A Pasadena teacher, who instructed her students last spring to write highly charged letters to state legislators about proposed education budget cuts, has been assigned to a desk job and will resign at the end of the semester, school officials said Friday. Vicki Williams, 50, a fifth-grade teacher at Mae Smyth Elementary, faced termination after district officials learned earlier this year about the letters, but the district and Williams' lawyers reached a settlement Wednesday that will allow her to stay until the winter break. The Pasadena Independent School District board is expected to vote on whether to accept the agreement...