Neighborhood School Notebook Highlights Weekly Activities
ECISD parents receive a weekly digest of school events across campuses. Activities include tutorials by grade, parent meetings, field trips, book fairs, immunization notices, Just Say No programs, PTA events, and fall festivals across Fannin Lamar Austin Blackshear Burnet Cameron Richardson Cavazos and other campuses with dates and times for volunteers staff and students.
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Family Education Center
FEC
Fannin Early Education Center
Lamar Early Education Center
Petroleum Museum
JSN
ENI
Madd
Blackshear
Pal-Floyd Gwinn Park
10Th St. Burnet Elementary
M&m
Permian High School
PTA
Cronenworth
Cameron
Tercero
Albanian teens face deportation after Morriston high policy
Seven Albanian youths living in Morriston, Arkansas, may be sent back to Albania after the school board limited international students to six, despite sponsors’ efforts to place them in another school. The teens, 16 to 18, reside at the Southern Christian Home and are described as academically advanced with indefinite visas tied to school enrollment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morriston, Ark
America
Albania
Larry Williams
Southern Christian Home
Arkansas
South Conway County
Morriston High School
Raymond Chambers
Chambers
Williams
United States
Wayne Speer
Church of Christ
Tirana
Armando Margjeka
Shelgim Sheigizi
Ma Jun Bo
Qian Chow
Sitr Skendaj
Alba Brace
Arta Collaku
Alda Tuci
Elena Viadi
Andi Mar
Morrilton
Ark
China
Morrilton High School
ECISD pushes new emphasis on reading across district
Odessa American notes ECISD teachers are prioritizing reading under a five year plan tied to a governor led initiative. Superintendent Stokes will receive campus reading level reports in November and December. Reading departments report many students reading below grade level and daily reading time is being increased district wide.
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Ector County Independent School
Linda Lentz
ECISD
Vernon Stokes
Pam Gray
Ecisd Board of
Elaine Stephens
Bonham Junior High School
Stephens
Girls close education's gender gap in many regions
A Population Action International report finds girls now outnumber boys in secondary schools in 18 countries, mainly in Latin America. Yet 51 countries still show gender gaps with 75 million fewer girls than boys enrolled, despite UN World Bank and NGO efforts to reach universal primary education by 2015.
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Washington
Middle East
sub-Saharan Africa
Latin America
Population Action International
United Nations
World Bank
Malawi
Egypt
Pakistan
Baluchistan
The Chameleon and the Sea God Adaptation
A chameleon is sent as messenger to Olokun, sea god, by a sky claiming superiority. On arrival the chameleon astonishes Olokun by wearing robes matching the sea god’s own finery, prompting the sea lord to respond with equal splendor.
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Earth
Olokun
Chameleon
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D-5
Smith
D.A.R.E
Sammy Bertoza
Villegas
Gallegos
Richardson
Ledesma
Snell
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Perez
COGAT
Clark
Tindell
Squiers
Evaro
Tyra
Donaldson
Cavazos
Compassion
Girl Scout Troop No. 99
Gov. Bush
By Susan Serrano
Lee
Mark Sterkel
Odessa
Gina Gonzales
Amy Friedman
Jillian Gilliland
Nce
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