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Volume 71, No. 149
Baytown, Texas 77520
Thursday, April 22, 1993
Telephone Number: 422-8302
Trustees study
Strategic Plan
Hildebrand Jr., board president. “How do we get
back there? Is it a board policy, or do we need a
vision?”
‘The need for general improvement comes
work session to assess aspects of the district’s from universities and businesses who are tired of
Strategic Plan so they can revise and implement it deficient students,” Griffith explained,
more effectively. “We’re asking colleges and businesses ‘what do
“They’re doing their homework now and will kids need to learn,’ ” said W.C. Smith, director of
come back with instruction and recommenda- instruction support teams. “In 1981 we were
tions,” explained Dr. Harry Griffith, Goose Creek asking teachers what they thought students need to
superintendent. “We’re seeing what we can do to learn.”
take the distractors out of the plan.” “We have a superintendent with vision. This is
Trustees Monday limited their discussion to the where the whole plan comes from,” said Olivia
topics of outcome-based education (OBE) and Messiah, District 1 trustee. “The only problem is
mastery learning. implementation, having the community buy in (to
Trustees, led by William Richard Trout, initial- the plan) and communicating with teachers, but in
ly tried to get some background on OBE. the meantime our kids are suffering.”
“The idea came from a foreign language “If this is so simple, why do we need a book an
educator at Harvard who, in 1972, wrote about inch thick to detail it,” said Dr. Clarence Albus,
children’s aptitude and defined aptitude not as IQ, District 5 trustee.
but as time spent on studying a subject,” Griffith “Because we are trying to align (into the plan)
said. “(The theory is) given enough time, kids will 21 campuses over 13 grades with 1,200 teachers,”
learn what we want them to. That’s the start of Griffith said,
mastery learning and OBE.
By Amit Z. Baruch
of The Baytown Sun
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Photo by Carrla Pryor
Steve Hyde, sponsor for the Christian Student Union at Gentry Junior School, and student
Jason Payne plant flowers outside the school campus as part of an Earth Day project the
students initiated. The flowers have been placed to spell out “GJS.” See related photo in
the special Earth Day *93 section in today’s paper.
Without getting defensive and worrying about
Griffith added that OBE is a way of focusing people’s feelings, we must set our own district
the instruction of students to achieve the standards goals and standards and implement a plan,” said
of performance defined by the community. Weston Couen, District 3 trustee. “Until then,
“Our schools are designed to sort kids into we’ll implement a little at a time and talk about
groups like ‘at-risk’ or ‘gifted and talented.’ OBE it.
targets the old sorting system of education. It will
Students plant 200-plus flowers
We’re still waiting for the community to tell us
take us 5-7 years to get there,” Griffith said, what to do. We’re ready to change the plan and
comparing Goose Creek to the other districts make it more palatable,” Griffith said,
which have successfully implemented OBE. Through the coming weeks, trustees .will con-
“Over the last 20 years, everyone has lowered iinue discussing parts of the plan. A regular board
their standards (in education),” said’Edward L. meeting is scheduled for Monday night.
The money will be used to replace a few dead
trees on the campus and to plant miniature
shrubs to spell “GJS” in front of the school,
Students at Gentry Junior School have said Jon Teater, a science teacher and Earth
completed on6 project and are embarking on Day chairman.
another in celebration of Earth Day. On April 30, the science department will
For their part, Christian Student Union have a dunking booth outside with teachers and
members and their sponsor, Steve Hyde, chose students taking turns to raise money. A conces-
a beautification project as a way to improve the sion stand and other booths will also be
Gentry campus. included.
In die two weeks before Earth Day, students The following week, classes will work
Slanted more than 200 flowers at the school, outside as materials are brought in, Teater said,
lyde said. Marigolds were planted in front of The school is accepting donations. For $25,
the school to form the letters “GJS." In a the contributor’s name will be placed on a
flower garden inside the school, the students Golden Corral Club plaque in the office. For a
planted impatiens. $100 donation, companies or individuals can
“It is great to see kids on the giving side of a sponsor a bench that will have an engraved
project where they can watch their hard work plaque bearing their name,
pay off and make their school a prettier place,” Also, the school will accept donations of
Hyde said. materials, including mulch, orange marigolds,
The kids seemed to learn die value of giving jjve ^ sjash pine or silver maple trees,
back to the environment, Hyde said. “When , „„„„ th/. .
