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DRINK With student ID and this | We also specialize in imported Oriental groceries & condiments, coupon j ALL WITHIN WALKING DISTANCE OF CAMPUS Expires Sept. 15 Labor Day protesters fight education budget cutbacks DALLAS (AP) - Hundreds of people staged Labor Day demon strations to protest budget cuts that could eliminate up to 325 teaching jobs and create what some call chaos in the classroom. As many as 150 teachers and students — many carrying plac ards demanding that administra tors “Bring back our teachers!" — gathered in front of the Dallas In dependent School District offices just east of downtown. Students also gathered at Lakewood Park in east Dallas to discuss the teacher layoffs and plan a walkout from school start ing Tuesday. They urged other students to rally in front of the DISD offices on Tuesday. Hundreds of students walked out of classes at Thomas Jefferson and Booker T. Washington high schools briefly last week. Teachers reportedly are plan ning a sickout to protest the layoff. “We're all concerned about the same thing, and that's restoring our teachers," said Pat Jacobs, a teacher in the district. “That's our main thrust, and this is one time our parents, students, teachers are all coming together to do this. Cuts are being done in this district without any rhyme or reason." The layoffs are in response to budget cuts district administrators say have been prompted by the so- called "Robin Hood" school fi nance plan. That state plan, ap proved in April, shifts hundreds of millions of dollars from wealth ier school districts to poorer ones within new education taxing re gions. Dallas school officials said the district lost $47 million in state aid because of the school finance plan. DISD spokesman Rodney Davis said layoffs are planned for as many as 325 of the district's 8,500 teachers. Notices had been given to 224 through Friday. Maureen Peters, a member of the Alliance Teachers Union, said the lost state aid doesn't justify the layoffs. “We're talking about one per cent of the budget," Ms. Peters said. “Do they realize all the chaos they're creating in the schools? They lost one whole week of edu cation for all the secondary schools. They did that for a lousy one percent of the budget. Where are their priorities?" School board trustee Thomas Jones has suggested that the panel increase taxes in order to rehire the teachers. "It is our responsibility to oversee the school district, and to do that we have to fund the school district by looking at the tax rate," Jones said. "What I'm saying is that if the tax rate needs to be 23 percent, let's fund it at that level." Newspaper reports on Southwest Conference Women athletes receive less funding DALLAS (AP) — In the game of funding college sports, women players are the losers. Despite 1972 anti-sex discrimination legislation, women athletes still have a disproportionately low number of scholarships. The Dallas Morning News reported Monday. The number of scholarships for women does not reflect their numbers in the student body, the news paper reported. The Title IX measure mandates proportionately equal spending on both men's and women's athletic programs. It also calls on institutions to accommodate the in terests and abilities of their student bodies. Some athletic directors blame the economy and a lack of funding for school programs. “When Title IX came in, you just couldn't double the resources," said Donna Lopiano, University of Texas women's athletic director. "The resources weren't there. And they'll probably never be there to create a mirror image." For example, exclusively male football makes it almost impossible to dole out scholarship money eq uitably. 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