Crockett Elementary Named Blue Ribbon School
Crockett Elementary in Baytown is among 24 Texas schools honored as Blue Ribbon Schools. Secretary of Education Rod Paige announced the 2003 winners, praising principals teachers and students for excellence and progress toward No Child Left Behind goals. Goose Creek ISD Superintendent Barbara Sultis called it a feather in Crockett’s cap for Principal Sue Chatham and the school community. The selection reflects the program’s shift to recognize high achievement and notable improvement, with criteria including disadvantaged student performance.
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Baytown
Texas
Crockett
Rod Paige
Paige
Bush
Goose Creek
Barbara Sultis
Sue Chatham
Texas school ratings challenged by Crosby official
Crosby superintendent Don Hendrix denounces federal No Child Left Behind ratings as biased by a 95 percent participation cut. He argues Texas high school attendance routinely falls below 95 percent, causing mistaken “Needs Improvement” tags in TEA’s NCLB release addressed to House committee chair Kent Grusendorf.
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Baytown
Texas
Texas Education Agency
Don Hendrix
Crosby
Kent Grusendorf
R-Arlington
House Public Education
St Bata Area United Way Campaign Under Way
Baytown reports the local United Way drive is in progress with a history of names reflecting its charitable mission. The article notes the national United Way model of pooling local group efforts to direct resources efficiently.
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Baytown
Charity Organization Society
Crusade For Mercy
Community Chests
Red Feather Fund
National United Way
Wetlands center hosts plant sale Saturday
The Chandler Arboretum holds a fall sale at Eddie V. Gray Wetlands Center from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Proceeds fund the Visitors and Education Center. Highlights include cold-tolerant palms for Baytown and low-light interior palms along with fall mums, daylilies, and heirloom bulbs. Harris County horticultural staff and volunteers will answer questions.
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Chandler Arboretum
Eddie V. Gray
Arboretum
Baytown
Harris County
Library unveils upgraded Web site with new features
Sterling Municipal Library released a redesigned site funded by a 2500 grant via the Houston Area Library System. The upgrade emphasizes ease of use with renewals and holds, plus a youth section with bibliographies and science fair topic lists linking to catalog details and availability.
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Baytown
Sterling Municipal Library
Houston Area
Karin Dickey
Library Board
Fischer
Author to talk books today in Sterling Library
Glenn Blake, an award winning local author, discusses his work at 7 p.m. in Sterling Municipal Library. He grew up in Baytown near the Old and Lost Rivers and teaches writing at Rice University and the University of Houston. His first book Drowned Moon appeared in 2001 from Johns Hopkins Press, a collection of stories set in southeast Texas around Hurricane Alicia. He is finishing a second collection How Far Are We From the Water set in the Brownwood subdivision, now the Baytown Nature Center site after storms and subsidence. His next book publishing next fall.
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Sterling Municipal Library
Blake
Baytown
Rice University
University of Houston
Johns Hopkins University Press
Texas
Alicia
Brownwood
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Baytown Sun
Carla Rabalais
Barbers Hill Middle School
Ryan Erickson
Caleb Lowery
Duddin Presnall
Kirk Hall
Crimson
St Bata Area
United Way
Ken Fountain
The
Wetlands Center
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