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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
iUSTIN - The Senate Education
mittee this week may take up a pro-
alto continue the “Robin Hood” sys-
ntf redistributing school property tax
ney within county districts, the panel's
pan said Monday.
jn. Bill Ratliff, R-Mount Pleasant, said
•aimed to file the bill by Tuesday, as
suming there were no problems in a draft
copy.
The Education Committee could con
sider the measure Wednesday, he said.
Ratliff said he wouldn't push for an im
mediate vote, but if the committee was
ready to act this week, the full Senate
could take up the proposal early next
week.
The current school funding system re
distributes some local property tax mon
ey among school districts within single or
multi-county education districts, or
CEDs.
It was designed to meet a Texas
Supreme Court order to equalize funding
available to property-rich and poor
school districts, which rely on a combina
tion of state aid and local property taxes.
But the Supreme Court said the system
violates the state constitution by impos
ing a statewide property tax, and by levy
ing a property tax without voter ap
proval. The court has given lawmakers
until June 1 to come up with a constitu
tional plan.
In a pre-Christmas special session, a
proposed constituti onal amendment to
authorize statewide redistribution of local
funds was blocked by House Republi
cans.
An amendment requires two-thirds
support of the Legislature to go on a
statewide ballot for approval.
Ratliff said his plan also includes a
constitutional amendment, but it could
work without one. Bills other than consti
tutional amendments require only a ma
jority legislative vote to pass.
Ratliff's proposed amendment would
keep the current system and set the CED
tax rate at 90 cents per $100 property val
uation.
The current rate is 82 cents.
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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -
Two spacewalking astronauts took
turns dragging one another along
the edge of Endeavour's open car
go bay Sunday in a grueling mass
handling demonstration 188 miles
high.
“If you don't think this is work
you're fooling yourself," Gregory
Harbaugh told his spacewalking
partner, Mario Runco Jr., after car
rying him from one end of the 60-
foot-long bay to the other.
Harbaugh grasped a rail with
one hand and held Runco, hang
ing upside down, with the other
as he slowly made his way along
the sill.
"I can tell you, this is pretty
awesome from here," Runco said,
gawking at Earth as he was being
carried. "People are right about
that feeling you get when you
look below your feet and noth
ing's there."
The spacewalkers then traded
places.
The two had an easier time per
forming other spacewalking
chores: slipping into foot re
straints and balancing themselves
on the sill, and clambering about
the bay loaded down with
wrenches, ratchets and other
tools. They evaluated each task
before moving on to the next.
The spacewalk lasted four
hours, 27 minutes and 50 seconds,
and was the first spacewalk by
Americans in nearly a year.
NASA added the spacewalk to
the mission just two months ago
so astronauts, trainers and flight
controllers can be better prepared
for the start of space station as
sembly in three years.
Officials estimate a spacewalk
will be required about every
month or so to maintain the or
bital outpost.
A more immediate need is the
Hubble Space Telescope repair
mission in December, which will
require several spacewalks, or
EVAs, short for extra-vehicular ac
tivity.
"I didn't see anything, and
talking to the EVA guys, they
didn't see anything that would
cause any kind of concerns” for
the Hubble mission, said NASA
flight director Chuck Shaw.
Shaw said spacewalking offi
cials were "very, very pleased,
pleased in the standpoint that
they got through, virtually all the
tasks and pleased from the stand
point that they didn't get any dra
matic surprises."
Harbaugh and Runco became
the 47th and 48th Americans to
walk in space when they floated
out the hatch as the shuttle soared
over the South Pacific early Sun
day morning.
They were 40 minutes late get
ting started because of the extra
time it took to get into their space-
suits.
Runco was tidy as he went
about his chores.
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AUSTIN — The state's chief pollution regulators
sthey are proud to be tackling the problem of en-
.onmental racism.
Texas Air Control Board Chairman Kirk Watson
i Texas Water Commission Chairman John Hall
ft formed a 17-member task force to study the
iblem and issue a report by June so that recom-
mdations can be reviewed for possible implemen-
ion.
Watson, a 34-year-old attorney, said, “When the
emor asked me to take this job, she told me to do
Ut I thought was right. And that's what I'm do-
all, 38, offered similar rationale: “When folks tell
m not doing things the way they've always
tndone, I take that as a compliment."
both have been chairmen since 1991 and are serv-
iwhile they await confirmation by the Texas Sen-
i
Iney said the task force should focus on why pol-
% risks seem to be concentrated in lower-income
■lminority areas, and how the state can reduce en
vironmental problems in such neighborhoods.
While the Task Force on Environmental Equity
and Justice has yet to meet, it is attracting attention
throughout Texas and the nation, the Austin Ameri-
can-Statesman reported Monday.
“This could be a model," said Robert Bullard, a
California sociologist who has studied environmen
tal racism for years. He said the task force is a signifi
cant step in examining a difficult issue.
"Environmental racism was an issue that was
swept under the rug. No one wanted it mentioned,"
he said.
Hall said, “This is an important issue, and it's im
portant that we receive an accurate and constructive
report. Otherwise, the process will be a failure."
Despite their like-minded stance on many issues,
Watson and Hall have different backgrounds.
Hall grew up on a farm in Washington County.
After graduating from Sam Houston State University
and the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs
at the University of Texas, Hall worked as an aide to
Houston's mayor in 1977, then as a presidential in
tern at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban
Development and in the White House.
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