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Convention a Local Affair CMYK New shoes, From around new attitude the county Parents and kids ready Kielbasa Festival, Bark for Life, for school with new kicks Hayfield Summer Festival LOCAL, 3A CLICK, 1C 772323 The Times Leader WILKES-BARRE, PA timesleader.com MONDAY,AUGUST27, 2012 50¢ SPORTS SHOWCASE Tempests stir GOP convention LITTLE LEAGUE Tropical Storm Isaac and controversy over rape and WORLD SERIES abortion positions cloud the political event. Noriatsu Osaka hit three homers and tripled, and By DAVID ESPO Japan limited Tennes- AP Special Correspondent see’s potent lineup to two DON CAREY/ THE TIMES LEADER TAMPA, Fla. — His Republican National Convention hits in a 12-2 victory Sun- Changes await students, teacher and parents as the new school year is set to get under way. Nancy, Annah, 9, and Elena,11, Giraldi listen to second-grade teacher Nicole Oravic as they check curtailed by a threatened hurricane, Mitt Romney con- day in the Little League out Fairview Elementary School on Thursday. ceded Sunday that fresh controversy over rape and abor- World Series title game. tion is harming his party and he accused Democrats of Starter Kotaro Kiyomiya trying to exploit it for political gain. struck out eight in four “It really is sad, isn’t it, with all the issues that America innings and added an RBI faces, for the Obama campaign to con- single for the boys from NOT AS EASY AS tinue to stoop to such a low level,” said Tokyo. 1B Romney, struggling to sharpen the presidential election focus instead on a weak economy and 8.3 percent nation- al unemployment. ABC ANYMORE His comments came as aides and party officials hurriedly rewrote the NATIONAL LEAGUE Romney script for the convention, cut from four days to three because of the threat PHILLIES 4 posed by approaching Tropical Storm Isaac. The storm New challenges await in new school year is forecast to gain hurricane strength as it churns NATIONALS 1 through the Gulf of Mexico but to pass well west of the convention city. By MARK GUYDISH [email protected] METS 2 The revised schedule included a symbolic 10-minute session on Monday in a nearly empty hall, during which ASTROS 1 ame fluorescent lights, same color paint on the walls, same tiles on officials intend to launch a debt clock set to zero. The the hall floors, same pressure to pass standardized tests. political objective is to show how much the government BREWERS 7 The return to school in the next two weeks may feel familiar to borrows throughout the convention week. Officials did not rule out further changes because of PIRATES 0 many students, but the similarities for teachers and administrators the weather, and sidestepped when asked what might are strictly on the surface, a veneer of continuity hiding an upheaval happen if, as seemed possible, the storm made landfall in AMERICAN LEAGUE S of budget and curriculum. YANKEES 4 SeeCAMPAIGN, Page 8A INDIANS 2 The tectonic shifts in- problem, according to clude: local administrators, •Elimination of the is districts must teach IL BASEBALL Pennsylvania System of to the existing stan- SWB YANKS 6 School Assessment tests in dards while introduc- Convention 11th grade. An almost inevi- ing the new ones. IRON PIGS 2 table blemish on district •Implementation academic achievements of a new teacher eval- when compared to PSSA re- uation system that sults in earlier grades, the dramatically reshapes math and reading tests for the process, changing alocal affair juniors are being replaced the ratings from a sim- INSIDE by … ple satisfactory/un- ANEWS: Local 3A •Implementation of the satisfactory to a four- Nation & World 5A Keystone exams. This year, tier rating that relies State senator from Berwick and other area Obituaries 6A all 11th-grade students must on student test results residents are in Tampa, Fla., for GOP’s big event. Editorials 7A take the tests in algebra I, and dozens of teach- Emily Marchase, 8, of Mountain Top, and BSPORTS: 1B biology and literature (with Tyler Stolpe, 8, of White Haven, get familiar ing qualities judged more subjects to come). Ini- with Fairview Elementary School. through a standar- By BILL O’BOYLE CCLICK: 1C tially, Keystone test results dized rubric. [email protected] Birthdays 3C will be used instead of PSSA 11th-grade tests to •Anew “Opportunity Scholarship Tax Credit” WILKES-BARRE – State Sen. John Gordner is looking Television 4C determine if a school meets federally mandated program that called for the creation of a “low forward to attending his first Republican National Con- Crossword/Horoscope 5C “Adequate Yearly Progress” toward the goal of all achieving schools” list – six Luzerne County vention this week in Tampa, Fla. DCLASSIFIED: 1D students scoring proficient or better in the tests. schools made the list this year –and allows stu- Gordner, R-Berwick, finished fourth