Pecos to adopt quarter plan for next school year
The Pecos Barstow Independent School District will implement a Texas quarter system in 1973 74 under a 1971 law. Under the plan Central Education Agency will craft curriculums while total school days and teacher workdays stay similar. Four quarters may be used, but fourth quarter finance is local. most Pecos schools plan three quarters with summer session.
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Pecos-Barstow Independent
C. W. Wright
Board of Education
Wright
Texas
Central Education Agency
Pecos-Barstow
Vocational education gains steam in high schools
A Pecos High School plan adds extensive vocational offices and classrooms on campus as completion nears. The program expands industrial arts and homemaking facilities and notes students already build a house, work in auto shops, and compete in regional contests while critics warn of aggressive for-profit schools and urge FTC Bureau checks.
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Pecos High School
Building Trades
West Pecos
Barstow
Jerry Sanchez
Dental
Instructors younger better educated today than a decade ago
National surveys show teachers are younger and better educated but less experienced than in 1961 62 with higher salaries not fully keeping up with living costs. Average age fell from 40.9 to 35, and total experience dropped from 11 to 8 years while those with less than a bachelor’s degree declined from 14.6 to 2.9 percent. Salaries rose about 6 percent annually, with 1971 72 average around 10146. Further figures cover total teachers 2,089,623 in 1971 72, men 33.1 percent, and related salary comparisons.
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National Education Association
Immunization requirements for Pecos district students
Pecos district schools require student immunization records for enrollment. First graders must present a birth certificate. Texas law mandates three diphtheria tetanus shots, three polio doses, smallpox within ten years, measles and rubella for under 12, and preschoolers must have pertussis vaccine. Officials cite Ann Hicks, South Pecos Elementary nurse.
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Pecos
Texas
Ann Hicks
South Pecos
Enrollment forecast for Pecos Barstow schools 1972 73
Pecos Barstow Consolidated Independent School District projects enrollment for 1972 73 totaling about 4300 students. Pecos High School expected over 1000, East Pecos Junior High about 325, Pecos Junior High over 400, Bessie Haynes around 700, North Pecos 275, South Pecos about 875, Pecos Elementary 425, Barstow around 125, Earl Bell about 150, Carver Resource Center near 30.
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Pecos- Barstow Consolidated Independent School District
Pecos
East Pecos
Bessie Haynes
North Pecos
South Pecos
Barstow
Earl Bell
Child Star Roman Ska mene Faces Talent Rejections
Prague reports reveal Roman Ska mene, famed for his titular turn in The Prince and the Pauper at age 13, receives up to 300 fan letters daily, with the postman delivering none. Despite praise from directors as a God given talent, he has been rejected by drama academies three times for lacking talent.
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Roman Skamene
Mark Twain
Prince and
the Pauper
Roman
Drama
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