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Thursday, August 16, 200l*C'edar Hill Today*Page 3
EDUCATION
College News
LUNCH MENU
Texas A&M —
Kingsville
Kingsville- It’s been a long hot
summer, but it is over for Adaora
Chioma Ihemelu, one of 229 gradu-
ates who marched across the stage at
the Steinke Physical Education
Center on the campus of Texas
A&M University-Kingsville at 7
p.m. Aug. 10, to receive their
degrees.
Ihemelu, a resident of Cedar Hill,
graduated with a bachelor of sci-
ence. Texas A&M University alum-
nus and State Representative Irma
Rangel gave the commencement
address to the graduates and their
families. Bachelor^ degrees were
awarded to 115 students and mas-
ter’s degrees were given to 112 stu-
dents. Two students received doctor-
ate degrees, one in education and
one in wildlife science.
When they entered the university,
209 of the graduates were from
Texas, four were from other states
and 16 were from other countries.
The average age of bachelor's
graduates was nearly 27 years old.
The average age of a student receiv-
ing a master’s degree was 35 and the
average age of students receiving a
doctorate was age 35. The youngest
graduate was 20 with the oldest stu-
dent at 63.
Of the 115 bachelor’s graduates,
68 entered the university as first
time freshmen and 47 entered as
transfer students.
The college of education had the
most graduates with 97. It was fol-
lowed by the college of arts and sci-
ences with 63, the college of engi-
neering with 26, the college of busi-
ness administration with 25 and the
college of agriculture and human
sciences with 18.
Cereal, toast and juice are
served daily for breakfast.
Milk is offered daily for
breakfast and lunch.
Aug. 20
Elementary breakfast
Breakfast pizza
Lunch
K-4
Nautical nuggets with mac
and cheese or pepperoni
pizza, green peas, pear
halves.
5-12
Ft/
pudding, fruit.
Aug. 21
Elementary breakfast
Waffles
Lunch
K-4
Chili mac with combread or
tacos with lettuce and toma-
to, refried beans, cinnamon
apples.
5-12
Steak fingers with roll,
mashed potatoes, gravy,
green peas, fruit.
Aug. 22
™ "entary breakfast
ge biscuit
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Lunch
K-4
Sub sandwich or cheese
pizza, carrot and celery
sticks, pears.
5-12
Ravioli with breadstick,
tossed salad, peach crisp,
fruit.
Aug. 23
Elementary breakfast
French toast sticks
Lunch
K-4
Chicken lingers or pepperoni
pizza, potato rounds, sliced
carrots, chilled peaches.
5-12
Pork chopette with roll,
mashed potatoes, gravy,
broccoli with cheese, fruit.
Aug. 24
Elementary breakfast
English muffin with ham
Lunch
K-4
Hamburger/cheeseburger or
Chicken salad croissant,
oven fries, applesauce, birth-
day ice cream cup.
5-12
1 lam and cheese subs, potato
wedges, baked beans, fruit.
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“We want the numbers to
reflect the population num-
bers, or at least get closer to
them,” he said. “Home-
schooling is not just for a sec-
tor of Americans, it’s for
everybody who wants to do
it.”
A variety of internet
resources exist for parents
who educate their kids at
home, and several support
groups - such as the Texas
Homesehool Coalition - exist
to offer learning materials,
speakers and ideas.
But to date, Johnson said
he knows of no support group
in Texas geared toward the
minority parent, who may feel
especially isolated because of
the statistics.
Sometimes, he said, minor-
ity parents wish they could
homesehool their children but
don’t for lack of confidence.
Many minority parents may
feel homeschooling is an
option available only to the
well-to-do.
^Others may worry they*
aren’t educated enough or
trained appropriately to teach
their children.
Johnson, who works as a
veterinary nutritionist at the
Dallas Zoo, said there are a
variety of ways that minority
parents may group together to
share the tasks of homeschool-
ing.
For instance, his group has
formed a co-op with St. John’s
Missionary Baptist Church to
provide a health and physical
education class for local
homeschoolers.
He cautioned that home-
schooling is not for everyone
and said his and his wife’s
decision to homesehool their
kids was not the result of dis-
satisfaction with Cedar Hill
schools.
Rather, he said his three
children showed a strong
interest in learning at an early
age. He and his wife, a former
Dallas schoolteacher, decided
to start teaching them at home
instead of waiting for them to
reach school age.
Now, Lola, 10; Layo, 8; and
Lade, 7, remain ahead of their
age-group scholastically,
according to yearly achieve-
ment testing that the
Obamehintis require for their
children.
“Homeschooling can be
very rewarding,” Johnson said.
“We’re just offering help for
anybody who needs it.”
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sures taken on some student
groups.
Along that same vein, a pre-
liminary discipline report for
the 2000-01 school year was
also presented to the board at
the meeting.
