby said it is wrong that students
in the seventh and eighth grade pro
gram can spend two hours a day in
vocational classes.
“I’m simply appalled that almost
half the school day at some schools is
devoted to something other than ba
sic education,” Hobby said after tes
timony from Carter, who was backed
by CVAE teachers in construction
and home economics, as well as oth-
Rep. Bill Haley, who sponsored
the sweeping 1984 education reform
bill, said as a teacher in 1970 he
taught CVAE biology and “any stu
dent who came regularly got a C.”
Just keeping students in school is
“not a good primary purpose of a
program,” Haley, D-Center, said.
Hobby also questioned whether
the program, which some support
ers agreed needs a stronger aca
demic component, circumvents re
form laws’ commitment to providing
a solid basic education.
“Are you not deluding the stu
dents by saying, ‘You don’t have to
really learn the basics. All you have
to learn is CVAE’? ” Hobby asked.
Betty Peace of East Texas State
University said she has taught both
academic and vocational education
in public school, and students “have
to know the basics for vocational ed
ucation ... I taught them how to ap
ply the basics.”
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Drug charge dropped
due to lack of evidence
■HOUSTON (AP) — A drug pos-
session charge filed against a woman
) — Soviet tjaflgj. hgj- \ i -year-old son led police
Knit nuclear*.(o a cac he of marijuana was dis-
ncern, a RuE» sec [ a fter a judge suppressed the
Austin doct evidence.
to convince;»j U( ig e Mark Atkinson of the Har-
ng will worl r j| County Criminal Court at Law
*na Lukyans said j ames Beszborn Jr. lacked his
mother’s permission to enter her
the 21st cent-bedroom April 4 when he found
asychic heal' about half an ounce of marijuana in-
le said. side a box in her bedside table. The
nigh a trails- child reported the find to his father,
dors at the! who has divorced the woman and re-
of Austin 'married.
Rieszborn and his 10-year-old sis-
!l Soviet chfcter, who want to live with their fa-
jhobia abouidher, admitted police into the home
dear war, Lnhof their mother, Diana Maria Daleo,
igh only an after the father told officers of the
rity of the d-discovery.
xtremereacn Ms. Daleo, 38, who was charged
withdrawalfewith possession of marijuana, had
Htructed the children to stay out of
is us,” she sain her bedroom without permission,
ts between Pitand they had no authority to allow
id Soviet Iff the police to enter, said her attorney,
hev have RRichard Bax.
•lief that n fSince the marijuana was sup-
able, Lukyaw pressed we don’t have any evidence
so we have no choice but to dismiss
i believe nudi the case,” prosecutor Denise Palmer
ided, and n said Tuesday. An appeal is not
d by the recdikely, she said,
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Bax said no case in Texas has
given children the right to have po
lice search areas reserved for par
ents.
James Beszborn Sr. said he and
his current wife were not necessarily
looking to put Ms. Daleo in jail, but
wanted only to remove the children
from her custody. Beszborn said the
ruling leaves the custody question in
limbo.
Beszborn and Ms. Daleo have
temporary joint custody of their chil
dren.
Tuesday’s ruling differed from
State District Judge A.D. Azios’ deci
sion in a similar case in which the 12-
year-old son of Netta Dealva Rey
nolds turned her into police after
finding drugs in her bathroom closet
last August.
Ms. Reynolds’ attorneys argued
she had told her children to stay out
of her bedroom and that their lead
ing police to the closet constituted il
legal search and seizure.
Ms. Reynolds pleaded no contest
last March and Azios placed her on
two-year deferred adjudication and
fined her $1,000. If she completes
the probation, she will not have a
criminal record.
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