Student of the Month Lede

Who-Ellie
Where- Bowie High School
What-Recieved student of the month
When- Last week
Why-Was involved a lot in school
How-Did a lot of extra work for classes and had all A's in her classes

Last week the Bowie High School Student of he Month award goes to Freshman student Ellie for her huge involvement in the school.

Additional Student of the Month Interviews

Additional Student of the Month

Interview with Ellie's Friend
1.  What was your reaction to finding out Ellie had received student of the month?
Her friend replied,"I was so happy and proud of her that she received student of the month."
2. How did you find out she received this?
She said,"Ellie told me she received this right after she found out." 3. What did she do to deserve this?
According to her friend Ellie had worked hard and did the best she could do to receive this.
4. How would you feel if she got student of the month again?
Her friend answered,"I would be just as proud of her and support her just as much." 5. What was Ellie's reaction?
Her friend explained that she was excited and proud of herself. 6. How did you support her?
She said,"I always told her to believe that she could receive student of the month."

Interview with Ellie's teacher
1. What was your reaction finding out Ellie had received student of the month?
Her teacher replied,"I was so proud and excited for her when she received this."
2. How did you find out she received this?
The teacher explained that the office called her to tell Ellie that she received.
3. What did she do to deserve this?
She answered,"Ellie did a lot of extra credit and stayed on top of her grades."
4. What was her reaction when you told her?
According to her teacher Ellie was proud of herself and couldn't stop smiling.
5. What kind of grades did she get in class?
She said,"Ellie got all A'sin her classes."
6. How would you feel if she received this again?
The teacher explained that she would feel just as proud of her for working hard.

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My Top Story of the Century

1.

Title- The U.S Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 

August 16, 1945, in effects to end World War II the U.S dropped the first atomic bomb on Japans city Hiroshima. The massive explosion destroyed 90 percent of the population in the area that was hit. Three days later the U.S dropped another bomb on the city of Nagasaki which was soon followed by the surrender of Japan's Emperor Hirohito due to the massive damage from the bombs.

   I believe that this a important event of the century because it ended World War II which had a huge effect on many. Also this impacted so many lives and was a big cost made by the U.S. And I think that even today people in that area are still recovering from this damage.

2. 

Title- President John F. Kennedy Assassinated in Dallas

On November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was traveling through Dallas,Texas were he was then shot by Lee Harvey Oswald. The shots not only seriously hurt Kennedy but wounding also the Texas Governor John Connally. The next day on November 23, President Johnson made a proclamation declaring November 25 to be a national mooring day for the died president.

  I think this is a important event of that century because it was a moment where America lost its leader. It also was a wake up call that assignations can come out of anywhere. I also think that because Kennedy was such a popular president it effect so many. 

3.

  Title- First Man to Walk on the Moon

On July 20, 1969 astronant Neil Armstrong was named the first man to walk on the moon. The famous words spoken as he took the steps were,"One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."The astronauts made the mission on the now famous Apollo 11. 

 I think tis is a important event of that century because it marked a big milestone for the U.S. And this was a mission that was so new and the first of its kind it actually work. It also change the way people go after their changes and motivated many to follow there dreams.

student of the month

1. Why do you think you got student of the month?
She got the reward because she is very involved in school, and trys her best at everything.
2. How do you feel about getting this?
Feels like she deserved it because of all her hard work.
3. What advice would you give to students who want to become student of the month.
Some advice she gave students is to try their best and to believe they can do it.
4. What extra work did you have to complete to become to student of the month?
Had to do extra credit in order to make high grades. 
5. How did you accomplish this?
To accomplish this she had to make sure to do all of her homework and study to the best of her ability.
6. What does this mean for you?
Ellie said,"This means to me that hard work plays off."
7. How did you find out you got this?
She found out when her teacher told her.
8.  What have your friends or parents said to you once they found out?
Very proud of her, knew she put a lot of effort into it.
9. What was your first thought when you found out?
first thought of hers was,"Holy cow, i can't believe I did this."
10. Have you received a reward for getting student of the month?
She received a medal and a certificate.
11. How do you stay on top of your grades?
She checks grades daily and ask a lot of questions.
12. Would you want to be student of the month again?
She replied,"I think it would be cool, but I want others to become as happy as I am when they get the reward."
13. Was receiving student of the month worth all the work?
ellie said,"Its worth all the work because it gave me the ability to say that I can accomplished something though education."
14. How would you feel if you got student of the month again?
 She explained that she wouldn't  be as excited as the first time.
15. Did you believe you would receive student of the month?
Wasn't sure she would get it even though she put a lot of work into it.
16. Do you think every school should give out student of the month rewards?
Ellie answered,"Every school should because the students will feel more inspired."
17. What did your teachers tell you when you got this?
Her teachers told her great job and they were very proud and excited for her.
18. Where there any requirements to get this?
She said that the requirements were that they had to have all A's and had to have school spirit and had to be involved in extra activities.
19. What kind of grades did you get?
Ellie said,"I got all A's over the past few months."
20. Does this motivate you in any way?
This motivates her to become the best person she can be.

