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Show The Salt Lake Tribune UTAH Study Links Test Scores Cee oe rearwt by eee Pees Syme Aig LS —] CONGRATULATIONS | NORTHEAST auto mEcHnNINSTT & SS not ‘T don't believe in capital punishment . . If we teach people a to spank their kids becauseviolence should not be a punishment, why would you kill somebodyto have them stop killing? Patrice Gaines Reporter and author And Diversity Felon Who Made Good Says Prisoners Can Change If They Love Themselves Moneyalone won't solve problem, says foundation She overcame drughabit, jail, poor self-image to become an author, reporter BY HILARY GROUTAGE BY GREG BURTON THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE At 21, Patrice Gaines peered A study released recently by the Utah Foun- dation shows yet another troubling side to the out a windowinside a Charlotte. national reading scores that were recently released. As the state's N.C., jail to catch aglimpseofher grandfather, her mother and her lation has become more diverse, the report states, test scores in Utah "Your diploma’s not going to be readyfor another two weeks,plusit turns out your tuition is going to be about $1,200 more than we originally estimated.” babygirl, a child Gainesdelivered schools havefallen. ‘Theanswer may not be more money, but paying more attention to the money currently available just beforeher first taste of her- to look at where the money is being spent,” said black womanshared a cell with eight other women who told sto: ries of the big house — how the food and the conditions would be oin. It was summertime. It's the next stepin school reform — we need Diana Cortez, specialist in bilingual and alterna tive language services at the State Office of Edu FOR THE RECORD cation better once she madeit to prison Michael Christensen, executive director ofthe STORE OWNERS, CLERKS ARRESTED Several conveniencestore owners andclerks were we want to improvetest scores in thestate of Utah, we've got to address this issue of greater ethnic diversity in the state.” Christensen said adding that the foundation does not want thedi pseudoephedrine, aningredient used in the manufac turing of methamphetamine. Nine peoplewere arrest ed from convenience stores in Salt Lake City, Salt life.” for 1998 show that the median Utah student in Theauthor of Laughingin the However, the NAEP reading test shows 39 per- Dark, FromColored Girl to Wom. an of Color and Moments of Grace: Meeting the Challenge to of fourth-graders in Utah displ d reading skills belowthebasic level. The Utah Foundationreport also charts signifi- criminals. the 50th percentile in 18 of 21 major subjects, cent of fourth-graders nationally and 23 percent Change openedthe two-day con ference with a plea for compas sion in dealing with America’s cant changes inthestate’s racial makeup in the past decade. Hispanic, Asian/Pacific Islander wandered into astranger's Salt Lake County home begging for food in March. The girl and her three brothers — ages 2. 5 and 9 — are instate custody African-American and American Indian Third District Judge Anthony B. Quinnreduced bail during a bond hearing Thursday. The reduction probably will not be enoughto allow Mageeto leave Oxbow Jail where she has remainedsinceturning herself in on March23. said her attorney, Michael Humiston Magee's preliminary hearingis set for June3. Sheurgeda reduction in harsh sentencing and an end to the boomtownconstruction of warehouse-like prisons, advocating instead a penal systemthat relies on children now makeup morethan11 percent of Utah’s stu- dent population, as opposed to 7.4 percent in job-skill training, psychological 1990 and7.6 percent in 1980 Christensen said the report should not imply healing, treatment for addiction andtransitional housing And, above all else, she suggest- the foundation wants the influx of minorities to stop, but rather that educators and administra- tors should think carefully about where money is edthat teaching prisonersto love districts with high numbers of minority students ‘Things arealways light in budgets. but you're about for recovering addicts, fel being spent — particularly in schools and school MORE FECES CONFIRMED themselves would produce a turn- ons and other disenfranchised Americ: We canall find ways to hate ourselves,’ said Gaines, 48. "For me, it was because I was a young black girl. It was the teachers who not going to address these problems by trying to find quick solutions or gimmicks,” Christensen said. Two Salt Lake County housespatterings overnight Tuesday in Cottonwood and Holladay were determined Thursday to be fecal matter, However, officials will not know if the material is animal or humanuntil Monday, saidSalt Lake County sheriff's Deputy Peggy Faulkner. Several other homesintheSalt LakeValley were also