Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier (Newspaper) - February 10, 2003, Waterloo, Iowa MONDAY FEBRUARY FROM THE FRONT PAGE FALLS COURIER tests will be given verbally to children Continued from page A1 erratic to provide meaningful test results Those educators say the test is being created too quickly and they fear being penalized based on assessment practices they don't endorse It's still very controversial to give validity to assessments for little said Sarah M Greene president and CEO of the Head Start Association a nonprofit membership tion that advocates for grams in the country Any given day they could be happy or sad You don't know how they're going to perform An official with the local Tri- County Child and Family Development Council said she has yet to receive information about the new assessment but expects local Head Start classes to begin using it next fall We will adapt and do what we need to do to meet the federal said Becky Elson associate director in charge of educational es The program serves more than 800 children in Black Hawk Buchanan and Grundy counties Elson noted Head Start ers now do a different type of assessment three times per year Student performance is rated based on class observation and a portfolio of work such as ing and writing samples She said the current approach shows parents how much progress their child is making Early childhood learning experts say a successful ment would be more labor sive than the federal plan allows and would need to take into account more a child's social and ethnic backgrounds Critics also worry too much focus on math and reading will undermine the other objectives of Head Start which was as part of President Lyndon B Johnson's War on Poverty gram to bring social health and educational services to needy children and their families It's always a said Elson We don't want to lose our family services and the health services we currently provide To help the child we need to ue working with the family Federal officials say those objectives will not be under- mined and note they are dated to ensure preschoolers meet educational standards developed in the 1998 of Head Start According to those standards children of that age should appreciate listening to books recognize the importance of the alphabet and be able to hold ple conversations In the tests youngsters will be asked to verbally name or point out letters of the alphabet or count out loud The test will ly last 20 to 25 minutes and be performed on a one-on-one basis with a child twice a year IRAQ French say it's premature to engage in war planning Continued from page A1 with germ warfare and poison gas attacks to Turkey with the latest delay Turkey was expected to call for urgent consultations under NATO's mutual defense treaty Diplomats said they expected France and the other holdouts to drop their objections to the military planning faced with a direct request from the Turks under the treaty Meanwhile Russian President Vladimir Putin ed to Paris today to discuss Iraq with President Jacques Chirac another leading opponent of war against Saddam At a weekend meeting in Munich Defense Secretary Donald H Rumsfeld warned delays in responding to Turkey's request were inexcusable and risked undermining the of the alliance Rumsfeld intensified his cism Sunday in an interview Italy's La Republica newspaper Shameful for me it's truly Rumsfeld was ed as saying Turkey is an ally An ally that is risking thing How can you refuse it French officials countered it was too early to start military preparations while diplomatic efforts continued to avoid war Good jobs are hard to find but perseverance paid off Continued from page A1 don't think I could do it Still jobs in the Cedar Valley where Pugh continued to raise his family were scarce Needing the paycheck and the benefits he kept working as a If you're sweeping floors and cleaning toilets with a master's degree that's tough to he said Now remarried Pugh credits his wife Willie Mae with helping him get through the tough times when he found it hard to land the types of jobs he wanted got very down at one point thinking he made the wrong decision by going to Willie Mae said He thought he had waited too late He thought that maybe his age was playing a part which made him more anxious to find thing quickly Pugh agreed So many times I felt like throwing in the he said She really encouraged me A couple months ago Pugh a grandfather learned of the assistant technical tor position opening in the UNI School of Music He applied and was hired The day he got the phone call he was just Willie Mae said He was crying and I thought something had happened I asked What's the He said I got the It was very emotional Pugh is responsible for two of the performance stations in the school of music He takes care of scheduling and makes sure the lighting sound and everything else is functioning properly He trains a student work crew to run events As a bass player and the tor of the male at the Community Southern Baptist Church in Waterloo Pugh feels at home school of music The best thing about it is he knows all the School of Music students from working at his job in Russell Dubois said They all know him and they all love him It was a natural fit Meanwhile Pugh is busy learning the ins and outs of his new position But he's busy with a smile I learned that you can never give up on your he said It all boils down Better late than never items Online RUM TAX FREE EXCHANGE I have made a huge paper profit on a building and am ready to sell How can I do this and defer paying the You can accomplish this result with a tax-free exchange To qualify both properties must be held for productive use in ness or investment and must be of like but most real property held for business or investment would be considered so The most significant advantage is that you use the inflated current value of your present property without ing to pay the tax on the profit because it is an exchange not a sale 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