The two other sources I would want to interview is one of her teachers and one of her friends.

CE 1.4

1. 6 days
2. no more than 6 unrelated guest, no more than 10 total guest,no more than two people per bedroom, plus two. The presumption is that a house has two bedrooms in till a inspection is done. No assembly of more than six people outside, and no outside gatherings allowed after 10 pm.
3. Contains a software  that evades emissions control.
4.  Matt Cassel
5. Texas Lehigh and Samsung

Long Answers

1. 10 Houston students created a friend-of-the-court brief to explain why the state should be forced to spend more on education. After presenting their brief they argued against theses who said that Texas does spend enough and used personal stories with teachers and interviews.
2. I think that theses students are right for fighting for money for Texas education. I do believe that Texas should spend more money on education because we need to continue having students graduate with a great education and continue sending students to college with knowledge. But to be able to do theses things we need the money from the state to improve Texas education for students.
3.  think that their efforts mean a lot because by going in front go the court they are proving that students can make a difference in this. I believe that by doing this they are getting more students to go to the court and tell them that we need more money for education. I think that if their efforts don't make a difference know then they will in the future.
4. By reading this  I learned that the Texas should be forced to pay ore money for education to be able to improve what we learn and how we learn. I think that Texas failed a little bit in giving more money to education. texas need to give schools the money they need for the students education.

School Uniforms

Source: Principal, the school board, teacher

1. Why did the school board  decide to create a new district policy?
2. What change do you hope will come along with this policy?
3. How do you think the students will  react to this?
4. Why is the policy just now being introduced instead of earlier?
5. How will the uniforms differ from school to schools?
6. When will the policy start?
7. What is the cost of the uniform?
8. What's is included in the uniforms?
9. What's will happen if a uniforms is lost?
10. What will be done to enforce the policy?
11. How will this effect the students?
12. How will students purchase the uniforms?
13. What are the dress code requirements for the staff?
14. How do you think the parents will respond?
15. How do you feel about the appearance of the uniforms?
16. Will there be requirements for students wearing makeup?
17. How do you think it will effect how the students learn?
18. How does the uniform differ from guys to girls?
19. Will they ever be aloud to wear causal clothing?
20. Will students have any say and this policy?

CE 1.3

1. Yes the republican presidential debate was held yesterday evening.
2. The terminal 6 a.m to midnight  operation under the permit.
3.  Saw the need of more drivers in East Austin.
4. Say thank you, keep the trains moving,finish the Nike deal,mend fences with Texas exe,embrace the coaches.
5. The changes shape and moves, provides a visual domestication of the juxtaposition.


Long Answers
1. I think this story really informs readers and especially younger readers on what a example of authority going to far without needing to and without real evidence that the student was breaking a law. I think that the police should of question what the device was instead of directly assuming it was a explosion device and handcuffing him. The student had no time to explain that it was only  clock and it was unfair to him for being arrested and suspended for a couple days for just the fact that he brought a clock that he made to school and a teacher assumed it was a bomb without asking him what is was.
2. On one hand I do believe he was singled out due to his race because people assume different things and it does make me wonder if a person of a different race or color would have been treated that same way or not. But on my other hand I believe that the people who commit crimes aren't just a certain color or race because their of people of white skin who do bombing also and everyone around the world have crimes committed by different colors. So I also don't directly think they had singled him out because of his race or the color of his skin.
3. I think that the school districts officers who did this to the teenager shouldn't have to go to court or get fired from their job. I believe that the officers should just apologize to the young man because it was a accident and they didn't think before they took action. But I also think they should just be more careful and make the common sense to first question someone before taking action because I think that accidents like theses make people question the rights authorities have and they might start losing trust of the community if the do something like this again.
4. I don't think that the student should be compensated for what had happened because there was no injuries at all. Also I believe this because there were no serious actions taking against him while he was being arrest. The only thing I believe he should get is apology  from the officers who arrested him.

