The Goldthwaite Eagle (Goldthwaite, Tex.), Vol. 102, No. 48, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 13, 1996 Page: 3 of 14
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GISD Board of Trustees conducts reg.
session; TAAS test results released
June 13,1996
The Goldthwaite Eagle-Mullin Enterprise
Page
The Board of Trustees of the dance at the junior-senior high
% Goldthwaite I.S.D. met for the school.
regular monthly meeting Mon- 4. Jared Gist is participating
day, June 10, 1996 to hear re- in the Baylor University for
ports from the administration Young People program at the
and to transact monthly busi- Baylor Campus. He qualified
‘ ness. for acceptance by meeting high
The Board heard the results academic standards. Jared just
,. from the spring testing on the completed the fourth grade and
TAAS tests. See the results of will be a fifth grade student in
1 the TAAS tests printed else- 1996-97.
where in this week's Eagle. 5. Elementary students read
C. Other reports shared during over 2,000 books and scored over
the meeting included the follow- 4,300 points on the Accelerated
jng: Reader Program in 1995-96, the
1. Enrollment for the close of first year for the program. -
, the 1995-96 school year - K-43, 6. Twelve new members were current bills as listed and pre-
, 1-51,2-50,3-47,4-49,5-33, 6-40, inducted to the National Honor sented. $12,770.72 to be paid
7-43, 8-38, 9-44, 10-41, 11-51, Society on May 16, making a from the Consolidated Applica-
/ , 12-36. total membership for 35 Na- tion Fund and $325,977.02 to be
2. The Appraisal District re- tional Honor Society students. paid from the General Operat-
. - ports 96.696% of current year 7. Shelley Horton, Cathy Byrd, ing Fund.
taxes collected as of May 31. and Amy Kitchens, teachers at 3. Approved the acceptance of
$20,261.24 M&O and $1,115.89 Goldthwaite Elementary, at- the proposal from Gene Auld-
I&S outstanding levy. tended Mustard Seed Training ridge of Auldridge Building Cen-
,3. Summer classes are under- in Clifton the week of June 3-7. ter to donate a new football
Plans are for six other elemen- scoreboard and twenty-five sec-
way with 40 in attendance at tary teachers to attend training ond clocks to the School District
Elementary and four in atten- at Education Service Center 12 with the District to take down
in Waco June 17-21. the old scoreboard and to install
the new scoreboard and the
twenty-five second clocks.
4. Approved the agreement
with KOXE-FM of Brownwood
granting permission to do broad-
casts for the next three years,
1996-97 seasons.
5. Approved the renewal pro-
posal from the Texas Associa-
tion of School Boards on insur-
ance coverage for 1996-97 at a
cost of $22,172.00 for liability,
vehicle, and property coverage.
6. Approved the student acci-
dent insurance coverage which
includes football, U.I.L. activi-
ties, and catastrophic coverage
for athletics and U.I.L. activi-
ties to be provided by Stanley
Walker and Associates of Brown-
wood. Coverage is through the
American Youth Student and
Sports Insurance program and
is underwritten by the Markel
Insurance Company. Prices for
the 24 hour or at school accident
coverage offered to all students
will be the same as last year. All
of the student accident cover-
ages are for secondary insur-
ance coverage.
7. Approved modifications to
the daily schedule for the sec-
ondary campus for 1996-97 as
presented by Principal Ron
Walker. The High School stu-
dents will continue in 1996-97
with a modified block schedule
as they had during 1995-96.
However, the junior high stu-
dents will have a traditional
schedule of seven 50 minute
class periods, plus lunch and
tutorials. Classes for junior high
and high school students will
begin and end at the same time
on the daily schedule, but they
will have different time sched-
ules during the morning and
different lunch periods. Begin-
ning at 12:50 each day, the time
schedules for the junior high and
high school students will match
for the rest of the day. This sched-
uling will better save the needs
of junior high students and will
TAAS test results listed
for Goldthwaite schools
Results from spring testing on the TAAS tests
were reported using the % of students mastering
the objectives.
Grade
Reading
5
7
8
10 Exit Level
92
93
100
97
88
88
91
Math
82
97
81
93
85
76
84
Writing
Not tested
97
Not tested
Not tested
Not tested
96
94
The board and administration were quick to
point out that the students and teachers had done
a tremendous job in attaining these results.
