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AUSTIN (AP) — Recommen
dations to fund more school pro
grams, raise teacher salaries and
improve teacher benefits and
training — all at an estimated
two-year cost of $2 billion — have
been endorsed by the State Board
of Education.
“These are of paramount impor
tance,” board Chairman Jack
Christie of Houston said of
Thursday’s preliminary recommen
dations on legislative priorities.
The proposals, which will go to
the Legislature after receiving
final board approval, include state
program funding for:
— Full-day prekindergarten for
students. The state currently
funds half-day prekindergarten
for disadvantaged students.
— Extended-school year pro
grams.
— A reading initiative pushed
by Gov. George W. Bush aimed at
ensuring students can read on
grade level by the end of third
grade.
While acknowledging the pro
posed programs’ worth, Senate
Finance Committee Chairman
Bill Ratliff commented wryly on
the price tag.
"They didn’t pass a resolution
on where it (the funding) should
come from?” he asked.
Ratliff, R-Mount Pleasant, said
officials still are putting together
estimates on how much the state
will need in the next two-year
budget period to fund the basic
education program and account
for enrollment growth.
During the last school year, the
state share of school funding
reached $8.1 billion, while local
property taxes kicked in $9.1 billion.
Board member Carolyn
Crawford of Beaumont empha
sized the importance of pro
grams that extend beyond the
regular school year and of
teacher training, particularly in
teaching reading.
“The kids have to have the
time, and the teachers need to
have the skills,” she said.
The board also reviewed, but
didn’t vote on, other proposals.
One, by board member lose Garcia
De Lara of San Antonio, would use
lottery proceeds to fund a free col
lege education for all students who
maintain a “B” average in core aca
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aggression against the people of Iraq and an
act of war against the Iraqi state.”
U.S. Defense Secretary William Perry, in
Washington, called Aziz’s comments “rash”
and “totally unacceptable.”
“U.S. military forces do not pose a threat
to Iraq,” he said.
But, noting that American forces moved
into the area in force only after Iraq invaded
Kuwait in 1990, Perry said: “If there is any
challenge to those forces, we have the
responsibility to protect them. The United
States will take all necessary and appropri
ate actions.”
Aziz, in a rambling commentary run
by the official Iraqi News Agency, likened
the recent turmoil to the period six years
ago just before Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait.
He said Kuwait’s rulers were in “evil col
laboration with America in conspiring
against Iraq’s people.”
He did not say if Iraq would take any mil
itary action to counter the Kuwaiti move.
The past two weeks have seen Saddam
undertake his biggest military venture since
the end of the 1991 Persian Gulf War, send
ing troops Aug. 31 into the north to help
Kurdish allies rout a rival Iranian-backed
Kurdish group.
With that victory, Saddam effectively
wiped out the Kurdish safe haven that
the United States and its allies estab
lished at the end of the war, giving him
control of the north for the first time in
five years.
In response, the Americans showered
cruise missiles on Iraqi air defense sites in
southern Iraq last week and expanded a
southern no-fly zone set up to protect Shiite
Muslims.
The expanded zone makes it even more
difficult for Saddam to move his troops
around the region without attracting notice
from the U.S.-led air forces, which fly scores
of sorties every day.
The U.S. actions against Iraq received a
cool reception in the Arab world, even
among partners from the Gulf War coali
tion. But Kuwait, which still considers Iraq a
serious threat, has been fully supportive.
A spokesman for U.S. Secretary of State
Warren Christopher, who met Thursday
with a delegation of ambassadors from
Persian Gulf countries, said regional sup
port for the U.S. effort remains strong.
“The coalition remains very much in
place and remains very much active and
engaged,” spokesman Glyn Davies.
After the U.S. missile attack, Saddam
immediately vowed to no longer honor the
"damned imaginary” zones in the north
and south and urged his troops to fire on
any U.S. or allied aircraft.
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Thompson also unveiled a new prograraj
System, a collaborative education amoi
System universities.
“Students will now be able to attend Tex
Commerce for three years, then go to
College Station for two years and receivej
degree from both.”
Dr. Jerry Morris, president of Texas A&M-
said the TAMC’s merger with the A&M Systa
new doors for the school.
"We see limitless opportunities from ourp
tive,” he said.
The A&M System, Thompson said, willcoa
provide a high quality of education to students.]
“Our System is very efficient,” Thompsons
have difficulty believing anything’s been waten
Thompson did not foresee any further!
in the future.
The chancellor also discussed the possit
post-tenure review at several System schools.
'Thompson said he supports tenure revi
will do all he can to keep) incompetent profess
of the classroom.
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Thompson said. “The public has the right tobep
ed from any incompetence. And I do haveaf
with professors who feel they are above theoti
This week, the Texas A&M Faculty Senate in
a new proposal for post-tenure review.
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