Perry backs public school choice pilot program in Texas
Gov Rick Perry expressed support for a public school choice pilot using taxpayer funds to send students from failing schools to private schools. He said he would like to see a voucher bill, though lawmakers have not committed. Perry criticized rival Strayhorn and noted the special session aims to cut property taxes while increasing funding for public schools.
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Austin
Rick Perry
Perry
Carole Keeton Strayhorn
Comptroller
Associated Press
Bahamas
James Leininger
San Antonio
Coalition For Public Schools
Texas
Paper Flowers Bloom From ESOL Class For Cinco de Mayo
Odessa College ESOL students from Mexico and Central America craft paper decorations for Cinco de Mayo. Maria Tavarez shows a blue tissue banner as she recalls learning crafts in school. The session evokes Dia de los Muertos memories and Mexican traditions of durable, color rich paper art for celebrations.
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Odessa College
Annex B
Mexico
Central America
Maria Tavarez
Chihuahua
Tavarez
Edgar Vasquez
Task force audience speaks up about 37th Grandview traffic
About ten audience members spoke at a school traffic task force meeting held at the Presidential Museum. Permian High School band director Mike Watts urged installing a traffic light at 37th Street and Grandview Avenue citing left turn hazards. Carol and Mark Johnson presented a petition with about 1,500 signatures and pressed action on overgrown plants at the intersection.
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Presidential Museum
Permian High School
Mike Watts
37Th Street
Grandview Avenue
Watts
Grandview
Coe
Carol Johnson
Johnsons
37Th
Roy Eisner
Vets push for state cemetery in Basin near Odessa
Odessa veterans and Ector County officials back a state veterans cemetery for the Permian Basin to serve Odessa and Midland with full military honors. Permian Basin Veterans Council leader Victor Silvester urged selection of the area. his son James emphasized local burial options. Texas already hosts four national cemeteries and a proposed partnership with the Veterans Land Board and USDVA would fund construction and equipment.
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Odessa
Ector County
Permian Basin
Victor Silvester
Permian Basin Veterans Council
Midland
Silvester
James Silvester
Texas
el Paso
Dallas-Fort Worth
Houston
San Antonio
Iraq
Fort Bliss National Cemetery
Marine
Daniel Amaya
al Anbar
Texas Veterans Land Board
VLB
US Department of Veterans Affairs
USDVA
Deliberations begin in Lutheran abuse case
MARSHALL AP Jurors began deliberations in a sexual abuse lawsuit by nine alleged victims who say the Northern Texas Northern Louisiana Synod ignored warnings about minister Gerald Patrick Thomas Jr. Thomas, former pastor of Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Marshall, was later given 397 years in prison. Plaintiffs seek 50 million dollars for the two most traumatized victims.
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Marshall
Lutheran Synod
America
Louisiana Synod
Gerald Patrick Thomas Jr
Thomas
Good Shepherd Lutheran Church
East
Texas
Jason Stephens
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Paper Creations
Cinco de Mayo
By Sharon Denning
Odessa College Adult Education
Task Force
Basin
Ginger Pope
Evangelical Lutheran Church
Lutheran
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