Statewide, thepercentage of all students passing
all portions of the reading, writing and math
TAAS taken this year compared to Goldthwaite
students follows:
Grade
3
5
7
8
Goldthwaite
77
90
81b
90
79
64
State
70
66
73
69
67
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Goldthwaite Masonic
Lodge #694
will hold its
meeting on the
Third Thurs. ,
of each month
at 7:00 p.m. at the
Masonic Hall
W. A. “Dub” Gunn, W.M.
. H. G. Brooks, Secretary
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8. Central Texas College cur-
rently has two college courses
going at night and two others
being done at the Info-Net sys-
tem.
9. The PTO presented gifts of
$700.00 to Principals Ron
Walker and Bill Foster to be
used at their campuses.
The Board took the following
action during the meeting:
1. Approved the minutes of
the regular meeting held May
13 and the special meeting held
May 23.
2. Approved the payment of
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LIZARD
TURTLE
SI
ALLIGATOI
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Water passes easily through this
WHATISAREPTILE? When
the average person thinks of rep- skin; therefore, most amphibians
turtles and tortoises lay eggs.
. continue to help provide the op-
portunities high school students
need in acquiring more credits
for graduation.
8. Approved the recommen-
dation of the administration to
employ Michelle M. Casto as a
teacher, subject to assignment
for 1996-97, to replace Rebecca
Nix at Goldthwaite High School.
After attending first grade
through high school in Italy,
Michelle earned her Bachelor of
- Arts Degree with Honors in Po-
litical Science, History, and
Spanish as a member of the
Douglas MacArthur Academy of
Freedom at Howard Payne Uni-
versity. She has tutored Span-
ish and Italian in both Italy and
the United States. She did her
student teaching at Brownwood
High School and will be begin-
§ ning her teaching career at GHS
when the 1996-97 school year
begins.
9. Approved the recommen-
dation of the administration to
reassign Brad Reynolds from
teaching at Goldthwaite High
School to the Alternative Edu-
cation Center.
/ 10. Heard reports that Ronny
Crumpton, teacher/coach from
Mullin ISD, is helping with the
driving portion of the Driver
Education classes and that Lidia
Vaquero, former aide at the
Mullin ISD, is helping with the
Migrant program during the
summer session.
11. Also during the meeting
heard an update on the progress
of the two construction projects
that are in progress at the E1-
s ementary campus.
tile, Jie thinks of a snake. But
actually, this class of animals in-
cludes many other creeping and.
crawling creatures.
In the animal kingdom, rep-
tiles rank between the amphib-
ians and the birds. Amphibians
are animals that can live both on
land and in the water. As a mat-
ter of fact, scientists believe that
birds developed from the reptiles
several million years ago. At that
time, the reptiles were the ruling
class among animals, and they
were often of giant size. But
these giant reptiles died out, and
the reptiles that are living today
are comparatively small. The
largest ofthese are crocodiles and
the python snakes.
In many ways, reptiles are
much like amphibians. All are
cold-blooded, creeping animals
with backbones. They are distin-
guished mainly by their lungs
and their skin. Amphibians
breathe through gills when they
are young, and later many kinds
develop lungs. Reptiles, on the
other hand, breathe by means of
lungs all their lives.
The skin of amphibians is
smooth and clammy, being kept
moist by special slime glands.
Many of the turtles live in or near
dry out and die if kept out of bodies of fresh water, while tor-
water for long. Reptiles have no -
slime glands, and their skin is
dry and scaly. Because water
cannot pass out through their .
toises live entirely upon land.
The alligators and crocodiles
and their relatives are long, four
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skin, reptiles are able to live en-
tirely on land.
The reptiles living today are
divided into four main groups:
the turtles, the crocodilians, the
lizards, and snakes, and the
strange lizard-like tuatara ofNew
Zealand.
Turtles and tortoises differ from
other reptiles in having their bod-
ies surrounded by a bony shell
covered with horny shields. All
limbed animals having scales or
plates covering their bodies. Alli-
gators and crocodiles are so much
alike that it may take an expert to
tell them apart. In the United
States, however the alligators
have a shorter and broader snout
than the crocodiles.
Lizards and snakes belong to
the highest order or reptiles. The
main difference between lizards
and snakes is in the structure of
the jaws. In snakes, both uppei
and lower jaws have movable
halves with sharp recurved teeth.
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Attorney At Law
General Practice
Mills County
Courthouse
915/648.3024
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Bridges, G. Frank & Bridges, Georgie. The Goldthwaite Eagle (Goldthwaite, Tex.), Vol. 102, No. 48, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 13, 1996, newspaper, June 13, 1996; Goldthwaite, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1658641/m1/3/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Jennie Trent Dew Library.