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Current Events 1.2

1. $14 but utility bill may rise to $60 a year.
2.   hands and feet
3. I think that his plan to swim across the  Pacific Ocean is inspireing and pushes human limits and is for a good causes but I just hope that he will plan it out well.
4. new sensor that enables quicker access to the phone and camera improvement
5. I would want the Hover board and I think the iPad Air 2 is the coolest.

Long Answers

1. I do think the person in this case gotten the amount of money he deserves for the excessive force that was used against him by police for resisting arrest. I believe that this is the right amount of money because leaving it at $1 million is way to much in this situation and its also better then the $60,000 cause that is to little for what he went though so 154,000 is a good amount in this incident.
 2. I think that people who may appear a little shady but are not really breaking the law shouldn't ever be arrest unless they are commenting a crime and that goes for everyone because its not fair to arrest someone just due to the fact that they look a little shady. I also believe that they do possibly deserve a award of money if it was a serious situation that caused them some kind of injurey because the police used excessive force.
3. I have to thoughts on if they should get money, one of my thoughts is that they should get a small amount of money if they are in this kind of situation because they police used way to much force on someone who didn't even commit  crime because if I was in that event i would want money too. But I also think that they shouldn't really get money if no excessive force was used in their arrest so if they weren't hurt or injured in any way the shouldn't really get a award because it was just a accident.
4. Even if they have a criminal record it doesn't mean they were committing any kind of crime in that moment. And they do deserve a award if they are arrested with excessive force by police even if they do have a criminal  record cause they weren't doing anything against the law in that case.
5. I think that anything above $1 million is to much if they victim wasn't killed. I think this because if the victim didn't even get hurt at all then they really don't deserve a large mount of money because it was just a mistunderstanding and no damage is down to you.   But if they victim is seriouly hurt for example if they are left in a coma after this accident then they should get a award that can go up to $1 million or maybe even a little more. I think this because if they are seriouly hurt then the family deserves a good amount of money for the medical bills or treatment that may be needed.
6. I honestly don't think there could ever be a money amount that is ever enough for a family who lost a love one because its not as if that person could be brought back to life. I would say that anything more then a billion dollars is way to much but anything else is fine because it was a accident that ended up with a innocent person being killed by excessive force and if one of my love ones died then I would want as much money possible for my family. But they should be given a large amount of money that is enough to support the family for a while.
7. I do believe that we are seeing this more and more in society today and its just to common where police use excessive force against innocent people. I think that police are people to and people make mistakes sometimes because its a human thing to do but mistakes like this are happening more common and they should really only arrest someone if they have cold hard proof that they had committed a crime.

News Ethics

Title The Media's Foul Ball
 Summery In 2003, the Chicago Cubs and the Florida Marlins were playing against each other in hopes of winning the game. The game took a bad turn for a fan who attempted to catch a foul ball but ended up deflecting the ball causing Cub fans to go after him. The media went wild on who this mystery fan was and caused news papers all around to decided if it was right to find out his identity or not. Soon after the media exploded on this a editor on the Sun-Times relieved the mysteries fans names causing questions as if the media went to far or not.
Opinion Given the potential dangers to the man I believe that he should  not be identified by the media at all because it is taking away his privacy and is putting him in harms way. I think this because if the media  identifies the man it would cause more harm then good to him due to the fact that if someone knows his name then they could possibly get ahold of his personal information and give out his information as to his work place, his home, his family and then it would not only be the man in harms way but the people he is connected to also. If the media ever did such a thing like this it would push him back into the the news and take away his freedom.

Title A Suspects "Confession"
Summery In 1996, JonBenet Ramsey was found found dead after she was beaten and strangled to death in Colorado. After years of searching for the killer a  Journalism professor Michael Tracy alerted autherities with information relating with the murder that was sent by email from John Mark Karr. Karr was then arrested in Thailand but the request of U.S officials and later confessed that he did indeed murdered JonBenet Ramsey.
Opinion My answer to the question do you break a confidence with your source if you think it can solve a murder or even protect children all the way around the world is yes I believe if you have information that could help out a investigation then you should break confidence with your source. I think that Michael Tracy did the right thing as to reporting it to the proper authorities when he found the email that could help solve a investigation.

