C M C M Y K Y K TRIPLE THREAT TWENTY INJURED Tigers’ Cabrera may win triple crown, B1 Train slams into big rig in Calif., A7 Serving Oregon’s South Coast Since 1878 TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2012 theworldlink.com I 75¢ Schools: State gets an F in communication BY JESSIE HIGGINS student success, and take the place He wasn’t instructed on how to intended for the Bandon School her she must use data from the The World of No Child Left Behind. write the compact until May, with a District. 2010/11 school year to set improve- But the three local districts say July 1 deadline to submit. Now, the compacts take into ment goals, a year in which her dis- Coquille, Bandon and Port their “low goals” are a result of The compacts initially com- account only third-grade test trict scored 10 percent higher in Orford/Langlois school districts poor communication from the prised data from the previous five scores and graduation rates. math. Bandon School District had join 66 other Oregon districts that state, and a hurried planning years, Sweeney said. The state “They really rushed us through the same issue with their compact, must set higher academic achieve- process. Two of the three districts required districts to measure it,”said Chris Nichols, the superin- and has made the adjustment, ment goals for the upcoming said they were told after the fact attendance, test scores, whether tendent for Port Orford/Langlois Buche said. school year, per the state’s order. that they used data from the wrong students were on track to graduate, Schools. “They said it was OK; it Nichols said the state changed According to the Oregon academic year. The third district’s graduation rates and number of was a work in progress. Then, all of its testing and scoring methods Department of Education, about problem arose from a typo and graduated students enrolled in a sudden, we’re setting low goals.” since the 2010/11 year, making the one in three Oregon districts set mathematical error. some kind of tertiary education. Nichols said she used third- test more difficult and lowering unacceptably low goals for high “The whole thing was thrown at The state used those compre- grade test scores from the 2011/12 scores statewide. She fears basing school graduation rates and third- us toward the end of the year,”said hensive compacts to apply for its school year to set her district-wide her school’s goals off the 2010/11 grade reading and math scores in Tim Sweeney, the superintendent waiver from No Child Left Behind, improvement goals. Last year, the scores will make them impossible their first Academic Achievement for Coquille School District. “We which it was granted July 19. district tested at 82 percent math to attain using the new methods. Compacts. did the best we could.” “My understanding is, then the proficiency. She set a goal of 85 Each district told to increase The compacts represent Ore- Sweeney said he first caught wind state decided that was too compre- percent for this year. their goals has until Oct. 15 to gon’s new system for measuring of the proposed compacts in March. hensive,”said Diane Buche, super- She said the state is now telling resubmit their compacts. Judge Down by the boardwalk sentences Perez for kidnapping BY TIM NOVOTNY The World COQUILLE — Convicted of the July kidnapping of two young girls, Robert Perez will spend at least the 1 next 13 ⁄2 years in prison for his crime. The 32-year-old North Bend man was back in a Coos County courtroom Monday morning to be sentenced on a variety of charges, but the biggest were related to the kidnapping of the two girls, 12 and 13 at the time, who he had taken to various spots against their will on the evening of July 9, before police arrived and saved them. When all was said and done at his sentencing hearing, the total number of months in prison reached 212. For 164 of those months, which comes to 13 years and eight months, Perez must serve every single day. By Alysha Beck, The World Bruce Norton casts his line off the Coos Bay Boardwalk on a mild Monday afternoon.