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Show ' Teacher Mine Continued from A I Continued from A I other measures. Malfarosays the Austin effort will expand slowly end be evaluated me- thodically to avoid the kinds of mistakes made elsewhere. "Our approach has been a slow, deliberate and steady one Malfaro said. 'This is a highway with wrecked cars all over R. .. Florida recently had to retool a merit pay plan after a large number of districts opted out, citing teacher concerns. A plan in Houston came under criticism because it was put in place over teachers objections. Vanderbilt University education professor Jim Guthrie, said the involvement of teachers is essential 1 just put myself in their shoes. AUof a sudden you. are going to change all the rules and youre not going to talk to me?1 said Guthrie, who is assisting districts that. , ' got federal grants to imple-ment merit pay. Weil the AFT official said teacher compensation, has to be bargained locally . He also said the new plans should make good prpfes- sional development available to increase the chances that teachers will raise students' : achievement.' Union opposition to merit pay stems partly from failed.. efforts of the 1980s. In those : cases, principals generally were given the power to . decide who would get the ad-- -. Rsopie need to know this man did there was never anthis instinctively other thought, she said. That just goes to show you what kind of character he had. He never thought of himself. Mednwhile, support for the six trapped miners and others who were killed or injured in the latest cavern multiplied overnight at homes and businesses. In Rice, a car wash was held to raise money for families and signs sprouted around town. A banner reading Please pray for our friends was hanging outside James StoWes porch. He worked with Dale Black, another rescuer who died Thursday, and Manuel Sanchez, one of the trapped miners, at other mines. If theyd let me go in. Id ga Theres a bunch of us that would," Stowe said. "I havent given up hope yet. I think a lot of them are smart enough to take care of each other and make it." He recalled a time when "Manny Sanchez cut his hand in a mine, took a ' SOminute break but refused to go home. "That's the kind of guy he is. He never complained," Stowe said.. Kristin Kimber said she and Brandon Kimber had a 5y ear-ol- d daughter and twin boys. They were dose fnends despite their divorce. Brandon Kimber had a regular breakfast date with his children at JB's Restaurant in Price. They also made ; frequent visits to a nearby quarry of dinosaur bones. The Couples daughter, Bryton,teDs me now that I cant take her to the dino park because thats her daddy's park, Kristin Kimber said, spiling tears. . Brandon Kimber was a miner for . . - -- . . ; - - : . . . . . . ' . . : ditional dollars. . .. - . . . '. ' . - ' . . . - . - . . ' ' $ai Bemanke 4 .cv t -- o , A. It ' '' - : ' & . on using .. " greater emphasisschools. The objective data in law requires annual math and reading tests. The scores - of students in certain grade are compared year to year. ; Lawmakers want to change ' the law, which is up for re- , newal, to encourage schools ' io measure individual s! udent progress overtime instead of using snapshot comparisons ' of certain grade levels. Once schools track that, they coukl look at which teachers consistently are moving students along, say children's advocates. Some ' places, including Tennessee, already are doing this. But teachers say many . factors affect test scores, including some that are beyond their control for example, family income and level of ' parental involvement. While individual student scores already are tied to teachers pay in Denver and elsewhere, Austins program relies on test scores to re- -' ward all teachers for schoolwide gains. Johnson, the Harvard professor, said that is fair. . Its becoming clear to do math well you have to read : welL So if students do well in math, do you give that math teacher the bonus? Or do you give that bonus to the reading teacher two years before? Malfaro said Austin's will encourage teach-er- s to collaborate instead of competing. To further encourage that, some teachers win serve, as mentors. As in Denver, principals and teachers will work together to set , goals at the start of the year.. If this is just about mak- -' ing money a different way .: and isnt about forcing sys- temwide change, than I think it fails to live up to its potential Malfaro sakLThen 1 think its just going to be one more education fad that kind of came up, got kicked around for a few years, and then faded out. And that would be a shame, The Austin school board n approved more than $4 annually to fund the pilot program. A districtwide plan would cost at least S30 million annually, which voters would have to approve, Malfaro says. Astudy of the pilot program in Denver, before it was expanded, showed that the changes improved stu-deachievement. That probably helped persuade voters to support a $25 million-e-yea- r tax increase to pay for ' expanding it to the entire school system. jjl . '; . xy . fix ' ... V . H'1 v, .. '' ' , . 