Dr. Larry Watson, the associ-
ate superintendent of adminis-
trative services for the district,
presented the report. He said
that although the report did out-
line the decisions administra-
tors have to make on a daily
basis, more specific informa-
tion was difficult if not impossi-
ble to discern. Since the report-
ing software was not designed
to do so, principals did not out-
line offenses. The reports only
showed what action was taken
on those offenses and therefore
were less reliable than had been
hoped.
Still, school board members
asked Watson to delve deeper
into the numbers and find out
why minority students seem to
be punished at a disproportion-
ate rate to other students.
The disciplinary process was
also the object of discussion for
several parents in the meeting’s
public forum.
Cedar Hill resident Sylvia
Donavante asked that the school
district make sure there was
some sense of accountability
for teachers when it comes to
discipline meted out. She said
that she would like the board to
make sure that “at some point,
the disciplinary actions arc
reviewed.
“You look at what teachers
are giving a lot of detentions
and what they are giving deten-
tions for, so they understand
they can't give a detention for
no reason. There should be
some type of review process. I
think that is very important.”
Brenda Washington, another
resident and parent, had spoken
about the discipline policies of
the district at a previous board
meeting and touched on them
lightly before moving on to
another topic of concern for her
and other parents at the meet-
ing.
“We are losing too many of
our excellent, qualified, well-
experienced minority teachers,”
Washington said. “Our children
are upset.
Cedar Hill is becoming more
multicultural. They want to see
what they see in the neighbor-
hoods in the classroom.
“We hire minority teachers,
but they don't stay. Why?”
In other board news, the dis-
trict received a $I0,7(X) grant
for their work with the
advanced placement classes.
More than 150 students at
Cedar Hill High School took
AP tests last year, earning the
district $100 or less from the
Texas Education Agency for
each high score.
Hudson said the money
would aid in the transition of
younger grades into AP classes.
Tying into that grant, Hudson
told the board that the district
identified more than 520 stu-
dents for its Gifted and Talented
Program. About 38 percent of
those identified are minority
students, when three years ago,
only 10 percent of the students
identified were considered
minority students.
Hudson also reported that
the district had received a Class
Size reduction Grant for its
third year in a row. As the name
implies, the non-competitive
grant is designed to reduce the
number of students in class-
rooms from the standard 22-1
student-teacher ratio now in
place. Statistics showed that
IAAS scores went up signifi-
cantly in the classes which
received the grants last year.
The grant will total $66,666,
compared to last year, when the
district was awarded $54,450.
The grant will replace one
teacher at Highland and will
pay for a “half-teacher” at
Plummer.
The board also heard a
report about the Model Reading
Intervention Program Grant
reported on in Cedar Hill Today
last week. The $349,000 grant
will fund a program to identify
students who are reading at a
sub-par level and bring their
reading skills up to grade level
“We feel this is going to
make a big difference in grades
3-6,” Hudson said.
Hudson commended retired
district employee fish Costello
on her part in writing the grant
proposal and her commitment
to the future of the program.
And as Hudson had. Trustee
Terrel Nemons also congratu-
lated everyone involved with
winning the grant.
“I think it’s great that we
have people on staff who can
articulate (our needs) and get
these grants,” Nemons said. “I
commend you for what you are
doing.”
Also, Permenter Middle
School was named a high per-
forming school by the Just for
Kids website. As Trustee James
Charles presented the award, he
explained that the award was
based on a three-year review of
the school’s performance.
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Notice of Public Hearing on Tax Increase
The CITY OF CEDAR HILL TEXAS will hold a public hearing on a proposal to
increase total tax revenues from properties on the tax roll in the preceding year
by 7.504 percent. Your individual taxes may increase at a greater or lesser rate,
or even decrease, depending on the change in the taxable value of your property
in relation to the change in taxable value of all other property and the tax rate
that is adopted.
The public hearing will be held on August 28,2001 at 6:30 PM at COUNCIL
CHAMBERS, CITY HALL, 502 CEDAR HILL, TX 75104.
FOR the proposal:
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The following table compares taxes on an average home in this taxing unit last
year to taxes proposed on the average home this year. Again, your individual
taxes may be higher or lower, depending on the taxable value of your property.
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Last Year
This Year
Average residence homestead value $96,125
$104,649
General exemptions available
so
$0
(amount available on the average homestead, not including senior
citizen's or disabled person's exemptions)
Average taxable value
$96,125
$104,649
Tax rate (per $100)
0.64269
0.64140
Tax
$617.79
$671.22
Under this proposal, taxes on the average homestead would increase by
$53.43 or 8.65 percent compared with last year's taxes. Comparing tax
rates without adjusting for changes in property value, the tax rate would
decrease by $0.00129 per $100 of taxable value or 0.20 percent compared to
last year's lax rate These tax rate figures are not adjusted for changes in
the taxable value of property.
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Crooks, Kristi. Today Cedar Hill (Duncanville, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 22, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 16, 2001, newspaper, August 16, 2001; Duncanville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth541819/m1/3/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Zula B. Wylie Memorial Library.