hit by flying matter Tuesday and Wednesday, but labtests are not complete. “here have been about a dozen spatteringssince Apri: 10, Officials be lievethefirst ones may have come froman aircraft but the most recent, they believe, are the work of pranksters from the ground Cortez agrees. Weneed funds in education, but we need to look at what ourpriorities are. Wealso need to treated medifferently. take a look at how we spend these funds. These students did not appearovernight. Some of them have always beenhere,” she said Thenice thingis weare recognizing and using the research,” Cortez said. And research shows when children who speak a language other than English at homearevalidated in school and en- But love can't cureall, somein the audience at Westminster Col- We're talking about literacy here, n they're ethnic or not she said tener asked Gaines if she would advocate the murderer's release if one dayhe said “Aha,” repent hether ed his crimes, learnedto love himself and promised to love others I don't know,” Gaines admit and a high percentageof students onfree or re ted, “but there’s so muchI believe we could learn [from prisoners who successfully change their lives}. I don't believe in capital punishment If we teach people not to spank their kidsbe the program10 percent, eliminatingfive schools cause violence should not be a punishment, why would you kill The first was the state’s Highly Impact Schools Program. It funnels additional funds to schools with high student mobility, large percent located on the Utah portion of the Navajo Nationres ervation. He pleaded guilty to a felony charge ofacces: sory after the fact for assisting two juveniles who com: of minorities, many single-parent families ducedschool lunch. mitted the break-in at the school. According to federal prosecutors, the juveniles broke into the school and This year, the Legislature cut somebody to havethemstop kill that have received the funding in the past. Thesecond was Gov, Mike Leavilt’s new Read took about $5,800 worth of school property, Benally then hid much of the merchandise in his home, prose ing Achievement Program. cutors say. He faces up to years in federal prison and afine of $125,000 when he is sentenced onJul ing? ference, level by the timethey complete third grade. t ALT LAKE TRIBUNE \ woman who stopped to smoke a cigarette across the street from a Salt Lake City police station thinking he was role-playing something he was upset about was walking grocery store on200 Southat about 1 p.m. when she stopped to light a cigarette in fr of Winchell's Donut House E. 200 South. Suddenly, she told police, she wa shoved so hard from the front that she fell down When she looked up, she saw a man with his pants unzipped, ex posing himself, called hi She got » She said the man ‘slut up and tried to run be hind the doughnut but the man tackled her We wondered why she didn't run to the police station, but when people are in stressful situations they do whatever they can think of quickly to be safe,” Gleason said . The4yoman told police the man > California. ‘, Gleason said Maybe someone will recognize said the man alcohol. He jumped at the grocery store parkin Salt Lake police Sgt. ( raig Glea son said 37, The victim from her home to a nw & Crystal Janke We're hoping he may be bumped up — maybe abrokenrib smelled of | Alb: lot and then orst part about it is she said another man saw her and - heard her scream, but he didn't stop to help.” ¢ on said The woman was taken to Salt I eRe ional eated for bru on her face. was also ¢ Hospital to be arms and ie ee j George & Doris Hendry ee Eee. | | Happy Birthday May 14th Steven Nelson (Kelsey) Canham From Your Family we and legs. She ered with dirt from was changed forever,” Gaines said We canhelp people change.” fection fromstreet thugs. After a short jail sentence for possessionof heroinwithintent to distribute and five years on pro- bation, Gaines said she still hadn't licked heroin or lost her desire for abusive men — hustlers and two-timers who raped her while cultivating her thirst for heroin and. later, cocaine. After jail, she either couldn't get hiredor shelost jobs because ofherfelony conviction, Eventu ally, she concealedher past. She took uptyping, went to school and took a reporter's job at the Char- Set lotte Observer. Se] But even when I stoppedusing drugs, I wasn't well. I just looked well,” Gaines wrote ina 1997 Post ENERGYEFFICIENT TURAL GAS SYST! INDOOR WEATHER EXPERT LIMITED TIME OFFER BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND Ry Customer Appreciation SALE 8X10 PORTRAIT & = a 0° FOR UNDER CMMs $2886 NO SITTING FEE. EVER! | " UPTO SEPANOTI 1200 SQ. 