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Treatment by vets at the Texas State 4-H Horse Show ranged from a serious colic case that ended with putting the horse down to a Thursday with no activity.
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Accountability ratings by district
Abilene Reporter-News Stories @ July 30, 2010 # Comments Off
Three times as many Big Country school districts earned the state’s highest academic rating this year, an improvement trend realized throughout Texas largely as a result of a controversial measure that allows students to be credited even if they didn’t pass.
The Big Country also followed the statewide trend of having fewer school districts at the bottom.
The Abilene Independent School District is the only Unacceptable district in the Big Country, which had four Unacceptable districts last year. Abilene ISD is one of 30 districts out of 2,624 in Texas to receive an Academically Unacceptable rating in 2009-2010. Last year, the state had 87 Unacceptable districts.
Emily A. Peters @ July 30, 2010 # Comments Off
Abilene ISD TAKS passing rates for all grades
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The Texas Education Agency has rated the Novice Independent School District Academically Acceptable for the first time in three years.
“It was time,” said Novice ISD Superintendent Dale Freeman. “We’re pretty excited. We feel like those hard times are behind us. Everyone knew what was on the line.”
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DALLAS — The Frisco soldier and his family who lost their home to foreclosure while he was serving in Iraq will get the house back.
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Texas Education Agency spokeswoman DeEtta Culbertson said the TAKS regulations violated by former Albany Junior/Senior High teacher Lisa Palmore are clearly defined.
On a yearly basis “every test administrator signs a confidentiality oath,” after participating in TAKS security training sessions or viewing online modules, Culbertson said.
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The oil giant responsible for the Macondo oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has sold its assets in the Permian Basin as part of a $7 billion deal with a Texas independent, a move hailed by West Texas oilmen.
Jared Fields @ July 30, 2010 # Comments Off
An Abilene woman pleaded no contest Friday to a charge of first-degree injury to a child instead of going to trial scheduled for Monday.
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Two Abilene men arrested in December with more than $100,000 worth of stolen property pleaded guilty to theft charges Friday.