Fort Worth Star-Telegram from Fort Worth, Texas • 13

Wednesday August 13 1997 Star-Telegram Section A Page la Schools Page IA t-- cl 1 1 Ce'-i A '0 111 i i -1 iJ ii 64 -ft i -71 0 0 I I1 t-74 l7e81 l'' A' 4' i1-142 I It 16 4 1 It i 1 i4 r'! ty r- A Id' '-'4 i A I "'-4- 1 o'''' 4 L----- 14 it 5 i 1 l'i i I A (i I 14S It 1 irl i I 4 140 '4o 40' 'b 'Aar -'4 i i i 1 l'' 44 1 ro1' It 1 41' Walking back to her office she talks to a mother whd was told to enroll her daughter at Daggett but the student doesn't live in the school's attendance area After a week of trying to enroll her daughter in at least two other middle schools the mother is tired but determined to see that her child goes to school "They are giving you the runaround" Gonzalez tells the parent Gonzalez can't solve the problem but she can and does tell the woman what she needs to do and whom she needs to see to get the girl back in school Gonzalez leaves her office with the shelves of family pictures teacher knickknacks and binders full of district policies and her own intmctional strategies to walk the hallways again There she meets with a vice principal and the campus security officer to find out more about a youth who came to school and then ran off Apparently the student could not face his third year of eighth grade and left campus Gonzalez gets the particulars in between taking care of administrative duties such as meeting with an instructional specialist to revise the successful teaching plan she developed at Worth Heights She wants to use it at Daggett But the runaway remains in her thoughts "We really need to look into him because there are schools set up to help him" Gonzalez tells a visitor She doesn't know the student but she is not willing to let him continue to slip through the cracks Apparently the youth is virtu ally a dropout and may have a problem with drugs Vice Principal Eric Lockett tells Gonzalez He says the youth came to school only two days last year Stopping by her office Gonzalez calls the youth's home His brother answers the phone "This is Mrs Gonzalez at Daggett Middle School" she says friendly but firm "I need to talk to your brother so I can make a deal with him Please tell him to come by so we can help him" It's not even 10 am yet Daggett doesn't let out until 3:30 pm and it looks like it is going to be a long day The first day of school can be controlled chaos even more so when a staff is adjusting to a new principal At 4:45 pm Gonzalez is sitting in the new-looking chair that came with the scarred circa1970s desk in her office She has her feet up on its surface and she's thinking about opening day Her opening day The students teachers and most everyone else are long gone so it's just her and the janitorial staff "The second part of the day was smoother and calmer and the bells started working on their own" she says laughing For a while Gonzalez had to flip a switch on the automated timing system that controls the bells to signal the beginning and end of each classperiod Although she has been in education for nearly 30 years the last 11 of them at the helm of Worth Heights she expected different problems when she switched from elementary to middle school "I thought it was going to be a Star-TelegramRom ENNIS 0 D'Anda Thomas in the office of Daggett Middle School in Fort Worth 4 S1 4 1 style to another is never easy But she wouldn't have taken the job if she hadn't wanted a challenge Being a new principal she adds is a hard job "And it gets harder as the days go on because you find out exactly what needs to be done atictl what needs to be changed" Gonzalez says "You have to figuiel out how to do that without causing a lot of anguish and uncertainty among the staff" She has been there before "Once you work with the staff and make them feel like what is best for the team is best for them then you begin to see the results" But that's another problem for another day fired from his job based on an internal affairs investigation that found his actions unjustifiable "That's ridiculous" Hawthorne said while putting the finishing touches on a customer's haircut "They've police just got a license to kill now That's what it means" Soloma Gates who went to school with Joe Calloway said she expected a guilty verdict But she said life must go on and residents and police must keep up recent efforts to rid the neighborhood of drug dealers and other crimes "We are all suffering from that killing" Gates said "The Calloway family is suffering The policeman's family is suffering The community is suffering "But we cannot let that killing stop us from trusting the police because there are good police officers" she said "Together we've just got to go on doing the job We've got to do better" Staff writers Renee Lee and Mede Nix contributed to this report She was pleasantly surprised to find that the attitude of the sixth- seventh- and eighth-graders at Daggett wasn't that different from their peers in elementary school "The kids were very affectionate and friendly" Gonzalez says "I wasn't expecting that I thought they would be standoffish and wouldn't want to talk to me but they weren't" Instead depending on the student they hugged her or traded adult greetings and handshakes "I was smiling almost the whole day" Gonzalez says "I feel so good and I feel I belong here" She acknowledged that the transition from one principal's leadership rules and instructional "You do what you're supposed to do as a police officer within the bounds of the law and you're OK" Read said Only minutes after the verdict was announced Richard Cartel assistant general counsel for the Combined Law Enforcement Associations of Texas handed out press releases stating that the statewide union for officers believed "justice has been done" "This case has been watched not just by people in the Metroplex but also by people all over the state of Texas the United States the world" Carter told reporters outside the courtroom "We've been