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Monday • October 28,
5th Circuit bans cameras
tape recorders in courtroom
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The
5th Circuit Court of Appeals has
become the fifth federal appellate
court to ban all cameras and tape
recorders from its courtrooms.
The New Orleans-based appel
late court, which hears cases
from Texas, Louisiana and Missis
sippi, joined appellate courts in
the 1 st, 7th, 10th and 11 th circuits
in formally banning television
cameras, still photography and
tape recorders.
Cameras currently are not al
lowed in the 5th Circuit’s court
rooms, but earlier this year the
United States Judicial Conference
gave the 12 federal circuit courts
discretion to permit them.
Two federal appeals courts —
the New York-based 2nd Circuit
and the San Francisco-based 9th
Circuit — allow coverage of their
proceedings by still cameras, ra
dio and television.
The 5th Circuit’s decision on
Oct. 18 disappointed news media
representatives, but other lawyers
offered approval.
“I think the court has missed
a wonderful opportunity to edu
cate the citizens of our circuit
on the challenging and impor
tant work that the court does,”
said Jack Weiss, a New Orleans
media attorney.
In appeals courts, lawyers for
each side present timed argu
ments and answer questions
from the judges. There is no testi
mony or evidence presented.
‘‘When you are talking about
cameras in a trial court, you must
consider the effect on witnesses
and jurors," Weiss said. ‘‘In an ap
pellate court, like the 5th Circuit,
the effect on witnesses and jurors
is not even an issue.”
Susan Cowger, a lawyer in the
appellate section of the U.S. At
torney’s office for the Northern
District of Texas, said she believes
the public already has adequate
access to the court’s proceedings.
‘‘It’s very much the kind of
thing that lends itself to a tran
script, which you can buy, and
there’s always enough room to
watch an argument.” Ms. Cowger
said. "Given that there’s plenty of
access for news professionals, it’s
no big deal.”
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in 1994.
Salary gap concerns lawmakei
AUSTIN (AP) — Legislative leaders say they’d like to
see teachers make as much money as coaches, but
that decision ultimately is up to local school districts.
“If the local school district chooses to pay their
high school football coach more than they pay
their teachers, that’s part of local control,” said
House Public Education Committee Chairman
Paul Sadler, D-Henderson.
"If the local community allows that to happen,
then the taxpayers are getting what they want — in
theory at least," he said. “I personally have questioned
the practice for a long time. Not that I think coaches
are overpaid, but rather that teachers are underpaid.”
An Associated Press analysis of 1995-96 records for
4A and 5A schools found a large gap between the
salaries of teachers and coaches. Coaches earn
$54,000 on average; teachers typically make between
$31,000 and $32,000.
Sadler and others noted that the 1995 education
law raised the minimum salary scale for teachers and
tied it to the state expenditure per student. The price
tag for the first two years was about $292 million.
While a good step, Sadler said, ‘‘It will not increase
enough to catch up with the differencebew
coaches’ salaries and teachers’salaries. Altho
wish that would happen, it won’t.”
Gov. George W. Bush said large salary discrtp;
may exist hut "by and large, funding is fair.’’
"lust from a general look, a lot of times the disp
ty in salary had to do with hours worked and
amount of miles logged in travel,” he said.
Bush said he wouldn’t promise an additional]
raise for teachers in the coming legislative session
cause he couldn't guarantee it would pass.
“I think it’s going to be hard to ever
good teacher what he or she is worth, " he said.' 1
can't pay for somebody’s heart, or as much soil
they put into the classroom.”
Richard Kouri, president of the Texas StateTeaclt
Association, said educators were encouragedJf
1995 changes in teacher salary.
But that is likely to be enough to meetteacln
goal of raising the average Texas teachersalan
the national level, Kouri said. In 1995-96,the®
age U.S. teacher salary was $37,846,whilei
Texas average was $32,000.
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