Title Publishing Drunk Driver's Photos
Summary On December 31, 1997, The Andersons News had a banner saying "But please don't drink and drive and risk having your picture published." The editor of the newspaper Don White explained that the newspaper would start publishing drunk driver's photo if they would convicted of drunk driving. This was in hopes of reducing the amount of drunk drivers. Soon he started posted the driver's photos more weekly and under each picture was the persons information.
Opinion I don't believe this is a appropriate policy for a newspaper because the newspaper didn't explain if the person was a 1st offender so someone who had done this before and I think thats unfair. I also think this is wrong because they put out the drivers personal information without permission from the driver and I believe  thats  a volition of someones privacy. Overall i think that the newspaper shouldn't have down this because its crossing the line between stopping DWI and taking away someones privacy.

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ELECTION 2016 

Cruz repudiates Obama, wows Fort Worth crowd 

Stockyards pledge to undo president’s legacy pulls 2,000 out of seats. 

ByJonathan Tilove jtilove@statesman.com  

   FORT WORTH — U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz brought an enthusiastic crowd of about 2,000 supporters to their feet Thursday at the Stockyards with his recitation of how he would set about undoing President Barack Obama’s legacy on a very busy first day in the White House. 

   The crowd never sat down. 

   It would be a day to rescind “illegal” executive orders, “rip to shreds this catastrophic Iranian nuclear deal,” launch a criminal probe of Planned Parenthood, begin the process of moving the U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem and instruct the Justice Department and the IRS that “the persecution of religious liberty ends today,” the Texas Republican said. 

   “That’s day one,” Cruz said. “There are 365 days in a year, four years in a presidential term, four years in a second term. At the end of the eighth year, there are going to be a lot of newspaper reporters and journalists and editors to check themselves into therapy.” 

   Presenting his candidacy as a crusade to save America as “the last, best hope for mankind,” Cruz closed his remarks with the declaration, “We are not prepared to go quietly into the night.” 

   The crowd roared its approval, and then many surged toward the candidate, surrounding him as, one by one, family unit by family unit, he shook hands, signed books and had photos taken. 

   For Cruz, it was an exhilarating launch to a day of campaigning for president in his home state that would take him to an afternoon Cruz Country Rally in Tyler and a Kingwood Tea Party Freedom Rally in the evening. 

   Cruz is the man to beat in the March 1 Texas primary, which has the second-largest cache of delegates, behind only California. 

   The Texas primary is relatively early in the process, coming on the heels of South Carolina’s primary — the fourth contest after the Iowa and Nevada caucuses and the New Hampshire primary. 

   “I think Ted Cruz is going to win Texas,” said state Rep. Matt Rinaldi, R-Irving, a tea party legislator who opened Thursday’s rally and who fashions himself a lawmaker in Cruz’s uncompromisingly conservative mold. “I think he is going to win in Iowa.” 

   The swift dominance of Donald Trump in the GOP race has, for the time being, overshadowed Cruz’s capacity to be the most provocative tribune of discontent. 

   But Cruz has sought from the start to make Trump an ally, not an adversary, and Cruz and Trump — at Cruz’s invitation — will lead what promises to be a huge rally against the Iran nuclear agreement outside the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, the day before the Senate votes on it. 

   Mike Jones, a Glen Rose veterinarian who ran unsuccessfully for state representative and who has started a grassroots committee supporting Cruz’s presidential campaign in Texas, said the New York mogul had successfully unleashed a national discussion on such issues as immigration. In the long run, it is a space that Cruz will more skillfully fill after voters learn that Trump is neither truly a Republican nor a conservative, he said. 

   “This is the candidate to get enthusiastic about,” an invigorated Jones said after Cruz spoke. 

   For Cruz, the Texas primary is a bit of an ace in the hole. 

   It’s a huge and expensive state to campaign in, and Cruz has an on-the-ground political army he built for his Senate campaign and has nurtured ever since. 

   As of this week, Trump spokeswoman Hope Hicks said in an email, “We do not have a Texas operation.” 

   “I think when Donald Trump comes to Texas, he is going to find that Ted Cruz has a pretty good beachhead here,” said Jim Henson, director of the Texas Politics Project at the University of Texas. “A significant share of the people that are attracted to Donald Trump for his iconoclastic approach to campaigning and politics are already predisposed toward Ted Cruz.” 

   Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, who was campaigning in Texas this week and who in February was running neck-and-neck with Cruz in the UT/Texas Tribune poll, has seen his fortunes wilt since Trump’s entry. 

   “Scott Walker is rapidly becoming, much to his chagrin, a cautionary tale of peaking too soon and getting caught up in the crosscurrents of Trump’s rise and the media storm around Trump,” Henson said. 

   But, Henson said, “I do not think that Donald Trump is hurting Ted Cruz in Texas. Trump is talking about the failure of government, of the establishment, this notion of American decline. This is all consistent with what Cruz wants this primary to be about. If those are the terms of the political discussion, Ted Cruz is fine with that.” 

   “People are looking for a fighter; they want someone storming the temple, knocking over the money-changers’ tables,” said Brendan Steinhauser, an Austin-based Republican political consultant who played a formative role in creating the national tea party movement. 

   In the end, Steinhauser thinks most conservative voters will pass on Trump: “I think they are going to settle on a legitimate contender like a Cruz, a Rubio, a Walker.” 

   And, Cruz said at Thursday’s rally, “I’ll tell you the difference between me and the other fine candidates on that debate stage. With me, when I tell you I’m going to do something, I’m going to do exactly what I say.
Title Cruz repudiates Obama, wows Fort Worth crowd found in The American Statesman
This article is driven by timeliness news value because the event took place Thursday so it happened very recently.

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COMMUNITY NEWS 

   TRAVIS COUNTY 

   AUSTIN 

   Austin Water offers rebates 

   Austin Water is accepting applications through Sept. 30 for WaterWise Rainscape and WaterWise Landscape rebates. 

   Homeowners and schools could receive up to $500 for installing rainscapes that prevent runoff and reduce the need for additional irrigation; the minimum installation size is 100 square feet. Visit austintexas.gov/department/   waterwise-rainscape-rebate for more details. 

   Austin Water customers who replace healthy grass with native plant beds and permeable hardscapes may be eligible for up to $1,750 through the WaterWise Landscape rebate program. Residential properties could receive $35 for every 100 square feet; at least 500 square feet must be converted to be eligible for rebates. See austintexas.gov/department/water-  wise-landscape-rebate  .    — AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF Title Austin Water offers rebate found on The American StatesmanThis article is driven by the proximity news value because of its location taking place in the community and city I live in which is Austin.

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SOUTH CAROLINA CHURCH SHOOTINGS 

Shooting suspect to face death penalty 

Killing of 9 people in a church called ‘the ultimate crime.’ 

By Meg Kinnard andJeffrey Collins Associated Press 

   CHARLESTON, S.C. — The white man accused of killing nine black churchgoers in what authorities said was a racially motivated crime during Bible study will face a death penalty trial, even though not all the victims’ families agree with capital punishment, a prosecutor said Thursday. 

   Solicitor Scarlett Wilson said Thursday that some crimes are so heinous they require the most serious punishment the state can give. 

   “This was the ultimate crime, and justice from our state calls for the ultimate punishment,” Wilson said, reading a three-minute statement outside her Charleston office. She took no questions. 

   Wilson filed paperwork saying she would seek the death penalty against 21-year-old Dylann Roof a few hours before her statement. Her reasons: More than two people were killed and others’ lives were put at risk. 

   Roof is charged under U.S. hate crime laws as well, and federal prosecutors haven’t decided if they will also seek the death penalty. Federal authorities have said Roof wrote online of fomenting racial violence and used racial slurs in a personal manuscript in which he decried integration. 

   Survivors also told police he used racial insults during the attack. 

   Wilson said she understands the desire of some victims’ families to forgive Roof and that some do not believe in the death penalty, but she said forgiveness doesn’t eliminate the consequences of Roof’s actions. 

   “Making such a weighty decision is an awesome responsibility,” Wilson said. “People who have already been victimized should not bear the burden of making the decisions on behalf of an entire community. They shouldn’t have to weigh the concerns of other people. They shouldn’t have to consider the facts of the case.” 

   Roof’s lawyers did not respond to Wilson’s decision. 

