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ALL THAT’S LEFT
Tire marks on a carpet stand as mute testimony to an accident early Sunday
morning in Seminole that did extensive damage to the residence of Trennia and
Tommy Sparks, 300 SW 19" Street in Seminole. According to police reports,
a pickup went through the front of the house, through the living room and all the
way back to the glass door leading out to the deck at the rear of the home. The
driver of the pickup then backed out of the house and left the scene. He was
located by police Monday.
Pickup truck runs
through local home
The annual Seminole Area
Chamber of Commerce School
Employee Coffee, to honor all
employees of Seminole 1SD, will take
place this Tuesday, Aug. 8,
beginning at approximately 8:45 a.m.
in the Seminole High School Activity
Center. All chamber members
helping with the event should be at
the activity center by 8:30 a.m.
In addition to special "door prizes”
throughout the coffee for unusual
occurances, several merchants have
donated items that will be given to
school employees.
As of presstime Friday, businesses
which have donated items to all
employees include. Cellular Plus,
First Choice Realtors, FNB Bank,
Seminole National Bank, Merle
Norman, NAPA Auto Parts, Edward
Jones Investments, Landmark Realty
and Dixie Lentz, Realtor. Oswalt
Pharmacy has donated dinner for two
to all new teachers in the school
system.
Others providing gifts for the
occasion, as of Friday, include,
Beall’s, Bonnie Ericson, Boyer
Funeral Home, Coast To Coast,
Clower’s Quick and Clean, Dee’s
Hallmark, Expressions, Friends,
Gaines County Fym Supply, Haney
Buxton, Howard McCaleb Tire,
Jenkins TV, K&S Steak Place, Lupc
Whitehead and Moore-Haralson
Insurance.
And, Seminole Floral, Seminole
Inn, The Seminole Sentinel,
Southwestern Public Service, State
Farm Insurance, Seminole ISD
Teacher’s Credit Union, The
Tannery, Thelma’s, U.S. Cable,
Pizza Pro, Seminole Sweet Shop,
Petals ’N Such, Looking Glass, Jim
Spence Auto, Seminole Excel Travel
and Lcn Gene Enterprises.
An accident involving a pickup and
a house at 300 SW 19th Street in
Seminole early Sunday morning did
heavy damage to both the vehicle and
the structure, but miraculously, no
injuries were reported.
According to investigating officers
of the Seminole Police Department,
the accident, which is still under
investigation, occurred just after 4:30
a.m. Sunday when a 1991 Chevrolet
three-quarter ton pickup, driven by
Jeremy Davis, 24, of 610 SW 9th
Street, was headed west on
Southwest Avenue C and failed to
stop at the intersection of Avenue C
and Southwest 19th.
The vehicle ran through the front of
a residence at 300 SW 19th owned
by Thomas Sparks, and into the
house. Police said the driver then
backed out of the residence and fled
the scene. Shortly thereafter, police
found the pickup in the 300 block of
Southeast Avenue B and noticed
extensive damage to the vehicle.
Police located Davis Monday and
he was verified as the driver of the
pickup.
Damage to the house had not been
estimated as of presstime Friday, but
was expected to be very heavy.
Although the investigation is
continuing, officers did believe
alcohol was involved in the accident.
Charges of reckless driving and
leaving the scene of an accident are
pending against Davis.
Sales Tax Holiday
Today (Sunday, Aug. 6) is the
final day of the second annual
sales tax holiday in Texas, which
began FYiday.
In many cases, no state or local
sales tax will be charged on
clothing and foot ware priced
under $100 through the close of
business today.
A complete list of tax exempt
and non-exempt items can be
found on the State Comptroller's
website at
<www.window.statc.tx.us> or on
the tax assistance hotline at 1-
800-252-5555.
Season Tickets
Season tickets for the upcoming
Seminole Indian football season
will be on sale to the general
public beginning this Monday,
Aug. 7.
Sales for last year’s option
holders took place last week.
Anyone wishing to purchase
season tickets should do so at the
school business office at the
administration building.
Employee Coffee
The annual Seminole Area
Chamber of Commerce School
Employee Coffee is set for Aug.
8 at the high school activity
center. ,N
Any business wishing to donate
door prizes for the event should
contact Shelby at the chamber,
758-2352.
GED Test
The General Education
Development (GED) lest will
next be administered Saturday,
Aug. 12, beginning at 8 a.m. in
Room 408 of Seminole High
School.
To register or for more
information, persons sliould
contact Becky Hamilton at 758-
6026 (home) or 758-2772
(work).
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BOOSTER CLUB OFFICERS
Officers for the Seminole Athletic Booster Club for 2000-2001, pictured from left, are, Stan Hughes, vice-president;
Kelly Chiles,,secretary; and Ted Ward, president. Not pictured is Jowana Norman, treasurer. At the club's initial
meeting of the year, the annual "Meet the Indians and Maidens” event was scheduled for 7:00 p.m., Thursday,
August 24th, at Wigwam Stadium.