2 . . . . . , . ; . . . NASH TV Hurricane Dean is seen from the international . space statknvon Saturday." aded . Hurricane Continued from A 1 - . . . . . . . . mil-So- -- nt . Oh the Net I Denver compensation : J take a direct hR on Monday. Earlier in the day, lines of tourists waiting for flights v snaked out of the international airport terminal and onto the lawn outside. Many tourists flopped under a tree to get out of the sun, surrounded by their luggage. Cayman Airways added 15 flights to Florida from the wealthy British territory, . and they were quickly sold out. The scene was relatively calmer in the Dominican Republic. Residents ran errands at stores with fully stocked shelves, despite government advisories about heavy rains : and posable flooding. Nothings going tp happen here a jot of water but noth--. ing else said Pwlro Alvajar, 61, as he sat in a doorway selling lottery tickets. The outer bands of the storm were expected to bring as much as 10 indies of rain to the Dominican Republic and Haiti which share the island of Forecasters said it was too ' soon to say whether the hur- - J ricane would strike the United States,-.- ' Worried the storm could disrupt operations at Mission " Control in Houston, however, NASA shortened the last spacewalk for astronauts aboard the shuttle Endeavour and ordered the spacecraft to return to , Earthaday early on Tuesday. ' Resident Bush, meanwhile, emersigned a gency disaster declaration for Texas, allowing the federal government to immediately send people, equipment and supplies to the state if Dean makes landfall there. In Cuba, which could get rain from the outer bands of the storm, the government issued a tropical storm warning and said R was evacuating 50,000 people from three provinces. Dean passed near the islands of St. Lucia and Martinique early Friday as a Category 2 storm wRh winds near 100 Hispaniola. In Haiti the government mph. issued radio alols for people In St. Lucia, fierce winds in the mountains and coastal tore corrugated metal roofs areas. In 2004, Tropical Storm from dozens of homes and l, Jeanne brushed the impover- the pediatric ward of a ished and heavily deforested whose patients had been evacuated hours earlier. country, triggering massive floods that killed 1,900 people Police spokeswoman Tamara ., and left 900 others missing. Charles said a 6&year-oi- d man .. drowned when he tried to reDean, the first hurricane of the Atlantic season, gained trieve a cow from a river. strength over warm Caribbean waters after claiming six lives In Dominica, a woman and and devastating banana and ' her son were killed d hillside when a sugar crops when R hit tiny islands in the eastern Carib-bea- n gave way and crushed the on Friday as a Category home where they were sleep2 storm. ing, said Cedi Shillingford, As of 11 p.m. Saturday, the national disaster response Dean was centered about 170 coordinator. Dominicas govmiles of ernment reported at least 150 Haiti and 360 miles homes were damaged. of Kingston. It Authorities said two people was moving west at 17 mph. died on the French island of The storm was expected to Martinique, including a woman dip Mexicos Yucatan Peninsu- who apparently fell and la and enter the Gulf of Mexico drowned. by Tuesday, according to the R Associated Press writers National Hurricane Cotter in Deb Riedimaiui in Crawford, Miami ' Authorities on Mexicos Ca- - Texas; Evans Sanen in hurricane.. g ribbean coast began evacuat-- . Further west in the Haiti; Tommie Cayman Islands, the governing tourists and residents from Chisliolm in George Town, ment issued a hurricane warnHdbox island north Cayman Islands; Guy Ellis in ing late Saturday and ordered a of Cancun on Saturday. A total Castries, St. Lucia; Ellsworth mandatory evacuation by noon of 200 people, inching some Carter In Roseau, Dominica; 250 Mexican and foreign tourand Herve Preval in today of Little Cayman, the smallest of the territory's three ists, were ordered to loive, Martinique, contributed to this report islands, which were expected to state officials said. rough waves also destroyed five houses and damaged 15 along the Dominican coast , emergency officials said. In Jamaica and the Cayman Islands, which stand directly in Deans path, fear gripped many islanders and tourists alike Bracing for the storm to hit ; ' today .Jamaica issued a hur- ricane warning and began evacuating people to more than 1,000 shelters nationwide People jammed supermarkets and hardware stores in the capRal of Kingston to stock up on canned food, bottled water, flashlights, batteries, lamps and plywood, while shop owners hammered wood over windows at malls in the city. Resident Elaine Russell said she was getting ready for the storm remembering Hur- - .. ricane Ivan's destruction in 2004. I can't take R," she said. "The storm is bad enough but it's what happens afterward there's no light, no water." . Before dawn, tourists began lining up outside the Montego Bay airport in western Jamaica to book flights out. The storm, which had maximum sustained winds of 145 mph late Satur-day, was expected to bring as much as 20 inches of rain to the island. Shante Morgan