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San Antonio ISD adopts uniforms
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Tenth-grader
Nicole Grier likes the idea of waking up
1 each morning and dressing in a simple
school uniform of khaki pants and a
i white blouse.
No worries about what to wear. No ex-
; pensive clothes to buy.
“Just put it on,” Grier, a student at Sam
Houston High School, said.
Monica Estrada, a junior at Fox Tech
High School, disagrees.
“I don’t really like it. I don’t think it ex
presses everybody’s individuality. I think
they should use it for the elementary
school and middle schools, not high
schools,” she said.
Starting next fall, students in the San
Antonio Independent School District —
from kindergarten through high school —
will not be demonstrating their individu
ality with clothing.
School board trustees voted unani
mously Monday to require uniforms for
all pupils in the 60,000-student district,
making it the largest district in Texas with
a uniform policy for all campuses and ap
parently one of the first in the nation.
Noting success with uniforms at a
district middle school, board members
said they want the emphasis at their
schools to be on learning, not children’s
appearances. And, they said, they want
to crack down on gang activity that
sometimes correlates with certain types
and colors of clothing.
“It follows several months of commu
nity meetings among parents, students
and educators,” San Antonio School Dis-
“I don’t really like it [uniforms].
I don’t think it expresses every
body’s individuality.”
MONICA ESTRADA
FOX TECH HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT
trict spokeswoman Rene Lynn said. “The
calls that we’ve gotten here at the school
district so far have been overwhelmingly
in support (of the new policy).”
The decision is in keeping with a nation
al trend toward uniforms in public schools.
The Long Beach Unified School Dis
trict in California started the move
ment in 1994 by requiring its pupils in
kindergarten through eighth grade to
wear uniforms.
Earlier this year it expanded the policy
to cover one grade at one high school, and
is considering making the policy manda
tory for all students in all schools, districts
spokesman Dick Van Der Laan said.
Several other urban districts — in
cluding Chicago, Phoenix and Baltimore
— have individual schools where uni
forms are required.
In Texas, Eagle Pass, with about 10,000
students, became the first Texas district to
require uniforms for all students. The
Houston, Dallas and Fort Worth school
districts have individual campuses that
have opted for uniforms.
Eagle Pass and San Antonio are ahead of
the pack in mandating uniforms for all high
school students, Marjorie Walsleben, a
spokeswoman at the National School Safe
ty Center at Pepperdine University, said.
“I can’t name any others that are do
ing it,” she said, while noting her orga
nization does not keep comprehensive
records of the uniform trend. “A lot of
problems seem to occur at the sec
ondary school level.”
Tech approves admission gor
LUBBOCK (AP) — Texas Tech regents
unanimously approved long-debated ad
missions goals Thursday, though actual
freshmen entrance standards remained un
changed in the ambitious plans.
Attempting to improve the university’s 42-
percent graduation rate by attracting a more
stable student body, regents have set a five-
year goal of an average SAT score of approxi
mately 1,200, a full 120-point improvement.
“There is a misconception that the 1,200
score is a minimum. It’s not.” Tech president
Donald Haragan said. The main goal is a 60-
percent graduation rate.
A 1,200 SAT average would fall between
Texas A&M’s 1,170 and the University of
Texas’ 1,220.
Grade-point and test score standards for
incoming freshmen did not change. Stu
dents who do not meet assured admissions
requirements still may enter by either pass
ing a subjective review process or by ade
quately completing courses in a provisional
admission program at Tech.
Students transferring from other institu
tions, however, must carry a 2.25 grade-
point average over 24 hours of coursework,
a quarter-point increase.
James Brink, interim vice president for
enrollment management, saidiM
are open at Texas Tech,” andtL ;
gents’ actions Thursday did noil
thing to change that.
Among the regents’ otherfive-f
—Students will receive scholars
ey based on their admissions tesu
to $5,000 annually for the cream of
—Tech’s Honors Program wE
off into an 1 Jonors College, comp
its own dean.
—While heavy recruitingeffon
las-Fort Worth and Houston wilt
Tech will refocus resources oniism
Texas “back yard.”
—More emphasis will be
taining existing students, partici
norities who have complained the)
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