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Vol. 112, No. 219 /16 pages, 3 sections
Tuesday, March 8, 2016
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Denton, Texas
Abbott targets needs of workforce
as System Board of Regents voted to in-
crease tuition at 13 of its 14 institutions,
including UT-Dallas. Texas Woman’s
University approved two years worth of
increases at its Board of Regents meet-
ing last month, which will both be
about 4 percent. The University of
North Texas has not yet proposed tu-
ition increases to its board for next aca-
demic year.
Specifically, Abbott has asked the
heads of the Texas Education Agency,
Texas Higher Education Coordinating
Board and Texas Workforce Commis-
sion to:
■ Research how to make college
more affordable and help students en-
ter the workforce more quickly with
nesses are met and
each are prepared to
successfully operate in
an ever-changing 21st
century economy.”
The
marketable skills, through targeted and the 60x30 plan, a higher education ini-
collaborative public and higher educa- tiative Abbott announced in November
tion initiatives.
■ Identify local workforce needs,
and develop workforce development and 34 achieve a postsecondary educa-
models that address these needs, with a tion by the year 2030.
After an eight-city listening tour,
during which the three commissioners
will hold meetings with education and
■ Evaluate current Web-based ways business leaders, Abbott will ask them
to connect students and parents with to submit a detailed report on their
information about in-demand jobs and findings.
career paths.
■ Identify gaps in services for veter-
ans, so that they may more seamlessly will be in Midland on Thursday. Com-
missioners will visit Dallas on May 11.
■ Ensure all strategies advance job The tour will culminate in a summit in
creation, workforce development and Austin in September.
By Lauren McGaughy
The Dallas Morning News
Imcgaughy @ dallasnews.com
AUSTIN
jumped into the discussion over college
affordability and job creation Monday
with the announcement of a new tri-
agency task force that will study how to
address Texas’ unique workforce needs.
“Understanding the needs of job cre-
ators is paramount to ensuring that
Texas remains the top state for business
expansion and relocation,” Abbott said
in a statement to The Dallas Morning
News. “By establishing this initiative,
the state of Texas now seeks to ensure
that the needs of both its growing work-
force as well as new and existing busi-
that aims to ensure 60 percent of the
state’s workers between the ages of 25
-
Gov. Greg Abbott
• .
announce-
ment comes as law-
makers and higher
education officials re-
visit the idea of who should regulate tu-
ition in the state. The Legislature ceded
control to boards of regents in 2003,
but some leaders, such as Lt. Gov. Dan
Patrick, are asking lawmakers to take a
hard look at taking back this responsi-
bility after years of tuition and fee in-
creases.
particular eye toward career and tech-
nical education and science, technolo-
gy, engineering and math.
Abbott
The first of the Regional Education
Workforce’s six-month listening tour
re-enter the workforce.
Just last week, the University of Tex-
Bikers,
drivers
work as
team
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INTERNATIONAL
Groups join together to
rescue man from truck
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By Bj Lewis
Staff Writer
blewis @ dentonrc. com
Denton police crash investigators are
still working to figure out the cause of an
18-wheeler crash Sunday.
According to police, it happened on
northbound Interstate 35 at exit 475B in
north Denton.
Witnesses told Denton police the trac-
tor-trailer, which appeared to be swaying,
struck the guardrail at the exit near the
Denton-Sanger border and flipped onto
its side at about noon Sunday.
There was inspiration even in the
midst of the chaos and uncertainty of the
wreck and the 26-year-old driver’s condi-
tion, according to Barrett McClendon, a
witness to the crash and the effort to pull
the driver out of the vehicle.
McClendon said much of the rhetoric
on TV these days is negative when it
comes to race and race relations, but said
none of that was on display Sunday as sev-
eral people of all ages and races worked to
free the Hispanic driver.
“It didn’t matter what color people
were, they were just trying to help people
out,” McClendon said.
He said it was an African-American
Dallas biker club, the DBoy Street Kings,
who did most of the work to get the driver
out, once the glass windshield was broken.
“They took their gloves and started
peeling the window back,” McClendon re-
called. “The driver was unresponsive, he
couldn’t walk or talk. He would have still
been in there [the truck] when the first re-
sponders got there 15 minutes later.”
McClendon said one of the bikers
Cuba’s blooming entre-
preneurial system has
quietly created something
that looks much like a
private education sector,
with thousands of stu-
dents across Cuba en-
rolled in dozens of after-
school and weekend for-
eign language and art
schools.