of Moor- - ' park, Calif., said a lack erf information about the severity of the storm was fueling the fear. People are freaking out because they're not getting answers at their hotel" said Morgan, 38, who got a Satur- - . day flight after waiting several hours. They're really playing down the potential influence of the hurricane." Jamaican Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller called for a halt to campaigning for the Aug. 27 general elections, saying: Let us band together and unite in the threat of this . . Ber-nan- ke . . ll ' . . n hos-pRa- . : . rain-swolle- n . . rain-soake- policy-makin- . south-southwe- st Rxt-au-Prin- . . Port-au-Princ- e, low-lyin- g www.educationaustin.org I American Federation of Teachers: www.aft.org Fort-de-Fran- I NationalEducation Association: www.nea.org I g Ber-nank- low-lyin- plan: denverprocomp.org I Austin teachers' union: ... . , A f , economist at Carnegie Mellon : UuversRy who contributed to a book edked by Bemanke referring to the complicated new view on fleeting evidence," y types of debt products that. said Alan S. Blinder, a Princhave been particulariy affecteton economist and former ed by the problems in the marFed vice chairman who ' kets. "The sequence of actions the Fed has taken fks closed has known Bemanke for ' wRh what I would have ex- years. "He wants to see real evidence before changing his pected on the basis of what the views about the economy., y community of academics and central bankers and economic Bemanke is betting that ;. the underlying U.S. economy historians believe. to strong enough to weather The way many financial- - ' the damage. In this view, if he market participants view R, ; had done more to address the Bemankes background in ' concerns of Wall Street soonhigher education he spent efPrincR his career of most at had the would have er, fect of bailing out people who eton and has also worked at made bad bets and could have; ..the WhRe House and previ- - .' worsened the crisis. Oucially, ously at the Fed makes him Bemanke does not expect the less attuned to financial marups and downs of financial ... kets than Greenspan was. , markets to cripple what econ- - The Bemanke Fed looks much more academic, said ' omists like to call the real economy" the decisions of Diane Swonk, chief economist businesses to expand and hire, of Mesirow Financial in Chfca-g- a "There are fewer market, for example. If he to right end the linked people there now." On the other hand, BemanStates does not suffer any significant economic downturn ke has spent a career studying how central bankers respond from the recent trauma in the markets, he is likely to be to crises. He is among the foremost scholars of the Great heaped wkh praise for his Depression, a period in which response. It might the Fed failed to prevent the even gain him some of the mystique that his predecessor, economy from collapsing. Alan Greenspan, eqjoyed. Greenspan became a hero ' If hes wrong and the nation to the financial markets in falh into recession, he will be ; 1987, two months after he "a oneterm Fed chairman," as became Fed chairman, for his Standard & Poors chief econo- response to a stock market crash. Greenspan assured " mist David Wyss put fc. For two weeks, Wall Street markets that the Fed would provide liquidity in the wake whisperers have accused of not doing enough to of the crash, and stocks soon standi the problems. And in a rebounded. Similarly, in 1998,' video dip viewed more than ' Greenspan cut a key interest 180,000 times on YouTlAe, the rate after Russia defaulted on Rs debt and a giant hedge hyperbolic market commentafund imploded, threatening tor Jim Cramer screams that Bemanke does not understand to bring down the financial system wkh R. The markets then stabilized, and the U.S. For the most part, t economic expansion lasted response from the reserved three mare years. career academic has been silence. Bemanke has given Bemanke to trying to balno speeches and kept a public ance two competing interests. If he doesn't do enough to profile through the tumuk. calm the markets, businesses Behind the scenes, he has been gathering information might become more cautious from Fed staff members. Wall and decide to hold off on buyStreet contacts and a wide ing new equipment. Consumrange of other sources. His ' ers might pull back on their key collaborators in dealing spending. Economic growth wkh the crisis have been Vice would slow down. On Friday, Chairman Donald L Kohn and said that consumer confidence Timothy F. Getthner, presihR Rs lowest level in a year. dent of the Federal Reserve But there's the ride of doing Bank of New York. too much to soothe the marAt the Feds whke marble kets, toa If Bemanke moves headquarters an Cbnstku-tioAvenue NW, senior staff too aggressively to calm members have held mukiple things down, R might result in the bailout of people who daily conference calls with market participants. Bemanke made foolish beta, such as has sent emails to top advisers those who issued mortgages to borrowers who couldn't afevery few hours, exploring ford them. That might encourways the Fed might respond. Having