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Longview News-Journal, Sunday, September 17, 2006 5E www.news-journal.com Driving class Quality the end of the last school year. None met that deadline, so each must try again this year. About 90 percent of teachers are highly qualified, states say, although numbers vary widely across the states. Meanwhile, about half the states are phasing out their use of a uniform state standard to rate teachers, Colby said. Packer said that trend was driven in part by urging from the department, and that the latest letter may encourage states to keep the option.

prove they know their subjects. "I urge you to re-examine your HOUSSE procedures to ensure that this is not the case in your state," she wrote to state school chiefs. "Our students and parents deserve no less." The education law says teachers are highly qualified when they have a bachelor's degree, a state license and proven competency in every subject they teach. States were supposed to have a highly qualified teacher in every core academic class by the department for years has issued inconsistent guidance on what states can do. "I think they've created part of the problem, just a real level of confusion," he said.

Most states have used the option in question called the "high objective uniform state standard of evaluation," or HOUSSE. It was meant to offer flexibility to veteran teachers. In a letter to states, Spellings admonishes some for allowing teachers to be deemed highly qualified without making them real trucks getting driving experience. The emphasis is on safety during training and Leshe said he teaches applicants to watch their mirrors and speed. "I don't believe in the word They can be avoided," he said.

David Harvey, a July graduate, said the class taught him what he needed to learn about driving trucks. Harvey said he now has a position with U.S. Express in Dallas and will receive on the job training for three weeks. "I enjoyed the class and I enjoy what I am doing now," he said. PICK IT UP TODAY! LONGVIEW We (Irker.

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Lobbyist Joel Packer said your fellow students and how to live in a community." Some students agree. "It's a crash course in conflict resolution," says Rcnita Young, a 20-year-old senior at DePaul who started off in a cramped donn and only recently moved to Loft-Right. She feels she's earned the perk. That said, many residents in her building are freshmen and sophomores which Bronstein, the developer, takes as a sign of increasing demand. Now he's ready to move on to his next project: a "Club Med for students" at Illinois State University that will have outdoor volleyball and hot tubs, as well as plasma TVs in every unit.

"The cat's out of the bag," he says. "Nobody's going to build a new building with community bathrooms. It just won't happen." Sarah English, director of housing and residential life at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, NX, aLso believes universities have no choice but to upgrade housing. Her school recently added upscale townhouses for students. But even she drew the line when she heard officials at some colleges were replacing standard-issue twin mattresses long a rite of passage in dorm life with full-sized beds.

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On the third, day students are taken out on the road in Posh From Page 6E says Brian Altomare, the 25-year-old president and founder of Madpackers, a Manhattan-based moving company for students. This fall, his company added one-off limousine rides so student customers can arrive at school "like a rock star." The company also plans to offer grocery delivery and cleaning and laundry services something other companies, such as Valet Today and Dor-mAid, already do. At East Coast schools, Dor-mAid charges $60 for a two-hour room clean and about $10 to wash and fold three bags of laundry. Madpackers' rates start at $1289 for an in-state move, with extra charges fof packing services and supplies and the limo trips. Students who take advantage of the perks tend to shrug off comments from college alumni who scoff at the pampering they never had.

"Going to school today and living as a young adul in this world is completely different than when they grew up. What could be looked at as spoiled for them, is not necessarily spoiled for us," says Josh Hoffman, a 19-ycar old sephemorc in New York University's jazz performance program. lie took a Madpackers limousine to school this CBS 19 Prom Page IE Hurley said, adding that tins is an important area to CBS 19. In May, the station held a business-to-business luncheon for Longview Partnership members in which CBS 19 news and management teams members talked to participants' about what they wanted from the station. "Overwhelmingly, they asked for more coverage and for somebody to kind of step up and be their station," Lenortz said.

The three television stations that cover this area are all based in Tyler. During the May meeting, the "stepchild feeling" that those stations focus more on Tyler than Longview was discussed, said Longview Partnership President Kelly Hall. "We would like to do what it takes for them to spend more time in our community. I think that's very important," she stud. Longview has about 80,000 residents compared with Tyler's population of about 90.000, she said.

"There's not that much difference between the two communities. Looking at those demographics, we would like for more news to be broadcast from this area." It's good, she said, when the media pays attention to the community in a positive way, investing money and committing to the communities that depend on them for information. "All the media that's here is important to the partnership because it's how we project ourselves. It's how we tell our stories. It's how we get the facts out, how we promote our events," she said.

Of the three local stat ions, CBS 19 ranked third in news in July, according to Nielsen Media Research, which tracks television viewing habits across the country. While those ratings are part of the equation in the decision to add a focused news segment, it's not the primary reason, Lenortz said. "We're looking for increased ip, but at the same time, we have a responsibility to our viewers to do this, and that's why we went over there in the first place and talked to those our customers love it! our competition, not so much. WEEK OF smmm Spear. Com on ihe Cob, Sliced Peaches, Variety Milk NtW DIANA MONDAY: Chicken Spaghetti, Italian Green Beans.

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We have everything at our hands," he says. "It's just a matter of choosing." Many students say housing amenities, in particular, play a big role when deciding which school to attend. That worries some education watchdogs, who believe the focus on living the good life is driving up the already burdensome cost of college and causing some students to ask for more grants and rack up more debt than they normally would. "Students and school employees are living in increasing luxury while taxpayers are getting soaked," says Neal McCluskey, a policy analyst for the Center for Educational Freedom at the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank. Still others think there's something to be said for basic communal living, especially for underclassmen.

"The traditional college dormitory with two students to a room and a bathroom and common room down the hall is a pretty good way of get ting students out of their rooms and away from their computers," says Tom Kepple, president of Juniata College, a liberal arts school in Huntingdon, Pa. "In this environment, it's pretty hard to avoid getting to know folks," Lenertz said. "We've got e-mails and phone calls from people that just seemed to be hungering for news coverage, and they just felt as though everything centered around Tyler and this part of the viewing area. We took that a step further and went over there and visited them. On the strength of those conversations, we really felt like we needed to step up and deliver." CBS 19 has a news staff of about 30, and has hired a couple of extra people as part of the new effort, Lenertz said.

The station also is putting more resources into the cameras, equipment and vehicles for its Longview studio in the basement of the Longview News-Journal. The station also is building a new set for Longview. "The anchor team will remain the same," Lenertz said. "It's just the content that's going to change." However, he said the anchors might sometimes come to Long-view to lead the broadcast. Hurley said the show also will sometimes go live to Longview Bureau Chief Tyler Wing at the anchor desk in Longview.

The new set also will provide the opportunity to bring more guests in live in Longview, he said. Between news and sales, CBS 19 has five people who are based in Hurley said the station also is planning to dispatch another crew from Tyler to this area each day, for a of three crews working in this area. Lenertz and Hurley said the station has had a positive response to the addition from people and businesses in this trva. "We think it will increase our viewership, and we already know it will increase our advertising business because it's selling very well." Hurley said. "But with us, we have (a Federal Communications Commission) license to serve our community.

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