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Gainesville Independent School District Instructional Technology Coordinator Lindsay Foster trains teachers within the district
on how to teach students virtually inside the library at Gainesville High School on Tuesday afternoon, July 28. The school
district is offering on-campus and at-home learning options for the upcoming school year due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Gainesville ISD spokeswoman Leslie Crutsinger said right now the district is focusing on instruction for all its virtual academy
teachers. She said before school starts Aug. 19, all teachers districtwide will have the training in case the district has to close
ecause of the pandemic like it did in spring 2020.
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a STAAR test late in the school year,
and sometimes again in the summer,
if they did not meet grade level
minimums when taken during the
spring, the release says.
“I think it’s the right thing to do
being that kids have been out of
school for five months already,”
Stewart said of what he calls the
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promotion requirement for some
students taking the State of Texas
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Readiness test this school year will
give teachers a bit of a breather.
Gov. Greg Abbott announced
Monday afternoon, July 27, that
the grade promotion requirement
for fifth and eighth graders
taking the STAAR test has been
waived for the 2020-2021 school year.
Typically, school districts had to take
into account a student’s score on the
STAAR test to determine whether
the student could be promoted to the
next grade level, according to a press
release from Abbott’s office.
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Teachers this year are prepared
to assign remedial work, he said.
Stewart also added that all students
will be taking assessments at the
beginning of the year to determine
their current education levels.
“It [Abbott’s announcement]
definitely will help to relieve the
anxiety levels of the teachers
and really allow them to focus on
helping close those gaps,” he said.
Stewart said there’s an
overwhelming consensus with
superintendents statewide that
STAAR testing should be waived
altogether for the 2020-2021 school
year.
“Our teachers already have a
difficult job as it is, so to charge
these men and women with not only
educating our kids but having to go
back two-and-a-half months, pick up
from then, catch kids up and push
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The 25-year-old man
arrested this past weekend
on an aggravated assault
charge is connected to a
shooting that left one dead,
police say.
Austin Lennon Lumpkin
is the ex-boyfriend who
police say was involved in a
shooting in the 1700 block of
Rice Avenue on Thursday,
July 23, Gainesville Police
Chief Kevin Phillips confirmed late Monday,
July 27.
Based on a preliminary investigation,
officers believe a 31-year-old Gainesville
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Stewart said teachers will not
only have current topics to focus on
when school begins Aug.19, but will
be working on catching students up
on those two-and-a-half months of
normal instruction missed because
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OKLAHOMA CITY — A federal judge
handed Oklahoma’s governor a stinging
defeat
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state’s
compacts with Native
American tribes do
in fact automatically
renew.
Chief U.S. District
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the state’s gaming
compacts automatically renewed for
additional 15-year term starting Jan. 1 by “by
operation of the unambiguous terms” of the
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Einselen, Sarah. Gainesville Daily Register (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 130, No. 235, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 29, 2020, newspaper, July 29, 2020; Gainesville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1324792/m1/1/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Cooke County Library.