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    f jnesday, September 4, 1991
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jibacks force Dallas ISD to fire teachers
Judents rally against layoffs
jjALLAS (AP) — The spirited
gt of teacher layoffs by thou-
|sof Dallas high school stil
ls Tuesday was the largest
onstration of discontent with
school finance reform state
smment enacted last spring,
nder pressure from the Texas
;eme Court and a 23-year-old
suit to equalize school financ-
lawmakers shifted property
iinds from wealthy school dis-
sto poor ones.
Ihe action will take $47 mil-
in state aid away from the
las Independent School Dis-
|this year, forcing the firing of
jafits 8,500 teachers, officials
;It's not DISD. It's the whole
is fault,” Laura Campos, a
lent at Skyline High School,
during the protest at the Dal-
istrict's downtown headquar-
[Jut, while hundreds of other
ids are also coping with
preductions in state aid, Dal-
pears to be the first to lay off
iiers on a wide scale,
uperintendent Marvin Ed-
Issaid the new state law left
district with a choice for its
million budget: layoffs or a
jjump in the property taxes
already planned,
lie protest resulted from
"something that is far more com
plex than the public is willing to
admit,” Edwards said.
State Sen. Eddie Bernice John
son, a Dallas Democrat who is a
member of the Senate Education
Committee, said she is not sur
prised by the problems.
"I foresaw the cuts and talked
about it on the Senate floor,” Ms.
Johnson said. "I said at that time
that while we might think we are
educating certain students, we are
leaving other students without a
roof over their heads.”
School finance reform, which
shifts money through new tax dis
tricts created primarily on county
lines, has helped many districts
though.
Edgewood Independent
School District, the lead plaintiff in
the lawsuit that resulted in the
new law, has seen improvements.
"It's getting money our way,
but it's not getting things up to
par,” said Daniel Casillas,
spokesman for the district in San
Antonio's southwest side. "We've
had renovations in several of our
buildings, like air conditioning in
some or our buildings that didn't
have it.”
Ben Gutierrez, Edgewood's
personnel director, said no addi
tional teachers have been hired.
"We're thinking of running an ad
in Dallas," he said.
The San Elizario Independent
School District, which includes the
"colonias” outside El Paso, is re
ceiving a 10 percent boost to its $6
million annual budget.
"We have not opened any glo
rious new programs or facilities,”
said spokeswoman Fran Hatch.
"We need class space."
But the nearby El Paso Inde
pendent School district trimmed
its approximately $290 million
budget to compensate for about
$5.7 million in lost state aid.
"It was a lot of money to cut,
but we made it in areas where
people can live with it,” said Gene
Burkett, assistant superintendent
for finance. "We pretty much kept
the instructional supply budgets
intact."
Teacher layoffs are a last re
sort, even after a tax increase, Bur
kett said.
The affluent Alamo Heights
School District in San Antonio is
facing a tax increase to make up
for a $1 million gap in its $19 mil
lion budget due to lost state aid.
"I think the state has not put
enough money into education,”
said Superintendent Charles
Slater. "Their solution is an over
reliance on the property tax.
That's what got us into the prob
lem in the first place.”
jchool district permits
tate agency takeover
JUSTIN (AP) - The Texas
ation Agency on Tuesday as-
ed control of Kendleton Inde-
lent School District in Fort
i County, the first time the
icy has used authority granted
wmakers for such a takeover,
iducation Commissioner Li-
t|"Skip” Meno appointed a
agement team to administer
listrict, which has a deficit of
fthan $180,000 from the 1990-
scal year.
Hie group will try to resolve
school district's financial diffi-
:es, and to eventually return
net control to local trustees,
ven^leton trustees asked
io W make their school district
ate-bperated one after they
dnot meet an Aug. If*dead-
to get funds to pay off the
tit, according to the Education
ncy.
