ECISD third graders boost reading TAKS pass rate
ECISD reported 1,390 of 1,533 English TAKS third graders passed the reading section on the first try, a 90.67 percent pass rate, up 1.2 points from last year. Spanish test pass was 77.86 percent with 102 of 131. MISD trailed in English but ECISD outscored MISD on the Spanish test. Two more attempts remain for those who failed, with intensive remediation planned at each campus.
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ECISD
Sue Ferguson
Midland Independent School District
Linda Jolly
Jolly
Ferguson
Summer teen job outlook brightens in Odessa reports official
Willlie Taylor of the Permian Basin Workforce Development Board says the summer job market in Odessa looks strong with about 7,800 students seeking work last year and a new Telvista call center expected to hire 500 within two years. Teens 17 have best chances, while ages 14 to 16 face limits. The Odessa Midland area unemployment was 5.6 percent in January.
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Odessa
Willie Taylor
Permian Basin
Taylor
Odessa-Midland
Texas Workforce Commission
Telvista
Southwestern Bell
County adjusts Jacks contract with reduced rent
Ector County commissioners approved a new lease for the Jackalopes cutting rent to 80,520 for a 30 game home schedule and giving the team most parking proceeds. If playoffs occur next year the Jacks pay 2,000 per playoff game after the 30 games, with average per game cost about 2,684 for 2004 05. Parking collection shifts to the Jacks, who will pay the county 45,000 over four years, starting with 11,250 annually.
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Ector County Commissioners
Jackalopes
Jacks
David Austin
Austin
County General Fund
Odessa father rescued as two children die in West Odessa fire
The bodies of John and Debra Gentry were released Monday as their father Ernest Gentry recovered from second degree burns over 20 percent of his body at University Medical Center in Lubbock. Fire crews found the mobile home at 908 N Harolds Ave engulfed at 7:21 a.m. Sunday. Gentry had awakened by the blaze and attempted to reach his children before flames forced him outside. Autopsy results were pending and investigators probed the fire’s cause.
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University Medical Center
Lubbock
Billy Son
Odessa
Ernest
Ernie” Gentry
John
Debra
N. Harolds Ave
West Odessa
Gentry
Terry
Patsy Cox
Dunn St
Joseph
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Sarah Shellenberger
Jessica Chorney-Wilson
Lisa Platner
Mandi Osborn
Outlook
Odessan
Gary Duesler
Billy Terry
Joseph Cox
Dren
Ernie’ Gentry
Cox
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