Eyeing Reform, School-to-Work Bills, States Formulate Plans

By Julie A. Miller

Columbus, Ohio

State officials already are making plans for education-reform and job-training initiatives in anticipation of the Clinton Administration's proposed "Goals 2000'' and school-to-work programs, participants at the annual conference of the Council of Chief State School Officers have made clear.

Meeting here this month, the council adopted a statement pledging to work toward "systemic reform'' of education that essentially endorses the direction taken by Goals 2000 and...