GALVESTON — The state accountability rating assigned to L.A. Morgan Elementary School improved to recognized after Galveston public school district officials successfully appealed a lower rating of acceptable.
The elementary school was rated acceptable because one subpopulation failed on one test to meet the standards for a recognized rating — the second highest in the state’s system.
The new rating means the district now has three recognized elementary schools.
The school’s teary-eyed principal told trustees last week she was pleased and proud of the accomplishment.
“We were almost a low-performing school five years ago,” she said. “We are so excited and we are very pleased and proud. We set our goals five years ago to be exemplary, and we’re on that road.”
— Rhiannon Meyers
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UTMB Fundraiser Postponed
GALVESTON — “Celebrate the Cure,” a fundraising event planned for the University of Texas Medical Branch Cancer Center on Sunday in the home of state Rep. Craig and Melissa Eiland, has been postponed due to Hurricane Ike.
The event will be rescheduled in early spring.
For more information, contact Sheila Lidstone at 409-747-1904.
— From staff reports
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Mainland Branch Of NAACP To Have Election
TEXAS CITY —The Mainland Branch of NAACP will elect officers and at-large members of the executive committee from 11:45 a.m. to 5:45 p.m. Nov. 3 in the Alamo Room at the Nessler Center, 2010 Fifth Ave. N.
Voters must be members of good standing of the Mainland Branch 30 days before the election. Identification is required.
Call 409-935-5282.
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Classes Resume At UTMB
GALVESTON — More than a thousand students returned to classes at the University of Texas Medical Branch on Monday, a month and a week after most fled the island because of Hurricane Ike.
A total of 460 first- and second-year medical students, 450 biomedical graduate students, as well as nursing and health professions students, gathered at UTMB’s Levin Hall at noon, where they were welcomed back by Dr. Garland Anderson, UTMB provost and dean of medicine.
