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Attorneys for the Texas Justice Foundation, who represent the Hogg Middle School student, sued the Tyler Independent School District Monday in 114th District Court. The lawsuit requests a ruling that the district's dis ciplinary practices violate the safe schools section of the Texas Education Code and constitute "illegal conduct." Allan E. Parker jr., foundation president, illus trated from Hogg records instances in which the district allegedly failed to remove violent students as mandated by law. In one case, a girl's arm was twisted until she cried and doubled up in pain, yet the parents were never notified, Parker said. He contended that the district's zero tolerance pro gram "is a sham and a fraud, as well as a violation of state law." The foundation is a San Antonio-based nonprofit, public interest litigation group that represents clients at no charge in parental rights cases. The assault victim claims to have been beaten five times by other students. The lawsuit also contends the district failed to place the students who assaulted fellow pupils in an alter native education program, as mandated by the Texas Legislature in 1995 and also by the district's own school policies. The suit asks the district to continue the extra safe ty precautions currently in place for the student. The student now has an adult monitor and escort before and after school, to and from the restroom, on the school bus and between classes. Catch me if you can JAKE SCHRICKLING/The Bauauon Bud Brockett, a patrol officer for the University Police Department, checks out drivers on East Main Drive Tuesday afternoon. Brockett said it is hard to catch people who are speeding at this location. The main thing UPD officers are looking for is if people are wearing their seatbelts and if their inspec tion and registration stickers are up to date. Waco district looks to revise promotion policy WACO (AP) — The Waco Inde pendent School District is consid ering a change to a portion of its new promotions requirement to re duce the number of second- graders expected to fail. The district withheld report cards from its second-grade stu dents Tuesday in advance of a spe cial board of trustees meeting to consider changing the policy for second-graders. The problem, according to Su perintendent Rosanne Stripling, is that the new standard sets an unfair requirement for second grade students. Roughly 264 second-graders — about 35 percent — were expect ed to fail under the new policy. The proposed change would reduce that to about 20 percent. "We discovered that we had a faulty standard and the plan is to fix it," Stripling told the Waco Tri bune-Herald for a story Tuesday. WISD's promotion policy, adopted last summer, requires stu dents to pass their core classes, maintain 90 percent attendance and get a minimum average score on the Texas Assessment of Acade mic Skills test. But the TAAS is not given to first and second grade students, so WISD is basing their test require ment on the Iowa Test of Basic Skills. Second-graders also took an other test meant to link the ITBS to the TAAS. But Stripling said that is not what it did. Instead of indicating how sec ond-graders would have done on a second-grade level TAAS, it showed how they would have done on the third-grade level test, she said. "There was just a misunder standing about what that test could be used for," she said. Stripling will ask board mem bers to change the second-grade requirement to eliminate the TAAS link. That will decrease the failure rate by up to 15 percent, MSC TOWN HALL PRESENTS 4r HYPNOTIST 4r RICH AMES Tuesday, June 16 @ 8:30 p.m. in Rudder Thea FREE ADMISSION (Free passes available at the MSC Box Office in Rudder Tow ) f Persons with disabilities please call 845-1515 to inform us of your special needs. We request \ notification three (3) working days prior to the event to enable us to assist you to the best of our abilities. she said. Stripling added that she is not convinced that the district's pro motion criteria for first- and sec ond-graders should include a test. "Staff is continuing to investi gate and pursue options," she said. For third- through eight- graders, the testing portion of the policy requires a combined average score of 70 on the reading and math parts of the TAAS, with nei ther score below 55. Updated results show that about 17 percent of third-, fourth- and fifth-graders and 27 percent of middle school students failed to meet the TAAS or report card requirement. At the first-grade level, students must earn an average score of 35 on the ITBS test on a curved scale. Neither the reading nor math score can be lower than 20. Fifteen per cent of first-grade students have failed based on that standard, the district said. Hate crime dai life of Jasper in JASPER, Texas (AP)-C torney Guy James Cray brutal death of a black' was chained to a pickup dragged appears to be a hate crime. Gray said Monday lames Byrd Jr., 49, was cl pickup and dragged to dear was seen hitchhiking Satu Asked if it was a hate a told the Beaumont Entei a little early to get concreti but it does look that way, Three white men werf tody Monday night on ui charges and the FBI has be in to investigate, Gray said Phil Denney, the county investigator, said prelimi topsy results indicate B; from multiple traumas to and body, injuries which flicted as he was yanked hind the truck. "At this time, we thinp may have possibly been rights violation," said |aspe ty Sheriff Billy Rowles, add' he had been in contacts Beaumont office of the FBI The three men in custo been drinking early Sunda. ing, Rowles said. Their names were not public. They have beenc with unrelated crimes that"- iff did not specify. Assistant District Alton; Hardy, who described thede "brutal," said Byrd proba: countered his killers while catch a ride. "From what I've been did a lot of hitchhiking arc area," Hardy said. "That how this got started. Byrd was last seen hitcb on Martin Luther King Jasper and was not seenac til the battered body was a rural area outside of Jasp; Hardy said Byrd wasapp on his way home fromapa urday night when he was: up. He was last seenrfc/f|| bed of a truck. On Sunday morning,hisboif discovered in the Huff Creeka r J miles away from his apartmr Clara Taylor, the victim's said she last saw her brother day evening when thefaml) ered for a niece's bridal sh "He would have been wall ward his apartment, going hi she said. Gray said investigatorsare to follow the path Byrd at killer or killers took that nigh There is no evidence sofs the man was mutilated befot ing chained to the truck, bes "He was dragged and bis: was torn up a lot, andhewi all in one place," Gray said. Gray said the FBI has been* in because of the nature of tbet "Depending on the evi® that comes out, this maybei that's better suited for if court," Gray said. Family members declined!: cuss the possible racial motis* said they had agreed toinvt! tors' request that theynotl details of the case with report' Jasper is about 60 milesno' Beaumont in East Texas. PAGEH *3.95 « 3 pager airtime Aerial phones soiT System ^ ^ 764-591 In Your Home? Research sites are neededl a 14 Day In-Home flea cort| study. We provide Free flea control in exchange] your cooperation. Please call Granovsky Assi at 822-3069 2080 E. 29th St„ Bryan 775-2- BOX OFFICE OPENS AT 12:3! Now Showing - Todays Times C THE TRUMAN SHOW SB (PG) 1:35 A PERFECT MURDER (R) 1:25 ALMOST HEROES rn (pgi3) GODZILLA m (pgi3) 1:00 4:MiJ QUEST FOR CAMELOT □□ (G)