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Vol. 114, No. 14 / 54 pages, 5 sections
Wednesday, August 16, 2017
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Denton, Texas
Schools
pass
state
ratings
City seeks chamber metrics
fore making big changes to it.
The chamber has received city
funds to help Denton recruit new
businesses since 1986. This year, the
chamber requested $238,836 from
the city to fund the contract. For the
first time, however, the city will re-
quire that the chamber meet specific
goals, measure key activities and pro-
vide financial and written reports in
exchange for the money.
“In the past, agreements have been
broad and general,” Caroline Booth,
the city’s economic development di-
rector, told City Council members
during an afternoon work session.
In years past, the chamber raised
private money to help fund the pro-
gram. Under the contract, the cham-
ber would raise $70,000 for the pro-
gram in the coming year, Booth said.
In previous years, the chamber also
prepared an annual marketing plan to
help generate new prospects. This
year, the chamber will again prepare a
plan, but it will include a specific goal
to generate 42 new prospects, with six
of them making site visits to Denton.
In addition, the chamber will be ex-
pected to make monthly reports and
an annual report to city government
about its work toward that goal and
other measurements.
“Not just outputs, but outcomes,”
Booth said.
Booth told council members that
she asked the chamber to set the goal
Council indicates it’ll
renew recruitment
contract with changes
By Peggy Heinkel-Wolfe
Staff Writer
pheinkel-wolfe@dentonrc.com
The Denton City Council tentative-
ly agreed Tuesday to renew a long-
running contract with the Denton
Chamber of Commerce, but not be-
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Denton ISD campuses
meet standards for
second year in a row
Last splash of summer
By Caitlyn Jones
Staff Writer
cjones @dentonrc. com
Every campus in Denton ISD and
other area school districts met state ac-
countability standards this year, ac-
cording to data released Tuesday from
the Texas Education Agency
This is the second year in a row that
all local comprehensive schools passed
all state requirements in four catego-
ries: student achievement, student
progress, closing performance gaps and
postsecondaiy readiness. Many of the
factors are based on standardized test
scores, which took a dip for most school
districts across Texas.
Even with the slump in scores, more
schools passed accountability stan-
dards this year. Statewide results show
44 districts and 371 schools failed the
standards, down from 57 districts and
445 schools in 2016.
Several area schools also received
distinctions for outstanding achieve-
ment across the four categories.
Out of the 34 campuses that earned
distinctions, half were for high science
test scores and 16 performed w7ell in the
student progress category Pilot Point
ISD was the only district in the area to
receive a distinction, which rewarded
its postsecondary readiness.
School ratings will look different
next year as TEA moves from its pass/
fail system to an ‘A-F” grading system.
Districts will see their letter grades
starting next August while individual
schools will wait until 2019 for their
grades.
Legislators came up with the “A-F”
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is the pool’s last full week of the summer — it’ll be open daily through Sunday, then open for weekends on Aug. 26-27 and Sept. 2-4.
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COMING
THURSDAY
Fallon: Bill
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something
it’s not
TODAY
IN DENTON
Workers
begin remov-
ing a Confed-
erate statue
Monday in
Gainesville,
Fla. The stat-
ue is being
returned to
the local
chapter of
the United
Daughters of
the Confeder-
acy, which
erected the
bronze statue
in 1904.
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By Lauren McGaughy
The Dallas Morning News
hncgaughy @dallasnews.com
AUSTIN — The author of a Texas
bill to protect drivers who injure dem-
onstrators
himself the t arget of
outrage on social me-
dia over the weekend
after the hit-and-run
death of a young
protesting
white supremacists in
Charlottesville, Va.
Last month, Rep.
Pat Fallon, R-Frisco, filed legislation to
protect motorists who hit demonstra-
tors “blocking traffic in a public right-
of-way” if the driver exercises “due care.”
House Bill 250 would protect drivers
against civil liability only but would not
lessen criminal penalties for deadly
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A Texas version of a
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on monuments
found
NATIONAL
Combative and insistent,
President Donald Trump
declared anew7 Tuesday
“there is blame on both
sides” for the deadly vio-
lence last weekend in
Charlottesville, Virginia.
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FIND IT INSIDE
By Jesse J. Holland
Associated Press
Cities and states accelerated
their plans to remove Confeder-
ate monuments from public
property Tuesday as the violence
over a Robert E. Lee statue in
Charlottesville, Virginia, moved
leaders across the country to
plan to wipe away much of the
remaining Old South imagery
Only tw7o statues wrere taken
down immediately, in Gaines-
ville, Florida, where the Daugh-
ters of the Confederacy removed
a statue of a Confederate soldier
Violence boosts pressure on plans
to remove symbols of Confederacy
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other imagery from public land,
or consider doing so, in the after-
math of Saturday’s white nation-
alist rally that killed one person
and injured dozens more.
The changes were publicized
as President Donald Trump de-
fended Confederate statues in
wide-ranging remarks.
known as “Ole Joe,” and in Dur-
ham, North Carolina, where pro-
testers used a rope to pull down a
Confederate monument dedicat-
ed in 1924.
But the anti-Confederate mo-
mentum seemed to ensure that
other memorials would come
down soon. Many local and state
governments announced that
they would remove statues and
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INTERNATIONAL
Both Koreas and the
United States signaled
their willingness to avert a
5 deepening crisis.
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