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Potential jurors hear details of Jasper murder Better pay, better TAAS SCOI
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JASPER, Texas (AP) — A black
man was alive while chained to the
back of a pickup truck and dragged
for several miles, then his shredded
body was left outside a black ceme
tery “as some form of a message,”
a prosecutor told prospective jurors
as the first defendant’s trial began
Monday.
Jasper County District Attorney
Guy James Gray briefly outlined
the details of James Byrd Jr.’s vio
lent death last June to the 122 po
tential panelists in the capital
murder trial of John William
King.
King, 24, sat attentively with a
50,000-volt electric belt tied
around his waist as Gray spoke.
If convicted, he could be sen
tenced to life in prison or lethal in
jection.
King, a onetime member of a
racist prison gang and an avowed
white supremacist, is the first of
three men to be tried in the Byrd
murder. The capital murder trials
of Shawn Allen Berry, 23, and
Lawrence Russell Brewer, 31, have
not been scheduled.
King denies killing Byrd, saying
he stood by innocently as Berry
committed the murder over a
soured drug deal.
The process is expected to take
two to three weeks.
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An increase in teacher salaries
would improve student scores on
the Texas Academic Assessment
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required for students to graduate
from high school, according to a
study done by the Texas Educa
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The study was conducted
from 1991 to 1997 in all Texas
school districts.
Kenneth J. Meier, a political
science professor at Texas A&M
and the director of TEEP, said the
study’s original focus was on the
effects of increased teachers’
salaries on minority and low-in
come student test scores.
“State legislators have been
discussing education policy op
tions and devoting part of the
large budget surplus to educa
tion, so the focus changed to
include both decreasing class
size and increasing teacher
salaries,” Meier said.
According to a press release,
researchers studied a one-time
$1,000 increase in teachers’
salaries and found an increase in
average TAAS scores by 2.12 per
centage points over a five-year
period and an increase in low-in
come students’ scores by 3.7 per
cent.
Bob Wrinkle, professor of po
litical science at the University of
Texas Pan-American, acted as co
director for the study.
“Higher teacher salaries result
in higher TAAS scores, and the
effects of higher salaries are most
pronounced for low-income stu
dents,” he said.
The researchers also found a
decrease in class size by one stu
dent would improve average
TAAS scores by one percent and
would increase low-income stu
dents’ scores by two percent.
“There is a clear relationship
between class size and student
performance on the TAAS. As
classes get smaller, student per
formance improves, especially
when we examine the results for
students in the low-income cate-
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increase in teacher sate
produce a 2.12 percertf
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over a five-year period.
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