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The victim told police she would be ableto identify him in a lineup when “Crime & Punishment would like t invite you toa y celebration of their commitment to each other Saturday, May 15, 1997 at Ham, at the Orange Crest Ward, 7 Via Lo Caballeros in * 16930 Riverside utes before he fled him by that The woman Va. a young teen-ager she sought af- fection in small ways she had nev. er noticed before. “That day I changed and | 256-0076 fought with him for several min or something.”’ Quantico, young, was not affectionate, so as of love, her father revealedhisaf- Ck kicked him in the stomach and female With the vulgar, derogatory angry language he used, we're reer Marine who brought thefamilyto mPa truck her in the face with his fist several times, then ripped open her pants. She hit him in the face. Wednesday afternoon was at tacked by a manpolice say may have targeted her because she is stand Gaines said her father, Towards a MoreEffective Reha Near Salt Lake Police Station BY KELLY KENNEDY over before 1 could actually of thefirst times she could recall Introducing the two-day con: The goal of the pro- gram is to haveall students reading at their grade WomanFights Off Attacker womantrying to kick a drug habit It’s easy tostay off drugs while Using a three-time murderer on death row as an example, onelis Indeed, the Utah Foundationpraised two state programs that promote literacy Lake City’s federal court for his role in th: February 1997 burglary of the Montezuma Elementary School T © idea also has obsessed ines. who, when sheleft jail, lege’s Gore Auditoriumsaid couragedto read, they learn more effectively ACCESSORY PLEADS GUILTY Alphonso D. Benally. Aneth, pleaded guilty in Salt Gaines said. “My child would look for me and this is where I'd be I wouldn't know who dressedher, whobraided her hair ago. grades five, eight and11 is performing at or above Bail has been reduced from$50,000 to $10,000 fora woman who allegedly beat andstarved her6-year-old daughter. Lezlee Magee, 41, was charged with seconddegree felony child abuse after her waifish daughter symposium sponsored by the Utah State Bar andCitizens for Penal Reform. Then it hit me: If I didn't change my life, this would be my ‘The annual statewidetesting program results MOTHER'S BAIL REDUCED being alone with her father. While there was no passionate endearments or outward displays City audience Thursday, during a Foundation lookedat the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) reading test results ily, religion and an admission to her employersat the Post that she had lied on her application. It also youare in jail,” she said. “[On the outside] [ had to stumbleover and keynote address for released several weeks myself. For Gaines, self-forgiveness andself-love took therapy, fam. be because ise you are nothing public serviceagency that studies state andlocal 500 grams at someof the stores. Those arrested will face state or federal charges. someundercover purchasers wereable to buy upto pearedvia a pre-recor ing, “Penal reformis anidea that has obsessed us since we walked in the door two years a lot of people. I couldn't forgive on hertherapist's advice, was one Gaines, author and Washington Post reporter, tolda Salt Lake 24 grams of the over-the-counter drug, while under state law the maximumis 12 grams. Mendrala said ap- explode still believed I was worthless. I had made one mistake after another, and I had hurt took a late-in-life breakfast with her now deceased father. The breakfast, which she orchestrated versity in the population to decrea government in Utah. The group has reported on the statewide testing program each year since 1990. Thestatewidetestingp i bydistrict, school and grade tionto reporting onthe testing program, the Utah year as corrections chief, was an emotional bomb waiting to says there waslittle support for a “There was a part of methat said this is where you deserve to The Utah Foundation is a private, nonprofit Lake County and Ogdenforselling large amounts of the common cold medicine, according to Drug En. forcement Administration spokesman Don Mendrala Under federal law, consumer can buy a maximum of ease the transition of inmates to ex-cons Haun, approaching his second a nice car. The truth was that I ago.” nal behaviorto men they hopedto It’s a sticky issue, What we'resaying is that if apyandprogramming designedto column. “I had the trappings of a successful person — a journalism career, a child in college, a house please or satisfy or escape —andwho all traced their crimi- Utah Foundation, agrees arrested Thursday for the sale of a large amount of The young bilitation & Correctional System,” 3rdDistrict JudgeLeslie A Lewis praised Utah Corrections Director Pete Haun, whois an advocate for intermediate sentencing, drug treatment, mental ther- ALL 1999 GRAND CARAVANS CLOSE TO HOME T7149 Friday, May14, 1999 1 } B2 on the Web. www.sltrib.com |