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TEA sets new standards for academic performance
Saying the state needs to continue Hispanic, white and economically two labels which schools must proposed in June, when he issued his already have strong incentives to
raising expectations for both students
and schools, Texas Education
Commissioner Jim Nelson has
announced new standards designed to
toughen the state’s school
accountability system that rates
schools on their academic
performance.
The commissioner's decisions will
require schools to meet higher
standards beginning next year in
order to be rated as “acceptable” by
the Texas Education Agency (TEA),
and will also make it harder for
schools to earn the coveted
"exemplary” and “recognized” rating
labels, the accountability system’s
highest ratings. The standards also
call for the state to skip a year of
issuing ratings in 2003, the year the
state’s new testing program is phased
in.
New rules set new standards for
performance on both dropout rates
aral the TAAS test, the two indicators
on which school district and campus
ratings are based. Under the system,
schools get ratings based on the
TAAS scores and dropout rates of all
students and students in each of four
student groups-African American,
disadvantaged. The TAAS tests are
given in reading and mathematics in
third, fifth, sixth and seventh grades,
and in reading, writing and
mathematics in the fourth, eighth and
10th grades. Eighth graders also take
the TAAS tests in science and social
studies. Students must pass the 10th
grade test, known as the exit-level
exam, in order to receive a diploma.
Under the current accountability
system standards, school that have
TAAS passing rates of 90 percent for
all students and student groups and
dropout rates of one percent or less
for all students and student groups
are rated exemplary. School with
TAAS passing rates of 80 percent for
all students and student groups and
dropout rales of 3.5 percent or less
for all students and student groups
arc rated recognized. Schools whose
TAAS passing rates are at least 50
percent for all students and student
groups and havo dropout raters of six
percent or less for all students and
student groups are rated acceptable.
Performance lower than that required
for the acceptable rating makes a
school "low performing” or a school
district "academically unacceptable,”
communicate to their communities
and which also trigger an on-site visit
from teams of educators trained in the
state’s school accreditation process.
The 2000 accountability system
standards complete the full
implementation of the accountability
system as it was designed six years
ago. The new standards announced
by Nelson, which will take effect in
2001, begin a new era for the system.
Starting next year, schools districts
and campuses will have to have a
dropout rate of 5.5 percent or less for
all students and student groups in
order to be rated acceptable,
compared to the current standard of
six percent. In 2002, that standard
will be strengthened again, to five
percent or less, for all students and
student groups. Dropout standards
needed to receive the exemplary
rating will remain at their current
level of one percent or less, but
schools socking the recognized rating
cannot have a dropout rate higher
than throe percent in 2001 and 2.5
percent in 2002, compared to 3.5
percent his year.
The dropout standards arc not quite
as stringent as Nelson originally
preliminary recommendations on the
system for 2001 and beyond. Under
those recommendations, he proposed
lowering the maximum dropout rate
allowed for the acceptable rating to
five percent in 2001 and four percent
in 2002. But Nelson said comments
from superintendents and other
school district staff led him to scale
back that proposal-for now.
“Many felt that it was ‘too much-
too fast’ so I’ve decided not to make
'it as tough as proposed, for now,"
Nelson said. “But they can anticipate
a continuing move toward more
rigorous dropout standards in the
future. So I advise school
administrators to begin preparing for
it now, because it will come to pass.
They should start looking at how they
can strengthen their dropout
prevention and recovery programs,
and look at ways that they can keep
more of our Jtids in school."
Other changes to the accountability
system in 2001 include:
-Elimination of attendance rates in
determining district and campus
ratings. Many educators argued that
attendance rate is not a true
performance indicator, and districts
maximize their attendance because it
determines how much state education
money a district receives.
-Consideration of a district’s
special education compliance status.
By law, the effectiveness of a school
district’s special education program,
based on the Agency’s most recent
compliance . review, must be
considered in determining the
district’s rating.
-Changes to the size requirements
for student groups. A student group
will have to have at least 30 test
takers who comprise at least 10
percent of all test takers at a campus
or district. But if the group has at
least 50 test takers, then that group’s
performance will be evaluated,
regardless of the percent of total test
takers the group represents. For
dropouts, at least 10 dropouts must
be reported for a student group, and
the group must have at least 30
students in grades seven through 12
membership, who comprise at least
10 percent of the total. But if there
arc at least 50 students in
membership, the dropouts for the
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Total rainfall for Aug........ 18"
Total rainfall for 2000.....8.34"
(1999-Jm .90", Fab. .00, Mar. 1.92". Apr.
.73". May 7.37", June 143", July .42".
Aug. 3.76", Sept. 3.46", Oct .27", Nov.
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Total rainfall, 1999
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Average Aug. Low ...».....63.8
Average Aug. rainfall....... 2.18"
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Greatest Aug. rainfall,71.7.50”
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Dow, M. Gene & Fisher, David. Seminole Sentinel (Seminole, Tex.), Vol. 93, No. 84, Ed. 1 Sunday, August 6, 2000, newspaper, August 6, 2000; Seminole, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth838254/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Gaines County Library.