Riley Advocates Multi-Prong Attack on Problem of School Violence

By Jessica Portner

Washington

As the Clinton Administration's campaign in behalf of a pending anti-crime measure swung into high gear last week with a flurry of speeches by Cabinet members, Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley declared that he was "deeply troubled'' by what he sees as a "new level of violence'' in the nation's schools.

In a speech to a National School Boards Association conference in New Orleans, the Secretary began by asking the audience to pray for Barrington Miles, a Prince George's County, Md., teacher who was critically wounded by a 17-year-old student earlier this month in a shooting...