Tm confident that this group
idividuals will be able to re-
eKendleton's financial diffi-
ies," Meno said in a statement
ouncing the new management
'T'm also pleased that
dleton trustees themselves re
sted this action by the agency,
look forward to working with
ooard toward a goal of allow-
ihem to resume administration
ledistrict as soon as possible.”
IEA spokesman Joey Lozano
Ithat the school district has
alow property tax collection
and that a lower-than-expect-
student count caused the
Dol district to get less state
’ey than it anticipated.
The school district also histori
cally has had low scores on the
state education skills test, and it
has been overseen by a state-ap
pointed master since 1986, Lozano
said.
The school district has been
rated "academically unaccredit
ed” for a year.
A recent state law' allows the
education commissioner in such
cases to appoint a board of man
agers and superintendent to over
see district operations.
Kendleton's new management
team includes a three-member
board and a new superintendent.
Patsy Menefee, a TEA staff
member, will serve as superinten
dent. She is in a division of TEA
that trains local school administra
tors in the state's school accredita
tion process.
Carroll "Butch” Thomas, su
perintendent of the North Forest
Independent School District in
Houston, heads the management
team as chairman of the board of
managers.
He helped North Forest regain
full accreditation status after that
district encountered problems sev
eral years ago.
Other members of the board of
managers are Dora Olivo, a
lawyer, former early childhood
education teacher and member of
the Fort Bend Family Health Cen
ter; and pharmacist Albert Hop
kins, a member of the Region IV
Education Service Center Adviso
ry Board and a member of the
State Board of Pharmacists.
Magazine
names Rice
nation's best
college buy
NEW YORK (AP) - Rice Uni
versity in Houston, which offers
3,900 students an Ivy League-cal
iber education at half the price,
was named the nation's best col
lege buy Tuesday by Money Mag-
The magazine's second annual
survey, appearing in a $3.95
"Money Guide" that will go on
sale at newsstands on Sept. 9, ana
lyzed 1,011 colleges and universi
ties and identified 100 best values
based on quality of students, facul
ty and facilities and tuition. Also
making the Top 10 was the Uni
versity of Texas at Austin.
The top-100 list contained 56
private schools, including some of
the nation's priciest campuses:
Yale, Stanford and the University
of Chicago, where tuition exceeds
$16,000 but which nonetheless
were judged excellent values.
Others, such as Trenton State
College in Trenton, N.J., and Texas
A&M University in College Sta
tion, were rated bargains with tu
itions of less than $5,000 even for
out-of-state students.
Among Texas schools, the Uni
versity of Texas at Austin ranked
10th, followed by Texas A&M in
14th place and Trinity University
21st. Baylor ranked 37th, Incarnate
Word College 58th, University of
Dallas 90th and Southwestern Uni
versity 91.
Minister admits to sex scandal
1EW ORLEANS (AP) — A former member of
Fin Gorman's church said Tuesday that the fun-
sntalist preacher accused her of being a lesbian,
fher sex with a man would "cure” her and co
il her into sex.
He said part of my problem was the fact that I
ilnot had a man in my life, that I had never had
Jjwith a man, and that if I ever had sex with a man
not want to be a lesbian," Gail McDaniel of
Report testified.
McDaniel testified under threat of contempt in
‘nan's $90 million defamation suit against fellow
jangelist Jimmy Swaggart, another minister ex-
id from the Assemblies of God after a sex scan-
to ruin Marvin Gorman Ministries after running him
out of First Assembly of God in New Orleans with
exaggerated tales of sex.
He testified that he only had incomplete sex with
one woman, Lynda Savage, and a session of heavy
petting with Lynnette Goux, whose youngest sister
McDaniel was accused of seducing.
joorman claims that Swaggart and others set out
However, he also confessed to overly emphatic
embraces with two other women, according to a
statement from a psychologist who counsels preach
ers for the Assemblies of God.
Dr. Richard Dobbins said he confronted Gorman
in 1986 with a list of six women's names, and Gor
man acknowledged unministerial behavior with two
of them, in addition to Savage and Goux.
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