Montgomery County Schools Earn Five Satisfactories One Excellent
State Board of Education released a five year performance report giving Montgomery County several scores. The district earned one excellent rating for 99.1 percent annual promotion in grades 1-6 and five satisfactories for standardized tests attendance and dropout rates. The county also had one standard not yet met with 92.1 percent attendance in grades 7-12. Superintendent Harry Pitt praised the diversity and overall performance despite large ESOL and free-lunch populations. Board President Robert Shoenberg questioned the measure’s relevance to actual school quality.
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Rockville
Montgomery County
State Board of Education
Maryland
Harry Pitt
Robert E. Shoenberg
Sikh militants fire on Amritsar market killing 13
Suspected Sikh separatists attacked the Krishna Kot market in Amritsar, opening fire on shoppers and injuring at least 15 as part of a wave of violence in Punjab. Five militants cut electricity, then fired at shops with automatic rifles, police said.
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Amritsar
India
Punjab
Krishna Kot
Sanjeev Gupta
Middletown carpenter hurt in hunting accident fund set up
Alton Frushour, 50, severely injured when a tree branch gave way during a deer hunt near Myarsville. He suffered a crushed elbow, a smashed wrist, a dislocated lip, broken ribs, a broken collarbone, and a collapsed lung. He has been unable to work. insurance coverage is in dispute. The Middletown FFA Alumni Association opened a fund at Middletown Valley Bank to aid his family, with checks payable to the Alton Frushour Fund.
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Middletown
Alton Frushour
Frushour
Oy State Police Medivac
Washington County Hospital
Hagerstown
Middletown Ffa
Middletown Valley Bank
David Axline
Denuc Gi Vay
Local Reserve unit mobilization briefing at Fort Detrick
Fort Detrick Marines and reserve personnel prepare for mobilization as a 14 ton light armored vehicle unit operates on base. A briefing for Marines families and employers is set for 7 p.m. Saturday in Strough Auditorium. The call up added to 26,625 Army and Marine reserves activated in the Gulf crisis.
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Fort Detrick
Army
Marine Corps
Atlanta tightens curfew to curb youth crime
Atlanta enforces its strictest youth curfew since the early 1980s with 11 PM to 6 AM street ban for under 17. Three youths were picked up. two released to parents, one 17 year old girl returned home after her parents declined custody. Police target drug hotspots and nightclubs as city aims to reduce crime rates.
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Atlanta
America
J. Taylor
Taylor
American Civil Liberties Union
Maynard Jackson
Eidrin A. Bell
FBI
U.S
Bell
Meeles
Kohl appeals for help in Europe's transition
German Chancellor Helmut Kohl urged the world's wealthy nations to assist Eastern Europe as it moves to democracy, warning that economic hardship and social unrest could cause collapse. He cited joint plans with Mikhail Gorbachev and Bush to ship emergency food to the Soviet Union, and pledged that Germany will use its power to promote peace.
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Helmut Kohl
Europe
Bush
Kohl
Germany
Soviet Union
Mikhail S
Gorbachev
United States
Margaret Thatcher
European Community
West Germany
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