Burleson Star (Burleson, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 124, Ed. 1 Wednesday, August 8, 1990 Page: 4 of 12
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4—Burleson Star, Wednesday, August 8, 1990
—Four teachers resign and 15 are'hired
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gram AEP—for bad conduct or tor
failing to complete an^nsignment.
"Let parents know what the
problem is," Tiller said.
Crummel explained that AEP is
a "steppingstone structure," allowing
the students more freedom as they
advance from junior high to the high
school.
"At junior high we pull them in
as soon as they mess up. At high
school it is reserved for the serious
offenses," Crummel said.
New teachers go through a mi-
nimum of six hours of assertive disci-
pline because new teachers seem to
have the biggest struggle in being
consistent with discipline.
The board accepted the tax of-
fice report for June with the total
collections at $158,242.98. Current
collections were $117,796.91; cur-
rent penalty and interest was
$17,051.63; delinquent collections
were $15,207.64; and delinquent
penally and interest was $8,206.80.
The weighted grade point plan
for determining seniorclass rank was
accepted by the school board toapply
to the graduating class of 1991 and
thereafter. .High school principal
Terry Ford is slated to speak to the 20
studcnjcommittee membprs' shortly
after school begins in order to pass on
information about the weighted
grade point average.
The following resignations were
accepted by the school board.
—Greg Bowling, teachcr/coach
for Burleson Junior High School
resigned July 12 in order to take a
position with with the Arlington
Independent School District.
—Elizabeth Wilson, Burleson
High School teacher, resigned July
23 in order to take a position as ntin-
Burleson ISD Citizens;
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The Texas Supreme Court on Oct. 2,1989, unanimously upheld the lower court ruling that the
Texas system of public school finance was unconstitotionai. The state legislature has been meeting in
special sessions in order to address the school finance issue. A school finance bill was finally passed
and signed by the Governor in June, 1990. In an effort to address the school finance issue as it
pertains to the Burleson ISD, I will attempt to explain the legislative changes as clearly as possible.
Through the Foundation School Fund, the state provides monies to each district that will estab-
lish a minimum educational program for each student School districts can qualify for additional
funds from the guaranteed yield ftrnd if their effort indicates they are attempting to help themselves
through local taxes.
Senate Bill I, the school finance bill, addresses distribution of the guaranteed yield funds by
raising the amount that each district should tax if they want to receive the maximum state funds
available to their district If a district does not feet a tax rate to achieve the level needed to receive the
maximum state funds for 1990-1991 school year, the funds received for 1991-92 through 1994-1995
will be limited. This means that no matter how much the district raises taxes after 1990-91, the
district will he limited in bow much they qualify for additional state funds (guaranteed yield) through
1994-1995.
According to Senate BIB 1, afl districts who receive the extra ftmds from the guaranteed yield
program, eventually will reach the level of taxation of at least $1.18 by the 1994-95 school year. This
plan was an attempt to equalize funding among the school districts, but unfortunately the burdenof
this alternate funding is placed ou the citizens of the school district in the form of rising ad valorem
taxes in order to qualify for the additional state funds.
State funding of public schools in Texas as a whole has declined from 50 percent to 42 percent in
recent years. I am concerned that public schools and Burleson ISD in particular are losing public
support because property taxes are becoming excessive. The current taxing program that provides
support for school districts relies too heavily on property taxes. In the case of Burleson ISD, our
taxable property consists primarily of homeowners, while the State of Texas has a much more
diverse source of taxation more acceptable to the public than the Burleson ISD tax base or the tax
base of any other property poor school district. o
If you are interested in long term solutions to the concern over increasing property taxation, I
encourage you to Join the Burleson ISD Board of Trustees ip trying to accomplish tbe following
changes. The local board has beea working for the following for several years.
—Support pBbtfepdfcv which requires the state fo provide at least 50 percent of the funding for
paUkteeffiMltary and secondary schools. Support a more equitable and adequate distribution of
stite fends for public education and urge our state legislators and state officials to adequately
addtoaattts issue.