   Thursday’s motion doesn’t guarantee the case goes to trial. In a number of other murder cases in South Carolina, solicitors have filed notices to seek the death penalty and used them as bargaining chips to get a defendant to plead guilty in exchange for life in prison. Roof’s lawyers said in federal court July 31 that he would have been willing to plead guilty to the hate crimes charges, but he wanted to wait to see if prosecutors would want to put him to death. 

   In her filing, Wilson said she intends to present evidence on Roof’s mental state, adult and juvenile criminal record and other conduct, as well as his apparent lack of remorse for the killings. 

   Roof faces state charges including nine murder counts in the June 17 slayings at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church. He is expected in court again on those charges in October. 

   Public pressure and media attention on the case likely made it impossible for Wilson not to seek the death penalty, said Colin Miller, an expert on criminal law at the University of South Carolina School of Law. 

   “This has to be understood as part of a continuum,” he said. “In this case, likely this was viewed as the only acceptable path that was to be taken by the solicitor.” 

   Relatives of shooting victims spoke out at Roof’s first court appearance, saying they forgave him for his actions and prayed God would have mercy on him. 

   Wilson said she has met many times with survivors and families of shooting victims. She said their desires played into her ultimate decision, but that she appreciated that they all respected her decision to seek the death penalty. 

   “It’s definitely something a solicitor will take into account — the wishes of the family and what they desire in terms of how the case is going to proceed,” Miller said. 

   Andy Savage, a Charleston attorney who represents some of the survivors and victims’ families, commended Wilson for considering his clients’ thoughts on whether Roof should face death. Some of his clients may oppose the death penalty for religious reasons but also understood the decision was up to the state, Savage said.
Title Shooting suspect to face death penalty found on The American Statesman
This article is driven by prominence news value and it is news worthy because it was a tragic event in which a white man who was said was racially motivated went into a mostly black church and killed 9 black churchgoers which caused a outrage not only in the community but theses all over the United States who heard about the event.

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NEW DETAILS TEXAS TRUANCY LAWS 

Skipping school no longer a crime 

New state law clears thousands of criminal records for truancy. 

By Claire Osborn cosborn@statesman.com  

   More than 2,000 criminal records of people charged with truancy vanished from a computer screen with a push of a button Thursday in Williamson County Justice of the Peace Bill Gravell’s courtroom. 

   Under a new state law, it is no longer a crime to skip school in Texas. 

   The law that took effect Tuesday changed truancy from a Class C misdemeanor to a civil matter. 

   That means students no longer face hefty fines or possibly jail or time at a juvenile detention facility for ditching classes. 

   It also means children and adults who have criminal records because of truancy will have their records expunged, meaning not only are the cases dropped, they won’t show up in court records. 

   Gravell asked Terra Tucker, a policy analyst for state Sen. John Whitmire, who helped get the bill passed, to press the delete button on Gravell’s computer at a court hearing the judge held to announce the expunction. 

   “This is a historic day,” said Gravell. “We are going to remove over 2,000 courts cases because it is the right thing to do for the kids of Texas.” 

   When he deleted the criminal records, some up to 20 years old, he also deleted $70,000 owed in outstanding fines and the suspension orders for 87 driver’s licenses in his precinct. 

   Gravell’s precinct covers Georgetown, northern Round Rock, Jarrell and Florence. 

   All four justices of the peace in Williamson County are expunging thousands of truancy records. Two of the five justices of the peace in Travis County who returned a request for comment were doing the same thing, according to their clerks. 

   The previous law, which has been in effect since the mid-1990s, made skipping school punishable by a fine of up to $500, the possible suspension of a driver’s license and, in some cases, jail for those ages 17 and older. 

   Under the new law, a judge has a variety of options, including ordering a juvenile to get mentoring, go to tutoring or perform community service. 

   School districts also have more opportunities to help students because they are no longer required to report as truant a student who has three unexcused absences in a four-week period, said Morgan Craven, director of the school-to-prison pipeline project for Texas Appleseed, a nonprofit justice organization. 

   Many students skip class because of personal problems or family issues, said Craven, who was at Gravell’s expunction hearing Thursday. 

   ”We have kids who are homeless or they have transportation issues or chronic health issues,” she said.
Title Skipping school no longer a crime found on The American Statesman
This article is driven by impact news value because of how how it effects the students who do skip school that now no longer  committed crime by doing so.


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Hungary allows migrants on train 

Decision to take them to camps met with outrage. 

