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Trial to examine fairness of TAAS
Advocates claim state-required exit exam discriminates against minori-
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Minority-rights
advocates went to federal court yesterday
asking the state be banned from requiring
students to pass a standardized test before re
ceiving a high-school diploma.
Telling the judge the lawsuit is for “the dis
appeared and the forgotten,” plaintiffs’ attorney
Al Kauffman said the exit-level Texas Assess
ment of Academic Skills discriminates against
black and Hispanic students.
The negative impact of the lOth-grade test
on those ethnic groups contributes to higher
dropout rates and an increased retention of
Hispanics and blacks in ninth grade, Kauff
man said.
“This is, indeed, the ultimate high-stakes
test,” Kauffman, regional counsel for the Mexi
can American Legal Defense and Educational
Fund (MALDEF), said.
MALDEF represents the plaintiffs group,
which includes the Hispanic education organi
zations GI Forum and Image de Tejas and seven
Hispanic and black students who completed
their school work but failed the TAAS exit test
and were denied diplomas.
The Texas Education Agency and high-level
state education officials are the defendants.
'There is ho other way ...
to ensure that students
learn the material that
the state of Texas considers
important..."
— Deborah Verbil
Texas assistant attorney general
U.S. District Judge Ed Prado will decide the
case. The trial is expected to last about a month.
MALDEF is bringing the lawsuit to trial
under federal regulations barring discrimi
nation by states receiving federal education
money. The plaintiffs also cite their right to
due process.
In opening statements, attorneys for the state
disputed the discrimination claims and defend
ed the exit-level TAAS as a valid exam that is
screened carefully for any bias.
“There is no other way for the state of Texas
to ensure that students learn the material that
the state of Texas considers important than by
an objective test,” assistant attorney general
Deborah Verbil said.
While there has been a gap between minori
ties and whites in passing rates on the exit test,
that gap is narrowing, Verbil said.
She also argued there is no evidence to prove
the TAAS test led to an increase in minority
dropouts or in more minorities being held back
in ninth grade.
Although other versions of the TAAS are giv
en to public-school students in lower grades, the
lawsuit targets the test students must pass to re
ceive their diplomas.
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Arthur Andersen
AT&T
Blockbuster Inc.
CarMax
Chase Bank of Texas
CINTAS Corporation
Deloitte Consulting, LLC
Eddie Bauer
El Paso Energy
EnFORM Technology
Enron Corporation
Entercon International, Inc.
Entergy
Ernst and Young
Exxon
Federal Express
Federal Reserve Bank-Houston Branch
Ferguson Enterprises, Inc.
Foley’s
General Electric
Grant Thornton
Guaranty Bank
Haliburton
Hastings
Hewitt Associates
IBM Global Services
Ingram Micro
JD Edwards
KPMG, LLP
Kurt Salmon Associates
Mervyn’s California
National Instruments
Neiman Marcus
Northwestern Mutual Life
Office Depot »
Olde Discount Corporation
Payless ShoeSource
PriceWaterhouseCoopers LLP
Prudential-Individual Financial Services
Randalls/Tom Thumb
Royce Homes, LP
Ryan & Company
Sewell
Shell Oil Company
Southwestern Bell
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Sprint
Standard Register
State Farm Human Resources
Texas A&M Career Center
Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts
TXU (Texas Utilities)
U.S. General Accounting Office
UCS
Walgreen Company
Zale Corporation
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Officers indicted
in 1998 shooting
HOUSTON (AP) — A federal
grand jury yesterday indicted fired
Houston police Sgt. Darrell
Strouse and former patrolman
James Willis on civil rights
charges in a July 1998 fatal shoot
ing during a drug raid.
Strouse led the botched raid by
six Houston Police Department of
ficers on the apartment of Pedro
Oregon Navarro. Willis, who
helped set up the raid, was acquit
ted in March on criminal trespass
ing charges.
Both are charged with conspir
acy to violate Oregon’s civil
rights. No search warrant was ob
tained for the raid, according to
the indictments.
Don C. Clark, special agent in
charge of the Houston FBI office,
said the indictments should not re
flect badly upon the police depart
ment as a whole.
“This is not an indictment
against law enforcement,” Clark
said. “It’s certainly not an indict
ment of the police department, but
we as law enforcement officers, the
people depend upon us, we’re
there to secure rights and to protect
these rights.”
The indictments said the con
spiracy involved finding ways to
circumvent a search warrant for the
raid on July 12, 1998, by police
who entered the apartment of Ore
gon’s brother.
Police shot Oregon, who they
said had a gun and was pointing it
at them. No drugs were found in
the apartment.
The grand jury began hearing
evidence seven months ago.
The Justice Department began a
civil-rights investigation after a
state grand jury cleared five of the
six officers of wrongdoing.
Ad campaign targets Y2K
AUSTIN (AP) — It is not quite
like the song says, “Don’t worry,
be happy.” But when it comes to
Year 2000, state officials are rec
ommending Texas adopt the slo
gan “Y2K: Don’t panic, Be ready.”
“Everybody’s done an outstand
ing job on a really massive (prob
lem),” Shannon Porterfield, the
state government’s official coordi
nator for the Year 2000 computer
problem, said. “But I don’t think
anyone working on this project can
guarantee 100 percent nothing is go
ing to happen.”
Porterfield is not panicking. She
is taking to heart Readiness 2000, a
new state preparedness campaign.
The public education effort, by a
coalition of state agencies, business
es and volunteer groups, begins this
week with print, television and ra
dio ads by sports figures, astronauts
and the cast of “Greater TUna.”
They will be urging Texans to
adopt the “Don’t panic, be ready”
slogan. That is, Texans should be
ready for possible disruptions if
some computers running major
services falter when their internal
calendars, set to recognize only the
last two digits of a year, are unable
to distinguish 2000 from 1900.
Not panicking means ignoring
schemes such as buying large
amounts of gold for a collapse of
the money supply or ones in which
strangers urge people to transfer
bank accounts to them for “safe
keeping” in case banks fail.
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