—Urge our state legislators and officials to step mandating programs and/or services to be
carried out in local school districts without adequate funding provided by the state.
—Urge our state legislators and officials to address the Issue of restructuring the state’s tax
system to lessen the reliance on the property tax to find local and state services.
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Superintendent of Schools
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budgeted expenditure per student during the 1989-1990 school year for
* to a state average of $4,303 per student. The per student expend!-
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Countries engaging in terrorism is topic
WASHINGTON-House de-
bate over whether to impose a
total trade embargo on Iraq in
the wake of that country’s sur-
prise invasion of Kuwait, pro-
duced an agreement to hold a
hearing on Congressman Joe
Barton's bill to strip Most
Favored Nation (MFN) status
from any country found to be en-
gaged in state sponsored ter-
rorism.
"I think this is a victory for
thinking more strategically about
these events. This is not the first
time Iraq has violated standards
of decent conduct—they have
made a profession of it. Unfor-
tunately, the United States
rewards that conduct with Most
Favored Nation Status. We wait
until they do something so horr-
ible that we cannot ignore it and
then we react,” said Barton.
"If Iraq had learned that there
is a cost to this kind of activity in
the past, perhaps we would not
have the situation we have
today," said Barton. “If my bill
had been in effect, they would
have paid a price for their past
behavior, because Iraq was on
the State Department’s terrorist
nation list from 1979 to 1984
Perhaps that would have made
them think twice before they took
this action.”
In House action on the Iraq
embargo bill, Barton agreed not
to block consideration of the hill
in exchange for Congressman
Sam Gibbons (Dem., Florida),
Chairman of the International
Trade Sub-committee, agreeing
to hold a hearing on Barton’s
anti-terrorism bill.
As America shrinks its military
muscle, countries like Iraq may
be more willing to terrorize their
neighbors,” said Barton. “We
have got to prepare a policy now
to make sure countries like Iraq
pay a price.”
Barton’s bill has already gained
184 cosponsors in the House.
Last week, Senator Connie Mack
(Rep., Florida) introduced
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—Janies Daniel Ncucc, BHS
teacher/coach resigned July 27.
—Diana Anderson, BHS
teacher, resigned.
The hinng of the following per-
sonnel on probationary contracts was
accepted by the board.
—Nola Dunn Elementary:
Nancy Lee McCoy, Jacqueline C.
Collins, and Carla Golden Benefield.
—Norwood Elementary: Amy
Williams.
—Mound Elementary: Jennifer
May Hammond, Cecille Lanne
Davis, Helen Marie Sharber, and
Deborah Ramsey.
—Taylor Elementary: Mary E.
Mitchell.
—Burleson Junior High School:
John Paul Slovak, Mayle R. Heiskcll
(BJHS and Burleson High School),
Belinda Arnold, and Amy Beth
Walker.
Burleson High School: Janice L.
Morgan and Donald Lee Williams.
In other board news;
—Appointed Dora Ussery and
Ronnie Johnson to help Deputy Su-
perintendent Nick Kerr dispose of
and/or sell surplus equipment, sup-
plies, and/or junk during the 1990-91
fiscal year.
—Authorized the purchase of
three new school buses.
—Approved participation in the
Tax Anticipation Notes program
sponsored by the Texas School Serv-
ices Foundation.
—And, discuss the funding of
public education in Texas (see ac-
companying letter from Cocker-
ham).
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identical bill in the - United
States Senate.
If the Barton bill passes, coun-
tries identified as supporting
terrorism—such as Iran, Libya
and Syria—will no longer enjoy
preferred trade status with the
United States.
II passed, the Barton/Mack bill
will require the Secretary of
Defense to maintain a list of
countries known to support
terrorism»and would deny MFN
status to any nation on the list
The President would have the
authority to waive the sanction if
necessary to the national in-
terest.
"Right now there are almost no
penalties for being an enemy of
the United States," said Barton.
"We maintain a list of terrorist
' countries but we don’t do any-
thing with it. Those countries con-
tinue to make money selling oil
to the United States and then
turn around and buy tanks to roll
over their neighbors.
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