getting calls from law enforcement officers who were concerned about their future in law enforcement based on this case" At a Sherman Street barbershop near where Calloway was killed the Rev Jimmy Hawthorne Sr questioned how a jury could fmd Hubbard innocent after he was From UN Televisto Market (and national rank) Fort Worth-Dallas (8) Indianapolis (25) New Haven-Hartford Conn (27) Buffalo (39) Norfolk-Portsmouth Va (40) Austin (63) Decatur III (82) Fort Wayne Ind (103) From Market (and national rank) r71 stvo eiP i4 1 The Hicks Hicks Muse stations in two $18 billion: 1 "I like a really smooth opening rally smooth" she says after spending more than 10 minutes Wtening and advising the mother who wanted to transfer her daughter to Daggett because of prob14ms at another middle school This year Gonzalez replaced longtime Principal Albert Gonza14s who is now at the helm of Prtschal High School She was one of thousands of tqachers staff members and principals who got Fort Worth schools 1 off and running yesterday Administrators reported a smooth start dlstrictwide as more than 60000 dents on the district's traditional nine-month calendar began classes yesterday They joined 17000 more at year-round and Elementary Schools Initiative campuses where classes started in midsummer I It's 8:30 am and Gonzalez is walking the hallways making sure students get help touching blise with teachers youth services and cafeteria workers and greeting parents in English and Spanish One of the tall eighth-graders who tower above the younger students stops her in the hallway and holds out his hand "Do you remember me?" he asks teasing Gonzalez She knows he is one of her former Worth Heights Elementary students and she remembers his family but can't place the name so he tells her Gonzalez figures she will be able to place names with faces by September Trial From Page IA announced "I'm just really happy that we can go home and be a family and be with our son she said "And that he's going to have his daddy there with him" Hubbard was indicted in November in the Oct 7 shooting death of Joe Lee Calloway 52 in the Grand Prairie community of Dalworth Hubbard said Calloway was lunging at fellow officer Barry Fletcher with a 4-inch knife Calloway's death ignited demonstrations in which more than 300 residents protested the shooting which they said was racially motivated Calloway was African-American Hubbard is white The indictment marked the first time in more than 20 years that an area on-duty officer was indicted Hicks From Page 1 A than $1 billion to add 10 more stations to the mix His TV empire is just getting started and includes seven stations in smaller markets Three of those deals are still pending But Hicks said he plans to use UN as a platform for a "buy-and-build strategy" that has succeeded in radio and other industries In a separate transaction that was part of yesterday's deal the firm also paid $1225 million for a Grand Rapids Mich TV station "We're going to build a big company" said Hicks noting that yesterday's deal is the largest ever fer his firm and combined with his radio holdings makes it the 'largest media investment firm in the world" No changes are expected in LIN's operations he said adding that his approach is to add finandial expertise and use existing Management to handle the projected growth of the organization KXAS traces its roots to the Star-Telegram and its founder Monet From Page IA Art Gallery "It is a really exciting piece It is an extremely rare and I won't say unique but close to unique rnasterpiece of the last decade of the most important 19th- and 20th-century French artist It's 11 Principal Elda Gonzalez listens to lot more different and it wasn't" Gonzalez says The number of students at Daggett about 800 wasn't an issue for her because the enrollment at Worth Heights was about the same The first day of school gives birth to the same problems no matter what grade level such as last-minute transfers and enrollments attendance and confused students Even the occasional class scheduling mix-ups in middle school weren't so different from the ones she faced at the elementary level where students are sometimes placed in the wrong class the facts" Geary said that the Grand Prairie Police Department did all it could for the case "From the criminal side we made our presentation" Geary said "We presented the case as we do in any case The grand jury heard it they true-billed it and the Dallas County district attorney took it before court where a jury of 12 heard it It shows we do review our officers very closely any time deadly force is utilized" On Monday West asked if jurors would be able to consider a lesser charge of manslaughter by reckless conduct a second-degree felony But District Court Judge Janice Warder rejected that request After yesterday's verdict West said he does not know whether the lesser charge would have made a difference in the verdict Read said the verdict will send a positive message to law enforcement officers across the world LIN's largest-market station is KXAS It also owns NBC affiliates in Norfolk Va and Austin CBS affiliates in Indianapolis Buffalo NY and Fort Wayne Ind and ABC affiliates in New Haven Conn and Decatur Ill Its other local marketing agreements are with stations in New Haven Norfolk and Austin LIN reported revenue of nearly $145 million for the six months ended June 30 compared with $133 million in revenue for the same period the previous year It said its net income reached $227 million up from $198 million the year before The deal was announced after the stock markets closed yesterday LIN's stock closed at $48625 per share up 75 cents in Nasdaq trading Hicks Muse has agreed to pay $4750 per share in cash plus interest that would push the final price to just over $49 a share if stockholders approve the deal on Nov 30 In most acquisitions companies pay a premium above the ends" in the artist's ever-evolving art "The 1919 Weeping