Texas Graduation Rates Lag Nationally Amid Disputed District Scores
Texas ranks last among states in high school graduation rates, 57 percent in 1994, per The Report Card on American Education 1995. Ector County ISD reports higher rates, with Hector Mendez noting 93 percent in 1994 and prior years in the 90s, while state data lag behind. Programs like School-Within-A-School at Odessa and Permian aim to raise completion, as TEA notes dropout definitions and two-year reporting delays.
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Ector County Independent
American Legislative Council
Texas Public Policy Foundation
San Antonio
Hector Mendez
Mendez
Gram
Odessa
Permian
Texas Education Agency
Democrats push families first in five city political rollout
Congressional Democrats staged a five city promotion of their election year package aimed at helping the middle class with tax breaks health education and crime proposals. House Democratic leader Richard Gephardt said Democrats seek another chance to lead while Republicans dismissed the plan as a political manifesto.
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Washington
Houston
Clinton
House
Rep
Richard Gephardt
Congress
Sacramento
Calif
Des Moines
Iowa
Dearborn
Mich
America
Bill Paxon
R-N.y
Republican Campaign Committee
Senate
Tom Daschle
South Dakota
Gephardt
Caa
Gramm urges doubling science funding to catch up
Senator Phil Gramm tours the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and urges doubling science spending to 4 cents per tax dollar from 2. He cites 1965 as a peak and warns that current 1.9 percent share of the 1997 budget risks ceding world leadership. Funds would come from cuts elsewhere. specifics not given.
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Dallas
United States
Germany
Japan
Phil Gramm
Gramm
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Health
NASA
National Science
The Golden Fish and Manu the Hermit Prince
An ancient tale about Manu, a former king who becomes a hermit and encounters a miraculous golden fish begging for rescue. The fish grows enormous, gleaming with gold as Manu shelters it in progressively larger jars. The story follows Manu’s mercy and the fish’s plea for help through a cycle of growth and need.
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Manu
Nuclear fallout shelters adapt after Cold War era
Odessa and cities nationwide repurposed public fallout shelters once built for nuclear war. Many blue and yellow designated sites like banks churches and schools now serve as storm shelters storage or emergency spaces as the Cold War ends and usage shifts.
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Odessa
First Baptist Church
NationsBank
Texas Commerce Bank
Pat MacAllister
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