By Pablo Gorondi and Shawn Pogatchnik Associated Press 

   BUDAPEST, HUNGARY — Thousands of people desperate to reach Western Europe rushed into a Budapest train station Thursday after police ended a two-day blockade, setting off a wave of anger and confusion as hundreds shoved their way onto a waiting train. 

   But instead of taking them to prosperous Germany, where they hope to gain asylum, it tried to drop them off at a Hungarian camp for asylum seekers. 

   After the overloaded train halted at Bicske, site of one of the country’s five camps for asylum seekers, one man threw his wife and infant son onto the tracks, screaming in Arabic, “We won’t move from here!” Police surrounded the prone family, pulling the husband away and handcuffing him as he wailed. 

   Other migrants refused to budge, shouting their outrage and waving tickets they had purchased to Germany and Austria. 

   The scene of desperation was just one of many that unfolded Thursday as tempers flared in Hungary’s war of wills with the migrants, a showdown with consequences for the entire continent. 

   The nation’s anti-immigrant prime minister, Viktor Orban, warned that he intends to make his country’s borders an impassible fortress against new arrivals as his government struggled to coax its thousands of unwanted visitors away from the Budapest transportation hub that has become a squalid refugee camp for people fleeing war and poverty in the Middle East, Asia and Africa. 

   At a meeting Thursday in Brussels, Obran and European Union leaders hotly debated the question of how to manage the crisis. Orban’s chief of staff, Janos Lazar, said 160,000 migrants had reached Hungary this year, 90,000 of them in the past two months alone. 

   “We Hungarians are full of fear,” Orban said at a news conference, warning that the acceptance of so many Muslims from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere would erode Europe’s Christian bedrock. 

   Orban confirmed his government’s plan to send at least 3,000 troops to Hungary’s southern border with Serbia, where police patrols, razor-wire coils and a 13-foot fence are already in place to deter new arrivals transiting through the non-EU member.
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Syrian toddler’s death puts crisis in new light 

ByLaura King and GlenJohnson LosAngelesTimes 

   ISTANBUL — The little boy on the beach had a name, and it was Aylan. 

   Searing images of the drowned Syrian toddler, his body washed ashore after the raft carrying his refugee family capsized off the Turkish coast, pricked consciences worldwide and galvanized passionate debate over the international response to the enormous tide of migrants arriving on Europe’s shores. 

   On Thursday — a day after photographs of the then-anonymous child being carried dead from the surf went viral online 

   — a fuller portrait emerged of a family rendered desperate by fighting in their hometown, Kobani, and their slender hope of finding refuge in Canada. 

   The family was called Kurdi, and 3-year-old Aylan, sometimes called by the Kurdish variant Alan, drowned along with his 5-year-old brother, Galip, and their mother, Reyhana. The child’s father, Abdullah, survived to break the terrible news by phone to relatives at home and abroad, plunging even their loss-racked Syrian hometown into mourning. 

   “My kids were the most beautiful children in the world, wonderful. They wake me up every morning to play with them. They are all gone now,” he said Thursday as he awaited the release of their bodies from a morgue. 

   The haunting episode put an unforgettably human face to the tragedies at sea that have killed more than 2,500 migrants and refugees this year, many of them Syrians fleeing a civil war that has raged since 2011. Tens of thousands more are on an arduous trek across Europe, making their way through fields and cities and across barbed-wire border fences to try to reach one of the wealthier northern nations such as Germany or Sweden. 

   Propelled by the grim and graphic images, the story of Aylan and his family was front-page news across Europe, provoking particular soul-searching in Britain, which has taken in only a fraction of the 800,000 migrants Germany expects to receive this year. The London-based Independent published the pictures, along with a strongly worded editorial headlined: “Somebody’s Child.” 

   “If these extraordinarily powerful images of a dead Syrian child washed up on a beach don’t change Europe’s attitude to refugees, what will?” it asked. 

   Aid workers, even those faced daily with harrowing scenes of hardship, groped for words to characterizeWednesday’s tragedy at sea. Yet such sinkings have become commonplace; more than 150 people drowned off the coast of Libya last week. 

   “It is unacceptable that we have children dying like this in the 21st century,” said Lado Gvilava, the Turkey chief of mission for the International Organization for Migration. “It’s hard to see how this can be allowed to happen.”Title Syrian toddlers death puts crisis in new light found on the American Statesman
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