already aired various age investors in the future to ideas throughout the past two take even more irresponsible weeks, members of the Feds risks, a problem economists call moral hazard. coramRtee decided quickly on Thursday The Fed's moves on Friday night on the announcements to attempted to deal wkh the make Friday morning. shortage of liquidity in global There was no single factor markets by letting banks use or event that led the Fed to mortgage loans as collateral nuke Rs move; onjy a sense wkh which to barrow cash. It that on Wednesday and Thurs- was thus narrowly targeted at the exact markets that are day the problems in the marketplace had gotten worse and troubled. That reflects were at risk of turning ktto a attempt to hmR the risks to growth wkhout trigcycle. A centralbankers worst nightmare gering the moral hazard. to an environment in which in"When push comes to vestors avoid any risky asset, shove, they know they have to driving prices dmvn further protect the smooth functionand, in turn, making everyone ing of financial markets," said even more fearfuL Wyss, of Standard & Boors. "We have Bttle experience "Whatever you say about the wkh how financial markets Fed needing to focus on inflabehave in sRuatkms such tion, if they don't have control as this, given the spread of over the financial markka these structured securities," they dont have any control said Marvin Goodfriend, an over the economy, ekher." A-- , - . . Continued front A1 , . . ; The 2002 No Child Left Behind law has placed a . . . r? c;; . : ; 2X7 1 rcGu . They often had no basis of any objective measure of performance, said Susan Moore Johnson, a professor at the Harvard Graduate. School Of Education So what :. sometimes happened is there would be different awards made to different individuals and they would become pub-- . lie, and people would heap-palle- d at the individuals who were giveii the awards or not given the awards." Sundiy. August previous tries. We did not detect any signals from miners underground, said Ridard SafeStickler, head of the federal Mine Administration. Health and ty Dews spent at least four hours bestoff ing on the drill sted and setting atminers the to to explosives try get tention, he said. Stickler said a fifth hole was planned. "As long as we have hope, we will continue working and doing everything we can. Our goal is to find these miners alive," he sud. Rob Moore, vice president of Murray Energy Corp cnowner of the Oandall Canyon mine, remained optr mint ie. Make no mistake about it: This continues to be a rescue effort," Moore, said. "We have encountered setbacks. Ml C. HQMqAaiociHad Pi I Weve incurred losses, but we have not and will not give up hope." Ryaa WHsoa diovais (Rrt as he removes obstructing plants In front of a sign Even if rescuers found any of the six supporting six trapped miners insidethe Crandall Canyon Mins on Saturday. miners alive an increasingly unlikely prospect, given the amount of time more than three years, mostly at Cran- icollapsed mine where six workers have elapsed it would take weeks to lift been trapped nearly two weeks, a disdall Canyon. He didnt hesitate when than out. the cavoin occurred Aug. 6. . MSHA has broached the idea of a heartening Mow in a rescue effort that has killed three other people. "He loved those men," Kristin Kim-he- r rescue capsule to Murray Energy Goni A microphone lowered into the new A rescue capsule is in the vicinity and. said of the trapped miners. "He said hole revealed nothing to indicate that it was his duty to go down there and the muiing company had its engineers examine the road up the mountain to ; anyone was in the cavern, and atget those men and get them out. ' She said he complained about the tempts to communicate with the miners find out exactly what they need for ' the road to support a 3(Wnch drill" pace of the rescue but never expressed by tapping on a drill bit yielded no re- tear about conditions inside the un- said Kevin StrickUn, chief of coal mine sponse, a federal official said. A video camera was lowered into the hole, but stable mountain. . .. safety for the federal Mine Safety and Brandon Kimber reminded his former the images have not yet been analyzed. Health Administration. wife about his belief: When the good : Now that tunneling has stopped, a Underground tunneling has been Lord calls me home, He calls me home. halted since a mountain bump Thursrescue capsule is the only way of getBesides Kimber and Black, 48, the day killed three rescuers and injured ting the miners out. six others. If its the only option you have, you other rescue worker who died Thurs-- . Officials had hoped a fourth hole make R work, Stricklin said. day was federal inspector Gary Jensen, 51 Six people were injured; two were ' drilled into the mine would finally offer in hospitals Saturday in fair condition. dues to whether the men were Olive I AP writers Mdiael Rubinkam, Rescuers found no signs of life Sat; Jessica Gresksaqd Alicia CaldweR .. 1,500 feet below ground. Instead, , contributed to this report. urday after drilling a fourth hole into a the results were the same as the three . - , HERALD DAILY AS 1 |