Sl"eh=“d.y°“ “PPrcCil“e b“‘U‘y °f day campaign. The school pLed 25
Also at Gentry, the 1993 Earth Day IV Fund created a flower bed in front of the school and
Drive is under way to finance a campus refurbished other planting areas. Also, benches
beautification project scheduled for April 30. were built for the front of the school and for the
The goal of this year’s fund drive is $2,500. football field.
By Elizabeth Froehlich
of The Baylown Sun
Expo set
Friday
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From 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Fri-
day, the Baytown Chamber of
Commerce will host the 11th an-
nual Baytown Business Expo at
Baytown Community Center,
2407 Market.
The event is open to the
public, who will undoubtedly
want to drop by to see the spe-
cial guest, Miss Texas USA.
Businesses of all kinds will be
involved in this trade show, the
only event of its kind in this
area, where people represent
products and services in such di-
verse fields as contracting, man-
ufacturing, distributing, adver-
tising, health and education.
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“Nobody wanted to be there,
because no one was in agree-
ment about redistributing mo-
ney,” Mayo said. “Most were
givers, not takers, but we de-
cided we had to do it or the state
would do it for us.
“We set up the guidelines and
policies to handle collections,
refunds and delinquent taxes.
The state told us how much mo-
ney we had to collect, and we
set up the tax rate to reach that
amount,” Mayo said. “Once we
did that and hired an administra-
tor, the plcae basically ran
itself.”
As it is currently designed,
each local district within the
CED sets its own local tax rate,
Goose Creek’s being about
$1.51 per $100 valuation. As the
district collects its local taxes, it
sends a portion of those funds to
to the tax
rate, which is currently 91.2
cents per $100 valuation. Goose
Creek retains the remaining
amount of local taxes it collects
on 59.5 cents of tax rate.
Goose Creek school district in
1992-93 sent in about
$42,827,000. However, the dis-
trict received only about
$40,937,000 back, which repre-
sents a loss of about $1,350,000.
Those funds were distributed
to other school districts within
Harris County.
By Amit Z. Baruch
of Hie Baytown Sun
Photo by Carrie Pryor
Girl Scout Leaders Day
Girl Scouts Megan Fitzwater, left, and Christina Fitzwa-
ter, right, proudly show off their pins and give a hug to
their favorite leader, Kathy Fitzwater, in honor of Thurs-
day being Girl Scout Leaders Day. The girls and their
mother are members of Troop 7086.
The Goose Creek school dis-
trict is one of 20 districts which
make up the Harris County Edu-
cation District (HCED).
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For the 1992-93 school year,
the HCED’s tax levy is about
$958,305,530, which represents
about a $140,000,000 increase
from the previous school year.
Of the 20 districts in the HCED,
five will probably lose funds to
redistribution within the HCED
during the current school year,
said Robert Williams, HCED
administrator. Those districts are
Goose Creek, Deer Park, Shel-
don, Channelview and La Porte.
Each school district has one
representative on the CED
board. Dr. Clarence Albus, Dis-
trict 5 trustee, is Goose Creek’s
designated representative, he
meets with the CED board every
two months to set the tax rate
each year, discuss how the CED
is functioning and consider any
other pertinent issues facing the
CED — such as pending litiga-
tion, The first C3E^ „—. „
bus can attend is scheduled' for
April 22. W' *'•
Martha Mayo, former school
board president, was Goose
Creek’s past A CjSiD
representative.
Man killed in
accident on
motorcycle
A 29-year-old Deer Park man
died from injuries sustained in a
one-vehicle accident at about 7
p.m. Wednesday after falling
from his motorcycle in the park-
ing lot of the Houston Lighting
and Power plant parking lot on
West Bay Road.
According to Chambers
County sheriff’s deputies, Todd
Entler was leaving the plant
parking lot when his motorcycle
slid on loose gravel. After fall-
ing, Entler hit the wire guide-
lines steadying tall poles.
Authorities said the man was
wearing his helmet, but had lost
it during the accident. Officials
are investigating what caused
Entler to lose control of the mo-
torcycle. The body was taken to
the Harris County Medical Exa-
miner’s Office to determine the
exact cause of death.
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House fire
Firefighters David Clark and Jerry Wiess direct water on
flames that broke out in a house at 1208 E. Fayle Wed-
nesday afternoon. See related story on Page 2.
Parents expect their
children to be as good
as they meant to be.
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