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BEST AVAILABLE COPY ITU ET3 WPS I JONBENET CASE DNA: NOT A MATCH rMliv GORILLA FOUND IN REID PARK TucsonRegion Arizona football coach announces personnel decisions for first game Sports Page A2 50 One dollar in Mexico SERVING TUCSON SINCE 1877 TUESDAY, AUGUST 29, 2006 650 schools flunk progress test On StarNet See how area schools rate in a f-4 searchable database of standardized testing at azstarnet.comeducatlon Century plans to sell its 4 Tucson theaters AZ education chief: Federal rule changes made number jump By Howard Fischer CAPITOL MEDIA SERVICES PHOENIX Students in more than a third of Arizona schools are not sufficiently advancing their learning, at least according to federal law. About 650 schools out of the 1,881 public and charter schools in the state did not make "adequate yearly progress" last school year as required under the federal No Child Left Behind act, according to figures released Thursday by the state Department of Education. At the very least, the findings trigger requirements for schools to come up with improvement plans. But for 66 schools, they mean making actual changes in staff or curriculum with 14 of these schools possibly having to get rid of their entire faculty. By contrast, only 237 schools were classified last year as not making required progress.

same number of schools making adequately yearly progress." One change, he said, is the addition of grades four, six and seven to the testing program which, until now, only covered grades three, five and eight. Home explained that if students in any grade in a school do not pass any one of the tests, then the entire school fails. More grades, he said, provide more opportunities to fail. In this case, about 150 additional schools are being listed as out of compliance. SEE SCHOOLS A3 The list of affected schools will be released later this week.

But state School Superintendent Tom Home said the numbers are misleading because the U.S. Department of Education has changed the rules. "Our data show that the students are learning more and have higher test scores," Home said. "If the federal government had kept the rules the same, we would have had approximately the By Levi J. Long ARIZONA DAILY STAR Tucson's cinema scene is changing, as the city's biggest theater chain is being sold amid planned openings of new multiplexes by other companies in the next year.

Century Theatres Inc. announced the sale of 78 theaters around the country, including four in Tucson, to Cinemark USA based crash on I-IO injures drivers in Piano, Texas. The Century Theatre acquisition, dependent on antitrust approval from the U.S. Department of Justice, could be finalized in On StarNet Find more entertainment news at azstarnet.com entertainment 13 stx i 0 r' next to four months, said Terrell Falk, vice president of marketing and communications for Cinemark USA. "The deal is still tentative," she said.

"We're not sure when the closing will be, but we anticipate few changes once the decision is made." Considered the largest operator of movie theaters in the city, Century has locations that include El Con and Park Place malls. Century, based in San Rafael, also operates drive-in theaters in Glendale and Scotts-dale, and has locations in 12 states, including California, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah, according to its Web site. A name change to Cinemark is not expected immediately at those Century theaters, Falk said. Signs outside the theaters SEE THEATERS A3 AX ARAIZA ARIZONA DAILY STAR Volunteer firefighters Paul Johnsen and Ian Battles of Mescal attack a fire on Interstate 10 near the J-Six exit east of Benson. A Cochise County grader, left, driven by Larry Thompson, was hit from behind Monday by UPS driver Joseph Covarrubias in the slow lane, said Department of Public Safety Officer J.C.

Drummond. Each driver had a broken leg, arid they were transported by helicopter. Traffic was tied up for five miles, delaying eastbound traffic for several hours, Drummond said. See story, Page B5. "What bothers me the most is how clever the enemy is.

They are actively manipulating the media in this country. Donald Rumsfeld High blood pressure linked to long hours at work, survey finds Terrorist maiupulation of media cause for concern, Rumsfeld says On StarNet Sign up for a health newsletter and get the latest information from health experts delivered to your e-mail at azstarnet.comhealth BLOOMBERG NEWS Working 10 hours more than a 40-hour week may increase a person's chance of having high blood pressure by 17 percent, compared with a shorter workweek, a California study suggests. The risk increased to 29 percent for people who worked 51 hours or more a week, compared with employees with a workweek of 11 to 39 hours, according to a study released today that will appear in the September edition of the journal Hypertension. There are several reasons why working longer may increase the odds of hypertension, the researchers said: Working overtime may lead to unhealthy eating, less exercise, more stress and less sleep. "One implication for this study is the need to increase SEE PRESSURE A3 Ji 2.

Iff of the war in Iraq is an impediment to performing his job. He said it was not and he knows from history that wars are normally unpopular with many Americans. "I expect that," he said. "I understand that." "What bothers me the most is how clever the enemy is," he said. Islamic extremist groups are trying to undermine West-em support for the war on terror, he said.

"They are actively manipulating the media in this country" by, for example, falsely blaming SEE RUMSFELD A3 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FALLON NAVAL AIR STATION, Nev. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Monday that he is deeply troubled by the success of terrorist groups in "manipulating the media" to influence Westerners. "That's the thing that keeps me up at night," he said during a question-and-answer session with about 200 naval aviators and other Navy personnel at this flight training base for Navy and Marine pilots. Rumsfeld was asked whether the criticism he draws as Pentagon chief and a leading advocate 2xi COMING SUNDAY I Tired of trying to balance increasing hours and a home life? You're not the only RICH PEORONCELLI THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld chats with noncommissioned officers during his Fallon, Naval Air Station visit.

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