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Craig Potts, assistant athletic field manager, paints lines on the new grass at the football
practice field in preparation for “Two-a-days” which start up for freshmen on Wednesday.
Heat claims four additional
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brings death toll count to 1
DALLAS (AP) — Four more people
were added to the statewide heat-related
death toll Monday, pushing the total to
103 deaths.
North Texas sweltered through a 29th
consecutive day of triple-digit heat, al
though some areas got a measure of re
lief from widely scattered showers.
"Oh, Lord, 1 don't know how long
it's been since it rained last," Deidre
Roberson, a motel clerk in Tyler, about
100 miles east of Dallas, said. "It's
been so long."
Tyler got about 10 minutes worth of
rain. Portions of Fort Worth got heavy
downpours, the first measurable rain in
the area since July 5.
"The rain, it came," Tony Panibiknci,
interviewed by a TV crew while parked
under a highway overpass to escape the
rain, said.
However welcome, the showers did
n't cool most areas. Record high tem
peratures were reported in Corpus
Christi (99), College Station (106) and
San Antonio (103).
The Dallas County Medical Exam
iner's office on Monday confirmed the
county's 26th heat-related death. Six-
ty-seven-year-old Charity Bailey was
found dead in her Dallas home Sun
day. Bailey also had arterial scloratic
cardiovascular disease.
In El Paso County, the medical exam
iner's office on Monday confirmed the
county's first heat-related death of the
year. Sixty-five-year-old Elvira Anaya
was found dead of heat stroke in her
home on June 25, becoming the first per
son to die a heat-related death in El Paso
in two years.
In Houston, 90-year-old Rosie Ellis
was found dead Sunday of ha
tion, the Harris County medic
er's office said Monday.
John Rouswell, 83, who live,
the small town of Valley Vies,
north of Dallas, died Friday
thermia in his home, whereaj
found him, John Roane,ajiE;]
peace in Cooke County, said
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The heat continued its toll
ways throughout the state.
DPS Division of Emergena
ment reports 7,442 fires nowha\
more than 304,363 acres stateu
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School district, camp
ratings concerning over
performance fluctuate
AUSTIN (AP) — A record
number of public school districts
and campuses are getting top
marks from the state, and Educa-
test subject.
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A total of 120schoold
doing its job.
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districts and 683 cai
focus their attt
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When
the
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t year.
system clearly and precisely pin
points an area of concern, educa
tors move quickly to correct the
problem," Moses, who an
nounced the ratings at a Fort
Worth campus, said.
While the number of school
districts rated academically un
acceptable increased by two from
last year — when it was easier to
be rated acceptable — the num
ber of low-performing campuses
dropped to a record low.
The results prompted con
gratulations to students, teach
ers and parents from Gov.
George W. Bush, who was vaca
tioning in Maine.
"This is proof that Texas is on
the right track when it comes to
setting high academic standards
for every child and holding
schools accountable for results,"
Bush spokesperson Karen
Hughes said.
For the first time, the
statewide report card included
free-standing charter schools,
which are unfettered by many
state regulations and indepen
dent of school districts.
Rankings for 10 of 20 charter
campuses were released Mon
day. One got the second-highest
rating of recognized; seven
were acceptable; and two were
low-performing.
Three charter schools hadn't
been operating long enough to be
rated, ( the Texas Education
Agency said. Seven others will be
rated Sept. 1 under alternative
education procedures.
District and campus rankings
are based on student passing
rates on the Texas Assessment of
Academic Skills' reading, writing
and math tests; dropout rates;
and attendance.
The state looks not only at over-
all student performance but at spe
cific student categories — African
American, white, Fiispanic and
economically disadvantaged.
The state's highest rating, ex
emplary, requires that at least 90
percent of all students and each
student group pass each TAAS
Tfu
next tier, recogmz
quires at least 80 percent
dents and each student
pass the TAAS, up from
cent last year.
The dropout rate must!
percent or less, and alter;
must be at least 94 percent
A total of 328 schooldi
were recognized this year,
pared with 321 last year,
yea r, 1,641 cam puses were
ognized, compared w
year's 1,617.
School districts ratedacat
ically unacceptable rose!*
from four last year.
Another two districtstvei
ed unacceptable due to
circumstances such as
nance, managementandfin
That's down from three las'
Sixty campuses
state's lowest rating, dowaK
67 last year.
"Improvement of this me;
tude doesn't happen easily
is a direct result of studf
teachers and administri
working hard each and e'
school day to improveacad;
performance," Moses said.
He emphasized, hpwf
"This is no time tobecompfc
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about our work."
For a school district or car '
to be rated acceptable, at leas
percent of all students anda
student group must pass
TAAS section. That's up ft®
percent last year.
The dropout rate alsom® 1
6 percent or less, and attend*
must L>e at least 94 percent.
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and 3,310 campuses werer;
acceptable this year. Last)
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had that rating.
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charter schools, the TEA*
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FORT WORTH (AP) — The former Air Force Academy cadet^jp
ed of capital murder last month in the shooting death of a 16-yea™
girl has renewed his claims of innocence in a television interview.
David Graham, 20, told "Dateline NBC" from his Tarrant Cent
jail cell that he had nothing to do with the murder of Adrianne|o f ’ student:
in December 1 995.
"I was not there," he said, adding that his ex-girlfriend, DianeZai
ra, committed the crime alone.
Zamora, once a Naval Academy midshipman, was convicted of
ital murder in February. She also is serving a life sentence whiled
taining her innocence.
Graham reiterated claims made by his attorneys during trial ft 11
he initially confessed to the murder only because he wasui^ Very ini
Zamora's influence.
Both Graham and Zamora plan to appeal their convictions.
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