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JAMIE STENGLE, Associated Press
WILL WEISSERT, Associated Press
DALLAS (AP) —
About 90 percent of districts and 85 percent of schools in Texas met the state's minimum education standards, education officials announced Friday as they continue overhauling an accountability system that will eventually hand out letter grades.
Because the Texas Education Agency has been tinkering with the system to reduce an emphasis on standardized test scores and calculate other factors, these latest ratings aren't directly comparable to the ones released last year. Meanwhile, that so many districts and schools statewide met the minimum standard was no accident since many facets of the new ratings were designed to ensure failure rates of no more than 5 percent.
ALICIA A. CALDWELL, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) —
The government said Monday it will soon close three emergency shelters it established at U.S. military bases to temporarily house children caught crossing the Mexican border alone. It said fewer children were being caught and other shelters will be adequate.
A shelter in Oklahoma at Fort Sill is expected to close as early as Friday, the Health and Human Services Department said. Shelters in Texas at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland and in California at Naval Base Ventura County-Port Hueneme will wrap up operations in the next two to eight weeks, agency spokesman Kenneth Wolfe said. About 7,700 children had been housed at the three military bases since shelters there opened in May and early June. They stayed an average of 35 days.
JON KRAWCZYNSKI, AP Basketball Writer
The San Antonio Spurs have signed point guard Tony Parker to a multi-year contract extension.
The Spurs made the announcement on Friday. Terms of the deal were not immediately available.
Parker averaged 16.7 points and 5.7 assists in 29 minutes per game last season to help the Spurs to the franchise's fifth NBA title.
Parker has spent all 13 seasons of his career in San Antonio and was due to make $12.5 million next season in the final year of his existing contract. But the Spurs made sure he will stick around longer than that, locking up the 32-year-old Parker, who is one of the elite point guards in the league.