ECISD School Notebook Highlights Weekly Activities
The ECISD Weekly School Notebook lists upcoming programs and schedules across campuses. Highlights include Loyalty as this month's trait, advanced academic services applications due by February 11, and various tutorials, GREAT programs, PTA events, and nurse days across Bowie, Ector, Austin, Blanton, Burleson, Burnet, Cameron, Cavazos, and Nimitz schools with details on times and grade levels.
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Bowie
Ector
Pam Gray
Gattiland Burnet
Stanley
Vaney
Suarez
D Hall
Brumelle
Rosson
Brooks/Revell
Nimitz GT
Eskew
Sorum
Woolley
Robles
Crockett GT
Huff
Page
ENI
Cavazos
National School Nurse
Refugee Chechen children seek normalcy in makeshift Russian camp schools
In Sleptsovskaya near the Chechen border a Sputnik camp tent hosts a grammar class for refugee children. They wear coats in freezing January while planes fly overhead. UNHCR notes 30 to 40 percent of 240,000 Chechen refugees are children.
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Sleptsovskaya
Russia
Chechnya
Samara Umarova
Sputnik
U.N. High Commissioner For
Interior Ministry
Grozny
UT teachers shortage study eyed by Austin program
UT Austin plans a program to recruit top math and science students, paying some tuition in exchange for teaching in Texas. Don Allen of UTPB notes local shortages persist despite similar output, with many graduates leaving after a few years. Roy Hurst says area teachers largely come from local universities. The article contrasts Austin and Permian Basin efforts amid rising vacancies.
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Texas
University of Texas
Permian Basin
Don Allen
UTPB
Allen
University of Texas At Austin
University
Austin University
Roy Hurst
Austin
Hurst
Clay Gamble
Dorian Sloan
University of Texas of the
Rumors claim Texas black colleges near closure
An erroneous e mail spreading since August claims 14 historically black institutions including seven in Texas will close for lack of funds. Texas colleges named include Paul Quinn, Texas College, Southwestern Christian, Wiley, and Texas Southern University. Officials say the claims are false and hinder recruitment as calls flood in from worried students and parents.
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Southwestern Christian College
Terrell
Fort Worth Star- Telegram
George W Bush
Bush
Mike Jones
Lamore Carter
Texas College
Tyler
The Master’s Plan Story of Two Brothers and a Trap
Two impoverished brothers seek a lucky break with a rich farmer who sets a strict temper test. The elder endures endless toil and anger finally erupts. The younger borrows the same wager, but uses a slow, steady plan to outlast the schedule and earn the money.
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Ecisd Family Education Center
Austin Stin
Walker
Blackshear
Star Assembly
Blanton Anton
Blanton
Burleson Elementary
CIT
P.m
Mark Sterkel
Cials
Amy Friedman
Jillian Gillilan O
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