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Odessa American

Location

Odessa, Texas, United States of America

Date

Oct 15, 2008

Page

4

ECISD faces AYP shortfalls district wide

ECISD reports multiple schools miss Adequate Yearly Progress under No Child Left Behind. Odessa High Permian Career Center Bonham Bowie Crockett Hood Nimitz Ector and Burnet Elementary show declines in reading and math performance and participation. Special education scores drop sharply, with graduation rates also down. final results due December.

Panetial Education Wills ECISD Hector Mendez Burnet Mendez OHS Permian Ector Tues Odessa High Nee Career Center Bonham Bowie Crockett Hood Nimitz Burnet Elementary Ector County Alternative Education Center Carver Early Education Lamar Early Education NCLB Ermian Ramage Corpus

Firefighters battle large Southern California wildfires

Firefighters fought a trio of major blazes in Southern California as Santa Ana winds fanned flames across 34 square miles. In Porter Ranch and Granada Hills, 62 structures and 15 homes were destroyed, with one man killed and a motorist dying in a crash. Helicopters dumped water while ground crews contained hotspots. another wildfire in the San Fernando Valley was 70 percent contained enabling some evacuations to return home.

Los Angeles Santa Ana California San Fernando Valley Porter Ranch Granada Hills Ventura County Simi Valley Ron Haralson

NASA to repair Hubble telescope today

NASA engineers will attempt a remote control repair to wake sleeping computer parts aboard the Hubble Space Telescope. A backup data system will be activated to reroute science data, with a projected recovery of images by Friday and a return to planned upgrades next year.

NASA Washington Hubble Earth Art Whipple Hubble Systems Management Office Goddard Space Flight Center Maryland

Perry ends conservatorship of Texas Youth Commission

Gov. Rick Perry removed the Texas Youth Commission from conservatorship and named Cherie Townsend executive commissioner. Townsend, with three decades of juvenile justice experience, previously led Nevada and Arizona juvenile court services. A new law shifts governance from a board to an executive commissioner with an advisory board.

Austin Rick. Perry Texas Youth Commission Cherie Townsend Townsend Texas Arizona Nevada Clark County Las Vegas Superior Court of Arizona Maricopa County Youth Commission

Anonymous donor leaves 32 cats at eastern Alabama clinics

In Op Arkansas Opelik a Alabama five eastern clinics received 32 cats in containers with notes from a dying donor signed Miss R begging veterinary staff to place the pets in new homes. Each crate carried a name age and medical summary and a warning not to kill the animals.

Opelika Ala Alabama Kim Bond

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