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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Opelika
Ala
Alabama
Kim Bond
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