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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 2014
Page
4
A reader criticizes liberal approaches to funding education, alleging waste and incompetence in districts. The letter claims school districts hire poor administrators, alter test scores, and misuse funds while proposing money and bonds as the solution. It argues for businesslike school management and dismisses charter schools and immigrant students.
Galveston County Daily News argues the Texas finance system underfunds districts with high economically disadvantaged enrollments. The piece cites a 2009 Texas A M University study showing costs are 27.6 percent higher to educate disadvantaged students and urges starting funding changes at that recognition.
The Baytown Sun brings back the 1980s Youth Booth feature to give students and younger writers a platform. Submissions can be poems short stories essays or book reflections up to 200 words with no publication contact details and a non publishing address and phone number.
On this date in history, the Continental Congress assembled in Philadelphia in 1774, Sam Houston elected Texas president in 1836, Louisiana abolished slavery in 1864, FDR declared U.S. neutrality in 1939, Kerouac's On the Road published in 1957, JFK criminalized aircraft hijacking in 1961, Ford survived an assassination attempt in 1975, Discovery completed its first mission in 1984, and Mother Teresa died in 1997. Hurricane Frances struck Florida's coast ten years ago.
A Baytown community survey shares a diverse chorus of coffee choices from Folgers Classic Roast to Kona dark and Green Mountain Sumatran Reserve. Readers name brands, brews, and rituals while weaving in humor, nostalgia, and local pride in a lively morning rite.
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