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Barron Ludlum/For the DRC
The umbrellas came out on the University of North Texas campus on Monday as showers began to roll in ahead of
the heavier thunderstorms that were expected later in the day.
STATE
March off to rainy start
fall and flooding, Stalley said, with areas
of Denton County potentially seeing
about 1 to 3 inches of rain on average —
some areas ending up with a little more
or a little less.
“We have rain chances in the forecast
all the way through Friday,” Stalley said.
“It’s looking like at least the weekend un-
til we are totally dry across the area.”
The month of March usually brings
about 3.5 inches of rain on average, so
rainfall totals could get off to an elevated
start, Stalley said.
Temperatures are generally going to
be in the mid 70s for the next couple of
days for highs and around 60 or so for
lows, he said. Later in the week, North
Texas can expect a cold front and highs
in the 60s and lows in the 50s.
Denton County road crews are ready
for whatever the rainy weather brings,
said Jody Gonzalez, emergency manage-
ment coordinator.
“Our road and bridge east and west
[crews] are all on stand by,” he said.
‘We’re not really looking for anything
major like lake flooding. The lakes are
back down to regular levels, so we
should be able to handle these 2 or 3
inches. [But] we may see some road clo-
sures out in the unincorporated areas.”
BJ LEWIS can he reached at 940-
566-6875 and via Twitter at
@BjLewisDRC.
By Bj Lewis
Staff Writer
blewis @ dentonrc.com
March couldbe offto a fairly substan-
tial start for rainfall, if this week’s fore-
cast is any indication.
Showers that began Monday after-
noon are expected again today and
through the week in Denton. Severe
thunderstorms are a possibility this af-
ternoon and into the evening, according
to Matt Stalley, meteorologist with the
National Weather Service in Fort Worth.
“If storms develop, they will have the
potential to become severe,” he said.
Late today and into Wednesday, the
main concern will switch to heavy rain-
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Hundreds of New York
City police officers lined
Fifth Avenue in Manhat-
tan in a farewell salute
Monday to a former
NYPD colleague who
was gunned down in
Texas. David Hofer, an
officer in the Dallas
suburb of Euless, was
celebrated at a memorial
Mass in St. Patrick’s
Cathedral.
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Nancy Reagan’s legacy on AIDS draws flak
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more than 20,000
Americans had died of
its complications.
Nancy Reagan, who
died on Sunday at the
age of 94, had influence
on her husband in sever-
al areas, and she also had
gay friends.
But she neither spoke out publicly
about AIDS nor left a documented record
of pressing her husband on the issue early
on in the crisis.
“On a personal level, she was someone
who was not against gay people,” said
Richard Socarides, a former Clinton
White House adviser on gay issues. “But
when the country needed leadership, licans — a pro-gay-rights GOP group. He
President Reagan was not there, and his credited Mrs. Reagan for arranging the
wife — who was able to do more — was first overnight stay at the White House by
not willing to step up. It reflects rather an openly gay couple, and for encouraging
her husband to engage in the fight against
AIDS.
By David Crary
AP National Writer
NEW YORK - Gay-rights and HIV/
AIDS activists remain bitter at Ronald
Reagan for a slow response to the AIDS
crisis in the 1980s. Views are more mixed
about his wife, Nancy, but there’s deep re-
gret that she didn’t push more forcefully
for stepped-up government action.
The first news reports about AIDS sur-
faced in 1981 — just months into the Rea-
gan presidency — and within a few years,
thousands had died of the disease.
Yet Reagan didn’t make an early push
to fund expanded medical research and
didn’t make his first public comments
about AIDS until 1987, at which time
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harshly on both of them.”
Peter Staley, a longtime HIV/AIDS ac-
tivist based in New York, said Ronald Rea-
gan virtually ignored the AIDS crisis in an addressed Nancy Reagan’s role in the
era where the federal government had re- AIDS crisis. Among those interviewed
sponded swiftly to less deadly outbreaks of was historian Allida Black, who said Mrs.
Legionnaires’ disease and other ailments. Reagan’s friendship with two AIDS vic-
As for Nancy Reagan, Staley said, “I tims — movie star Rock Hudson and
don’t know her heart” — but he expressed prominent attorney Roy Cohn — prompt-
disdain that she failed to persuade her ed her to encourage her husband to seek
husband to speak out about AIDS sooner, more funding for AIDS research.
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