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Panama City News Herald Sunday (Newspaper) - April 8, 2007, Panama City, Florida Metro Edition PANAMA CITY if NEWS HERALD SPORTS East boys and girls winners 1C WEATHER FORECAST Complete details on Today Afternoon rain HIGH LOW 59 44 Monday Morning rain HIGH LOW 53 53 AT A GLANCE LOCAL 1B Beach looking to bolster EMS Steady growth in the fulltime population of Panama City Beach and unincorporated west of the Hathaway as well as increases in tourist are severely straining the current EMS officials NATION 4 years after Baghdad is in agony In when Saddam Hussein ruled a woman named had three handsome They had grown into good men with wives and In it was a much better life than she YOUNG ARTIST Todays artwork is by Noah a student at Panama City Christian Ask Amy Business Classified Crossword Deaths Learning 80 26 MD 2A Movies Nations World 411 A Out About 680 Sports 11 Viewpoints Weather SITE N a v 1 a t e the Coast Emerald com A Freedom paper read by people every Sunday 6 42694 Susan Page Editor 7475088 April 2007 T VIEWPOINTS No longer the masters of our fate Voter Guide ELECTION 2007 SPECIAL See Pages 61 OB Officials try to improve black males academic performance T h e ac h i eve m e n t ga p By Donna Vavala News Herald Writer 7475045 Ginger Littleton taught in the Bay District schools for more than two For she was nagged by the fact that black males scored substantially below whites and other races on achievement What could be she to turn their abysmal performance around as a School Board member charged with improving education for all she decided it was time to ook for She obtained last years reading and math sorted them by race and cre ated some The results revealed powerful This is a problem that people are seeing across the said Jen spokeswoman for the Florida Department of or Youll see that the per of male cans tends to lag behind their female and it is something that we have been looking at for 10 years in We need to find a way to close the DOE created Just Florida and the Math and Science among other to help address the Fennel What statistics show In scores last Ginger Littleton and Rufus L Wood talk with students at Oscar Patterson Elementary Magnet School in Panama Wood regularly mentors the students in spelling and other a On the Web See statistical graphs at 89 percent of whites read at 66 percent of His panics read at level and 69 percent of blacks read at Although 69 percent is not that there is a missing There was only one African American boy who was reading at that said The girls were holding up the In ensuing school scores for black students fluctuated slightly but still remained below whites and His panics until eighth when a dramatic drop While 59 percent of whites and 33 percent of Hispanics were reading at only 30 percent of blacks were where they were supposed to The gap increased even more dra in 10th when 38 percent of whites were at 32 percent of Hispanics were at level but only 13 percent of blacks attained reading Many black See GAP 2A Fire under for now By Andy Meinen News Herald Writer APALACHICOLA A fire that burned LOGO acres of forest of Apalachicola was contained late an official Butch director of Franklin County Emergency said everyone is in a mode until this but only a few hot spots in the northwest corner of the area concerned forestry This cold snap is bringing very low he The low moisture coupled with windy condi tions expected for today has prompted the National Weather Ser vice to issue a red flag warning for most of the eastern Panhandle and all of the Big Bend meaning the threat for fires is If that section in the northwest corner flares up he theyre hedging their bets on that Fire crews battled the blaze throughout Friday night and Satur day and it jumped 98 a few west of sev eral prompting officials to close the highway Friday said Todd spokesman for the Florida Division of Closure of the stretch of highway has forced a more than Officials at 5 CDT today will reassess whether the highway can be See FIRE 2A Coming Monday Whos leading in Panama City Commission fundraising Inside Voter 61 OB demons leads in fundraising Panama City mayor raises least amount among 4 vying for office By Brady Calhoun News Herald Writer 7475075 PANAMA CITY It is unclear if Scott demons has the but he certainly has the After the last reporting period ended on March demons was way ahead of all the contenders for Panama City mayor with Bob a commissioner who served with demons father for two is second with Cliff Fleming and incumbent Lauren DeGeorge are far behind with and Barnard and demons received financial support from nearly every seg ment of Panama City including hairstylists and My goal as mayor is to bring people Clemons The diversity of the sup port both in contri butions and in yard signs demonstrates that Clemons said he will use the money on television time and direct mail but adds money is only one part of a The success of the campaign is going to depend upon my ability to per sonally touch as many people as I can and have volunteers help in reaching out to Clemons a veteran of the City said he needed the in order to get his name out to the Im very humbled by Barnard Ive got a lot of support of people Ive worked with over the past years in Theyve come for Fleming said he has enough to get my message He said hes already spent on television spots and plans to make another one with his own It doesnt intimidate me that the other guys have raised more Fleming I hope in the runoff that some of those folks will be with In order to win the April 17 one candidate must receive 50 percent of the vote plus If no candidate gets many then the top two will face each other in a DeGeorge said the reason others have raised so much money is because they are in the pockets of rich Its Its about money and development and DeGeorge I think the lines been That she is between the people who support the middle and the who want to eliminate the middle following are contributions and expenditures from 1 through the lat est reporting period on March Abo included is a list of contributions of more than Tlie occupations of tors are listed if the candidate prodded See FUNDRAISING 2A

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