“It's relaxing and peaceful out here,”Norton said. Norton didn’t catch any salmon A jury of nine women and three 1 men convicted Monday,but says he hooked a 34⁄2-inch salmon last week.Fall is here,but you wouldn’t know it by the weather Monday — the high hit 72 degrees.The rest of the week Perez last month is supposed to be nearly as nice with highs in the mid-60s. on two counts of second-degree kidnapping, four counts of coer- cion, two counts Wild salmon can lead to fish hatchery success of furnishing liquor to a minor and harassment. Robert Perez BY JEFF BARNARD in Johnson Creek in the Salmon years. They also found that male tected by the Endangered Species According to Sentenced The Associated Press River Basin in Idaho from 1998 fish raised in hatcheries typically List. While scientists have urged court testimony, through 2010 — more than two full had a lower rate of success repro- practices to change, change has the girls were having a sleepover GRANTS PASS — New research generations. The commission and ducing than wild males. been slow, and hatcheries produc- when one of the mothers gave has found that a hatchery using the Nez Perce Tribe have long been “This helps us realize that sup- ing salmon only from wild brood Perez, a neighbor, permission to wild salmon to spawn the next gen- strong advocates for using hatch- plementation programs can be stock are rare. It is more difficult take them to a gas station to buy eration can help rebuild endan- eries to rebuild endangered salmon effective at boosting populations and more expensive to go into the cigarettes for her. But Perez didn’t gered salmon runs without passing runs, a practice questioned by that are endangered while having wild to collect fish for spawning bring them home. on genetic problems that threaten some scientists. very limited genetic impact on wild than it is to wait for fish to swim The girls testified they were driv- future returns. Genetic sampling from 7,726 populations,” said co-author into the hatchery. en around in his green minivan and The study, published Monday in adult fish returning to spawn Shawn Narum, lead geneticist for David Noakes, professor of fish- forced to drink whisky, which he the online edition of the scientific showed that fish born and raised in the commission. eries at Oregon State University referred to as “grandpa’s medicine.” journal Molecular Ecology, con- the hatchery from parents taken Hatcheries have long been used and senior scientist at the Oregon Police rescued the girls, unin- trasts earlier research suggesting from the wild produced adult fish to make up for lost habitat, such as Hatchery Research Center, was not jured, after he had taken them to that hatcheries themselves geneti- that returned from the ocean at a dams blocking access to spawning part of the study. He said the Ferry Road Park. cally select for fish that go on to fail higher rate — an average of 4.69 grounds, and the vast majority of research was well done and pub- once they are released into the times higher — than fish spawned salmon in the Columbia basin are lished in a highly respected journal. Deputy District Attorney Stephen wild. naturally in the river. When those born in hatcheries. But it eventual- He noted that earlier research Petty said the kidnapping convic- Researchers from the Columbia returning fish spawned naturally in ly became clear that traditional suggesting hatcheries produce tions carried Measure 11 sentences of River Intertribal Fish Commission the river, they produced offspring hatchery practices were one of the inferior fish was done with a differ- 70 months each, which will be and the Nez Perce Tribe tracked an that returned at an average rate of problems that have led to 13 runs of served consecutively for a total of 140 months in prison. He said Perez endangered run of Chinook salmon 1.32 times higher over two brood salmon and steelhead being pro- SEE HATCHERY | A10 also was convicted of two counts of coercion for forcing the girls to drink alcohol, and two more counts of coercion for forcing the girls to lie down. He was sentenced to serve an Judge halts Pa.’s new voter ID requirement additional 24 months,consecutively, for each of the coercion convictions, with the two counts of each being BY MARC LEVY However, Simpson based his some registered voters to get a President Barack Obama in inde- run concurrently. The Associated Press decision on guidelines given to him state-issued photo ID. pendent polls. As a result, the state days ago by the high court justices, The 6-month-old law — now has been virtually empty of presi- An additional 24 months were tacked on for his conviction on an HARRISBURG, Pa. — A judge and it could easily be the final word among the nation’s toughest — has dential TV ads and off the candi- unrelated burglary case. Earlier this postponed Pennsylvania’s contro- on the law just five weeks before sparked a divisive debate over vot- dates’ beaten paths to more con- tested states in recent weeks. year, Perez broke into a Coos Coun- versial voter identification require- the Nov. 6 election. ing rights and become a high-pro- ty home and stole a bicycle, Petty ment today, ordering the state not One lawyer for the plaintiffs file political issue in the contest Pollsters say an identification requirement could mean that fewer said.