in the By 2017 students will need to pass Keystones to dents who live near those schools to win scholar- 2012 race for delegate, but one of the top three graduate. ships used to attend other schools, including pri- ELECTION dropped out. and Gordner was appointed to •Field test of new state writing exams in vate institutions. The money comes through do- fill the vacancy. grades three, four and five. These are an early, pal- nations from businesses, which in turn get state With that designation, Gordner gets to pable consequence of the implementation of the tax credits. vote at the convention and he will be re- “common core standards” on math and “English •Amoratorium on the state’s “Plan Con” sys- quired to attend many meetings at all times of the day and WEATHER Language Arts” over the next several years, a set tem for reimbursing some of the cost of school night. of new curriculum standards adopted by 45 states Aidan Martin. Mostly cloudy, to ensure all students learn essential skills. The SeeLOCALS, Page 8A showers and thunderstorms. SeeSCHOOL, Page 8A High 78 Low 65 Details, Page 6B >> THIS FESTIVAL GOES TO 11: After the down- next horrid, disgusting feat? Clean out my sock drawer. THINGS home, country-rock vibe of The Peach Festival, Montage Mountain is ready to welcome in another day of eyeball- >> A NEW ERA: Afootball season unlike any other begins melting, chainsaw-wielding, head-banging acts when the aptly this Saturday in State College. The Penn State Nittany Lions YOU NEED named Rockstar Energy Drink Uproar Festival hits the stage will take the field, but it will be Bill O’Brien and not Joe Pa- at 1p.m. Tuesday. The Toyota Pavilion has already played host terno who leads them out of the tunnel. There will be names TO KNOW to the Vans Warped Tour and the Rockstar Mayhem on the uniforms and the knowledge no bowl game awaits the Festival earlier in the year, so it’s a wonder it’s team at year’s end. The game, the season and the future of not been pulverized by now. Penn State football begins at noon against Ohio University. 5THIS WEEK ESPN has the coverage. >> EWWWW. YUCK: Pity poor Mike Rowe. The TV person- >> ORANGES ARE ORANGE …: Poetry and rhyme go together >> ELEPHANT DAYS OF SUMMER: Hey, political ality started off as a clean-cut QVC pitchman, and now spends his like cats and hats, muffets and tuf- junkies, do you want to do an experiment? When the GOP fets, and foxesand sockses. That is, National Convention begins today, watch how the various TV time cleaning porta potties in Poughkeepsie. For which he is until now. This Saturday is No Rhyme networks cover it. On Fox News, you will see sun-drenched (Nor Reason) Day, a celebration of all images of Mitt Romney holding an American flag and walking paid handsomely. … OK, maybe we shouldn’t feel so sorry for things rhymeless in the English lan- in slow motion through a wheat field – all accompanied by a him. The host of Discovery’s guage. If Sylvia Plath or Dylan Thomas stirring Aaron Copland soundtrack. Switch over to MSNBC, “Dirty Jobs” will be up to his had to ply their craft using the words and you’ll get grainy surveillance footage of Romney watch- elbows in snakes and toads bulb or purple, they’d have ended up ing TV with an Amish guy to the theme from “The Exorcist.” this week when a new in the bad poet’s society with William The political theater gets off to a delayed start, with a “soft” episode of the show airs McGonagall, who, rumor has it, once 6 0981510011 opening today. The “action" starts Tuesday and runs through Wednesday at 8 p.m. His injured himself trying to rhyme the Thursday. word “scalp.” (That’s not true.) K PAGE 2A MONDAY, AUGUST27, 2012 ➛ timesleader.com THE TIMES LEADER www.timesleader.com Hurricane Irene among worst Pa. storms DETAILS LOTTERY MIDDAY DRAWING Though Irene followed by Lee tered, affecting 428,000 of the DAILY NUMBER – 3-5-2 had devastating “one-two company’s 1.4 million custom- ers and bearing a price tag of BIG 4 – 6-9-3-1 punch” in 2011. $32 million to cover overtime QUINTO – 0-9-3-3-6 for employees working double TREASURE HUNT shifts, equipment replacement 02-16-25-26-28 By PETER JACKSON and other expenses. NIGHTLY DRAWING Associated Press The experience under- HARRISBURG — An April scored the need to improve DAILY NUMBER – 7-5-1 flood, an August hurricane, a communications with custom- BIG 4 – 8-5-7-8 tropical storm in September. ers and resulted in changes QUINTO – 0-9-3-3-6 Could Nature throw anything that included expanding the CASH 5 else at Rob and Karyn Bren- capacity of the company’s call 23-24-25-39-41 kacs and their eastern Penn- center and hiring a vendor to sylvania neighbors? help manage calls during peak HARRISBURG – No player The couple and their three periods, said spokesman Joe matched all five winning children were forced from Nixon.
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