September 18, 1991
Education Week, Vol. 11, Issue 03
Education
Calif. Businessman's Drive For Choice Sparking Battle
The nation's largest state may be headed toward a bitter and
divisive clash over school choice in the form of a ballot initiative
spearheaded by a leading California businessman.
Education
New Jersey To Implement Comer Program in Urban Districts
The New Jersey education department has announced plans to
administer the school-improvement model developed by the child
psychiatrist James P. Comer of Yale University in dozens of urban
schools throughout the state.
Education
Bush Endorses Civil-Rights Revisions To Permit Academies for Black Males
President Bush said last week that he would favor changing civil-rights law if that were necessary to permit special schools for black males.
Education
N.C. Effort To Differentiate Pay for Teachers Weakens
In the wake of a budget-slashing legislative session that left most
of North Carolina's school-reform projects either unfunded or on the
drawing beards, the state's experiment with differentiated-pay plans
for teachers also has been significantly weakened.
Education
Federal File: Healthy Pork?; Status Quo
What supporters describe as a bold new federal initiative to provide
health insurance to low-income children is just a slice of razorback
pork, in the eyes of the federal officials who are going to have to
provide the money for the program.
Education
National News Roundup
About 40 percent of the nation's large counties face budget deficits
this year as the gulf between sagging federal aid and a rising demand
for services continues to put local officials in a bind.
Education
Capital Digest
A top Education Department official last week fffirmed that the
Administration does not seek to turn the National Assessment of
Educational Progress into its proposed American Achievement Tests.
Education
Q&A: Maryland State Chief, With Two Hats, Aims at Collaboration
Nancy S. Grasmick, who this month was named Maryland's
Superintendent of Schools, is the only state school chief to
simultaneously hold another cabinet-level position: special secretary
of the Office for Children, Youth, and Families.
Education
Schools Bring New Zeal to Efforts To Stem the Spread of Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis, once a feared and deadly disease in this country, is
again on the upswing, and school officials in several districts are
expanding efforts to prevent the highly contagious illness from gaining
access to the classroom.
Education
In Philadelphia, Program Pairs Adult Mentors With Teenagers To Provide Money and Time
Sixteen-year-old Warner Days and his mentor, Victor Deane Jr., may
shoot hoops or gobble cheese steaks together, but neither activity is
what the 10th grader considers their most important. That would be
studying.
Education
Philip Morris Awards $500,000 Grant To Restructure College of Education
The Philip Morris Companies this month gave a $500,000 grant to the
University of Tennessee to completely restructure its college of
education and to help other universities improve the way they train
teachers.
Education
Debate on Merits Of Public, Private Schools Reignites
A series of public remarks and opinion columns by the president of
the American Federation of Teachers has helped reignite a long-running
debate about the relative merits of public and private schools in
fostering academic achievement.
Education
Teachers' Strikes Up 36% Amid Signs of Growing Tension
Teachers' strikes are running 36 percent ahead of last year--a sign,
educators and others say, that labor relations may be deteriorating as
a result of the prolonged economic recession.
Education
News in Brief
A state judge in Pennsylvania has given school districts a partial
reprieve from new rules requiring them to provide school-tax rebates to
local taxpayers.
Education
Chicago School Board Asking Teachers To Forgo 7 Percent Raises
The Chicago Board of Education, after completing a tumultuous round
of budget cuts that threatened to delay the opening of the city's
schools, has begun negotiating with the Chicago Teachers Union to forgo
the 7 percent raises teachers were to receive this year.
Education
News Updates
Twenty-nine girls have applied for places at Detroit's three special
African-centered academies, which were originally designed for boys
only.
Education
With Reopening of School in Kuwait, Officials Hope for Return to Normalcy
The American School of Kuwait reopened this month with hopes for a
return to normalcy after the ravages of the Iraqi occupation and
Persian Gulf war.
Education
Study Charts Students' Diversity, School Progress by State
Public schools in the United States are becoming increasingly racially diverse, according to a new study, and the trend shows no signs of diminishing.
Education
Publishing
Encouraging creativity in children is the goal of SPARK a magazine
for 4- to 12-year-olds that premieres this month.
Education
State News Roundup
A majority of public school districts in Minnesota offer an unequal
number of athletic opportunities to beys and girls, according to a
report prepared by the state department of education.
Education
E.P.A. Warns 1,300 Districts of Asbestos Violations
The Environmental Protection Agency is warning 1,300 school districts nationwide that they could be found in violation of the federal asbestos law because the national asbestos-consulting firm they hired may have performed substandard work.
Education
State Journal: Band-Aid Or Major Surgery?
Louisiana teachers thought they had been granted a reprieve this
summer when the legislature suspended the state's controversial program
of teacher evaluations.
Education
Chelsea Placed in Receivership; School Opening Delayed
Schools in Chelsea, Mass., were expected to open this week, after
the state legislature approved a bill putting the financially
devastated city into receivership.
Education
Thomas Embraces 'Wall of Separation' Between Church, State
WASHINGTON--Clarence Thomas, appearing last week before the Senate
Judiciary Committee for hearings on his nomination to the U.S. Supreme
Court, suggested he is a proponent of church-state separation, but he
left unclear how he would apply the principle to specific education
issues.
Education
Dallas Board To Rehire All But 40 of 257 Laid-Off Teachers
The Dallas school board last week approved a plan to rehire all but
40 of the 257 teachers whose dismissal had sparked a series of
demonstrations by disgruntled students.
Education
District News Roundup
New York City Schools Chancellor Joseph A. Fernandez has announced
plans to institute a mandatory youth-service program in three city
schools.
Education
The Great Tonasket Cover-Up
It all began when a Washington State businessman asked the renowned
"wrap artist" Christo Javacheff for a small donation for the local
schools.
Education
In Indiana, Business Groups Not Talking as One on Reform
In a sparkling office building in the heart of Indianapolis, the business group Community Leaders Allied for Superior Schools works for educational improvement from within the city's public schools.