Willow not only complements the Kimbell's majestic seascape of 1865 a watershed in its early development but it provides eloquent testimony to Monet's importance in the context of later 20th-century art" said Ted Pillsbury dk-ector of the museum It was just a coincidence that Muse TV deal Tate Furst of Dallas will acquire these separate deals valued at more than for murder He was later fired from the department Hubbard and his attorneys contended that the officer was used as a "sacrificial lamb" to appease political pressure But all sides said race played little part in Hubbard's criminal trial Calloway's relatives declined interview requests yesterday said Cameron Spradling their civil attorney "What everyone needs to remember is that the vast majority of white people and black people want to live together and they want to improve the quality of life and want justice for all human beings They are pretty saddened right now They don't want to talk" They plan to pursue a civil suit against Hubbard and the city Meanwhile Hubbard plans to ask for his job back said his attorney John Read Deputy Chief Brad Geary said Hubbard has 30 days to appeal his Amon Carter Sr It was created in 1948 as WBAP TV sharing call letters with what was then the Star-Telegram 's radio station It produced the first TV signal broadcast in Texas In 1974 when Carter Communications was sold to Capital Cities Communications federal laws required the sale of WBAP television which then changed its name to ICXAS TV As an NBC affiliate KXAS broadcasts some of the most popular programs on television including Seinfeld ER and Friends Along with KXTX the two stations have also broadcast many Rangers games during the past two seasons and the baseball team is considered one of LIN's programming strengths Fox Sports Southwest a cable outlet broadcasts some Rangers games The National Hockey League's Stars have a contract for another two years with three other outlets to broadcast their games KDFIChannel 27 will have 33 games next season while Fox Sports South really truly a great great acquisition" The Kimbell Art Foundation purchased the painting from a New York foundation which Kimbell officials declined to identify Previous owners were banker David Rockefeller and before him Baron Kojiro Matsukata a Japanese collector who purchased the painting from the artist The work 3914 inches by firing to the three-member Grand Prairie Civil Service Commission "Then the Civil Service Commission or a third-party arbitrator will hold a hearing with subpoenas to be issued and witnesses called similar to a trial" Geary said 'The difference is they will be looking to see if his actions violated state or city regulations Geary noted that Grand Prairie's policy on deadly force is stricter than state law "An officer can use force only in protection of himself or a third pally" Geary said Police Chief Harry Crum who will retire on Aug 31 could not be reached for comment and Doputy Chief Charlie Miller who will become interim chief on Sept 1 did not return phone calls George West who prosecuted the case said he could not argue with the jury's decision "They did what their job was to decide whether or not he's guilty" West said "I just present west will have 39 games KDFWChannel 4 will have 10 games next season UN the nation's 22nd largest TV group will keep its headquarters in Providence RI and LIN Chief Executive Gary Chapman will remain at the top of the LIN organization the company said LIN's board unanimously approved the sale to Hicks Muse but the deal also must be approved by shareholders and regulators owns 45 percent of LIN's stock and chief financial officer endorsed the deal publicly yesterday saying the TV enterprises were not central to its communications strategy has sold other noncore businesses including submarine systems a capital company and a paging system acquired its stake in LIN through its September 1994 merger with McCaw Cellular Communications which indirectly held a majority of shares The Grand Rapids station involved in the side transaction was owned by 47A inches is on display in the museum's north gallery Hanging nearby is a painting completed much earlier by Monet who lived from 1840 to 1926 Pointe de la Heve at Low Tide (1865) also a part of the museum's permanent collection is a seascape of northern France Wendy Gottlieb a spokeswoman for the museum said the two paintings represent "book Grand Rapids Mich (37) WOOD NBC 8 I Several of these stations have operating agreements providing programming for stations owned by others They are KXTX Channel 39 in Fort Worth-Dallas WBNE Channel 59 in New Haven-Hartford WVBI Channel 43 in Norfolk-Portsmouth KNVA Channel 54 in '1" Austin and WOW Channel 41 in Grand Rapids SOURCE Hicks Muse Tate Furst '0 Station Channel Network KXAS WISH WTNH WIVE WAVY KXAN WAND WANE 5 8 8 4 10 36 17 15 NBC CBS ABC CBS NBC NBC ABC CBS Station Channel Network Star-Mlegram company for some time If approved Hicks Muse would assume control on April 30 1998 the companies said Staff writer Mike Heika contributed to this report I i Fort Worth" Pillsbury said Yet Weeping Willow one of 10 in a series has a darker more abstract feel than the lush Mediterranean seascapes in the exhibit "The twisted branches have sort of an anguish to them" said Barbara Mirecki exhibition coordinator at the Art Institute of Chicago "He was really looking at very modern ideas of space and color" stock's trading range But Hicks said Wall Street investors had already pushed up LIN's stock price because had been shopping the the painting was acquired during the Monet exhibit which has drawn the second-largest crowd in Kimbell history Gottlieb said The Barnes collection in 1994 attracted more than 400000 visitors and was on display about a month longer than the Monet exhibit she said "If the success of the current exhibition is any measure the new Monet should prove to be one of the public's favorite artworks in 1-.