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Austin American-Statesman Metro State Wednesday, June 20, 2001 B3 New test name for Texas students to learn: TAKS Trekkies, rejoice: UPN coming back to Time Warner we have a history of changing the name," said agency spokeswoman Adrienne Sobolak. "A new curriculum was requested by the Legislature, and we have a new test to reflect the new information." TAKS will cover the same disciplines that TAAS tested, but students will take the test at different grade levels: reading and math skills from the third through the 11th grades; writing in grades 4, 7, 10 and 11; science in grades 5, 10 and 11; and social studies in grades 8, 10 and 11. High school students must pass the exit-level tests in all five categories to graduate, starting with the high school class of 2005. i The state's testing program, which is better known by its acronyms than its full names, has gone through several incarnations since it began 21 years ago. Other tests have included the Texas Assessment of Basic Skills and the Texas Educational Assessment of Minimum Skills.

By Ushma Patel American-Statesman Staff Pareuts, teachers and students will have to learn yet another acronym for a new test starting in the 2002-03 school year. State education officials this week settled on "Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills," or TAKS, as the name of the test that replaces the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills, commonly known as the TAAS. In 1999, the Legislature mandated that the Texas Education Agency adjust its assessment tests to match new standards, which include the addition of science and social studies for some grades and more geometry and algebra in the math portion of the test. While the agency was settling on a new name, legislators and education officials had referred to the new test affectionately as TAAS II. "Every time we change a test, By Diane Holloway American-Statesman Television Writer "Star Trek" fans missed the entire last season of "Voyager," but they won't have to miss "Enterprise," the new Trek series coming this fall.

Nor will "Buffy" fans have to miss their favorite vampire slayer come September. After being without a UPN station since October, Central Texans will have the network back on Time Warner Cable, effective Aug. 2. That's when the cable company starts carrying KBEJ Channel 2, the UPN station in Fredericksburg. The addition is part of a channel shake-up that will be announced next week.

KBEJ has not yet received a channel number. An agreement was signed late Monday between the license holders of KBEJ and Time Warner after lengthy negotiations that also involved Belo which has a license management agreement with KBEJ. "We've been working to make this possible," Time Warner spokeswoman Lidia Agraz said. "We know our customers value the programming, and we wanted to be as responsive as possible." But Agraz declined to say why it took Time Warner almost a year to respond. The disappearance of UPN came about in October, when the network decided to align itself with San Antonio, a larger TV market than Austin.

Because the Fredericksburg station is technically part of the San Antonio TV market and must be carried on that city's cable system, Austin's Time Warner did not have to carry it and chose not to. "Time Warner told us we had to give up must-carry in Austin if we had must-carry in San Antonio," said Dennis Williamson, vice president of the Belo TV Group. "It was a channel capacity issue for them." Before October, UPN was affiliated with Austin's KVC Channel 13, a station owned by Fox's KTBC Channel 7 and carried at that time on Austin cable. When UPN moved to KBEJ, angry viewers blamed KVC and called the station to complain. Time Warner initially blamed KVC, even though KVC had nothing to do with UPN's decision, and then blamed UPN.

In turn, UPN blamed Time Warner, and viewers were caught in the middle. Ultimately, the return of UPN came about because of pressure After evidence of sex abuse, items from girl's home seized Timothy White1997 Warner Bros. Fans of 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer's' Sarah Michelle Gellar won't have to miss out on new episodes of the show come September. As of Aug. 2, UPN will return to the Austin cable lineup.

from the public, a long-awaited re- company a share of the ad revenue, transmission agreement between KBEJ's owners and Time Warner, you may contact Diane Holloway at and a contract between Time dhollowaystatesman.com or 445-Warner and Belo to give the cable 3608. Capital Metro operations director to leave post the master bedroom. They also took computer disks and a vacuum attachment from under the bed. Other items taken from the home include the book "101 Activities for Kids in Tight as well as unlabeled videotapes, family photos, a sledgehammer, notebooks, a book about sexual massage, dog vitamins and a plastic pipe. i Hutchins Police Chief Gregory Griffin said the department sought the search warrant after receiving credible allegations of sexual abuse.

i Dr. Donna Persaud of Children's Medical Center in Dallas found injuries to the child's genital area. According to an affidavit, Persaud told police the injuries could have occurred from sexual intercourse or by a blunt or sharp object. Persaud also told police that the girl had been malnourished for years. Associated Press DALLAS A day after a medical specialist's report revealed that an 8-year-old girl imprisoned in a closet had been sexually abused, Hutchins police Tuesday seized wooden sticks, pornographic playing cards, a child's diary and other items as evidence from the family's mobile home.

Authorities said the girl, whose name is being withheld from publication, was imprisoned in a urine- and feces-contaminated closet in the master bedroom for at least four months in the home in Hutchins, south of Dallas. The girl's mother and stepfather were arrested last week on charges of injury to a child, a felony that carries a prison term from five to 99 years. An inventory released Tuesday showed that police confiscated carpeting, a small mattress and sheet, buckets and jars, clothing hangers and the closet door from Gerald Robichaux: Moving to Louisiana to be general manager of West-side Transit Authority. permanent general manager, returned to his position as chief of operations when General Manager Karen Rae was hired in late 1998. He also led Capital Metro through four contract negotiations with unions representing the agency's employees and developed a relationship of trust with union members.

Robichaux, who did not return a phone call Tuesday, will leave Capital Metro on June 29. The agency will conduct a national search to hire his replacement, Rae said. You may contact Kelly Daniel at kdanielstatesman.com or 445-3618. of Star Tran the agency's operations division. He joined Capital Metro in 1996 as director of transportation and has also served as chief operations officer.

From late 1997 until late 1998, Robichaux served as interim general manager while Capital Metro coped with having its board completely removed by the 1997 Texas Legislature and its general manager fired by a new board. An FBI investigation of Capital Metro's spending practices was under way at the same time; that investigation recently yielded first criminal conviction. Robichaux, called a blessing by the new board as it searched for a By Kelly Daniel American-Statesman Staff The man who led Capital Metro as it struggled through some of its darkest days is heading home. Gerald Robichaux, 55, is leaving the transit agency after five years to return to his hometown of New Orleans, where he worked for 30 years in the transit industry before moving to Austin. He'll become general manager of Westside Transit Authority in Gretna, a paddlewheel's turn across the Mississippi River from New Orleans.

The agency has 35 to 40 vehicles and operates park-and-ride shuttles into New Orleans. Robichaux's children and grandchildren live in New Orleans, and he said being near his family was a prime reason for his decision to leave Austin. Robichaux is Capital Metro's director of operations and president if i) Get It Today. $299 52.675 Palm Vx Handheld 8MB RAM Dimensions: 3.1"(W) 4.5"(H) 0.4"(D) Weight: 4.0 oz. CDWG 183741 Government II shipped same day.

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