Downtown merchants will continue handing out entry forms for a Valentine drawing until Feb. 14, with the winners receiving a $50 gift certificate for one of the participating businesses.

Only about 25 tickets still remain for the Feb. 17concertbyJasonBoland and the Stragglers at the Aztec Theater in downtown Albany.

Local school officials have been given the raw data from last year’s STAAR testing and other determining factors, but they are still waiting for the Texas Education Agency to announce the formula that will be used to determine the district and campus scores for the federal school report card. Normally, the letter grade system that is based on test scores for grade 3-8 and End of Course test scores, graduation rates, and College and Career Readiness are announced in August or September of each year.