The Galveston Daily News from Galveston, Texas • Page 97

"BicentennialEdition" Sunday Morning, February 29. 1976 been a great year, THINK BALL HIGH SCHOOL GROWS GISD Improvements Seen he a 1 Ion 1 n- dcpendent School District this past year saw the completion of its last major building program, financed from the 1973 bond issue, and the groundwork for the next. The 1973 issue provided for air conditioning of all schools not then air conditioned, improved lighting for both Ball High School's south campus and Central Middle School, and the addition of a media center (library) and renovation of the cafeteria and book store at. the Ball south campus. The school board is now making plans for completing the modernization of the elementary schools.

Tentative plans are for a spring bond issue to finance new Island and central city elementary schools and for expanding Elementary School. Renovation of Austin Middle School is starting, using surplus funds from the last tax year. Building needs and desegregation plans have been major topics this past year for the GISD staff, headed by Supt. Frank Vollert, and the school board, headed by Dr. Ernest Barratl.

The two topics have intertwined as decisions were approached in each area. Vollert was asked last summer to prepare a plan integrating what he considered the best of citizen and professional study of building and integration problems. Vollert and the staff recommended n- solidating the eighth grade at Central Middle School and adjusting elementary school balance. In a second report the elementary recommendation was detailed as adjusting school zones, closing Goliad Elementary School, expanding Burnett and pairing students between Carver an I s1 a elementary schools. Public objection centered on the pairing and came primarily from the Island zone.

The school board elected to go ahead with the eighth grade consolidation at Central next term, but is holding off on the elementary reorganization. The Central eighth grade campus solves one major desegregation problem for the district, that being federal Department of Health, Education and Welfare dissatisfaction with the virtually all-black enrollment at the school. HEW has been displeased also with "de facto" segregation in Goliad and Carver elementary schools. Although the district has gone into federal court to seek relief from certain HEW desegregation regulations, the integration issue remains a point of controversy within the district. Factions within the community have called for complete integration, facilitated by busing as in the pairing plan, to gel the matter settled.

Others contend the community must await changes in housing patterns to let the issue settle itself. Opposition to student busing is a key to much opposition to more dramatic advances in racial balancing within individual schools. The Galveston district was blessed with an operating fund surplus of some $2 3 million at the close of the 1974-75 term in August. The big surplus in the budget of some SI5 million has been called a "windfall," due largely to unexpected increases in mineral values, and is said to be a one-time event because of changes in state financing unfavorable to Galveston. The board for the most part has attempted to retain as much of the surplus as possible for use in building improvements.

The Austin Middle Scriool work is the first ma'jor project using those funds. A survey of 2,500 U.S. homes, conducted by R. H. Bruskin Associates of New Brunswick, N.J., a marketing research firm, shows that 73 per cent of the households have one or more live plants.

Agriquotes Thi' aim of the farmers in this country, if they can be called fanners, is not to make the most they can from the 1'ind, which is. or has been but the most of the l.ilmur. which is dear; the consequence of which has been much ground has been scratched over and none cultivated or improved as it ought to have been. Whereas a farmer in Kngland. where land is dear and labour cheap, finds it to his interest to improve and cultivate highly that he may reap large crops from a small quantity of ground George Washington.

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