March 11, 1992

Education Week, Vol. 11, Issue 25
Education News In Brief
Gov. L. Douglas Wilder of Virginia has signed a bill delaying for two years implementation of new child-care regulations that would extend state licensing to many providers and programs not previously covered, including public and private preschools and kindergartens.
March 11, 1992
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Education Florida District Vows To Infuse Quality Principles Into Schools
When Steve Iachini speaks about W. Edwards Deming, his voice takes on the slight tremor of the initiate.
Lynn Olson, March 11, 1992
10 min read
Education National News Roundup
More than half of today's youths believe that life in the United States will be worse a decade from now, according to a national survey conducted for Scholastic Inc.
March 11, 1992
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Education Board Approves Evaluation Plan for La. Teachers
The Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education last week approved a plan to implement a new version of the state's controversial teacher-evaluation system by the 1994-95 academic year.
Mark Pitsch, March 11, 1992
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Education Schools Getting Swept Up in Current of Business's 'Quality' Movement
W. Edwards Deming glowers at the audience. Eliminate merit pay and student grades, he scolds. Stop ranking people and schools.
Lynn Olson, March 11, 1992
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Education Crossing the Red Cross
Barren County, Ky.'s Red Cross School, named for the century-old community it serves, has been receiving a lot of attention lately from the American National Red Cross, and not because of blood drives.
March 11, 1992
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Education Publishing Column
Expanding the national dialogue on educational technology is the goal of Technos: A Quarterly for Education and Technology, which debuts this week.
March 11, 1992
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Education District News Roundup
A federal judge has turned back an effort by Hispanic and Asian-American voters in Oakland, Calif., to require city officials to redraw local voting districts before this November's elections for school board and city council.
March 11, 1992
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Education Q&A: Superintendent of the Year Reflects on Award and Reforms
Donald W. Ingwerson, superintendent of the Jefferson County Public Schools in Louisville, Ky., last month was named the 1992 National Superintendent of the Year at the American Association of School Administrators' annual convention in San Diego.
March 11, 1992
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Education Budget Battle May Hold High Stakes for Education
WASHINGTON-An upcoming battle over budgetary rules is likely to determine how well education programs fare in fiscal 1993 before a single appropriations bill is introduced--and it appears that advocates for increased domestic spending ultimately will lose.
Mark Pitsch, March 11, 1992
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Education Program Found To Boost Youths' College Attendance
Intervention programs aimed at raising the expectations of disadvantaged youths can succeed in boosting college-attendance rates and can encourage success, but often are handicapped by a lack of information on successful tactics or are overwhelmed by the continuing pressures to raise funds, a new study concludes.
Lonnie Harp, March 11, 1992
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Education Vocational-Education Column
Private-industry council officials meeting last week in Washington learned from leading lawmakers that the Congress has yet to seriously consider the job-training reforms described earlier this year by the Bush Administration.
Lonnie Harp, March 11, 1992
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Ed-Tech Policy Technology Column
Cable-television franchisees would be required to make one channel available for educational programming under the terms of an amendment that a federal lawmaker hopes to attach to a pending telecommunications measure.
Peter West, March 11, 1992
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Education Teacher Educators Told To 'Do More' With Less Help, New Survey Finds
Administrators and faculty members engaged in teacher education believe they are being told to "do more," but with fewer resources and little say about what should be done to improve their programs, according to preliminary findings from a survey released here.
Ann Bradley, March 11, 1992
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Education School-Finance Debate in Kan. Prompts Talk of Taxes
A Kansas House panel last week began work on a package of state tax increases designed to offset cuts in local school revenues that would result from a school-finance measure espoused by Democratic lawmakers.
Peter West, March 11, 1992
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Education Superintendents' Consortium Dedicates Itself To L.E.P. Students
As he addresses his audience, James A. Connelly comes across like an ambitious business executive giving a no-nonsense pep talk to his sales force.
Peter Schmidt, March 11, 1992
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Education Tenn. Governor To Sign Long-Awaited School-Reform Bill
Ending two years of debate and frequent frustration, Gov. Ned McWherter of Tennessee is expected to sign an education-reform bill this week after approving a temporary tax increase to pay for it.
Lonnie Harp, March 11, 1992
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Education Bill To Seek Congressional Backing for EDSAT
A federal lawmaker has told members of a newly chartered educational-telecommunications body that he will ask the Congress to mitigate the financial risks of orbiting a satellite to facilitate distance learning.
Peter West, March 11, 1992
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Education Shift in Subsidized Day-Care System in Pa. Poses Challenges
Before Pennsylvania instituted a new system for allocating subsidized day-care slots a few years ago, the Lighthouse Family School in Philadelphia had been serving some 150 children, mostly from low-income Latino families.
Deborah L. Cohen, March 11, 1992
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Education Nearly 700 Teams Submit School-Design Overhauls
Nearly 700 teams from around the country have submitted their best ideas for how to teach children and run schools to the New American Schools Development Corporation, in hopes of receiving millions of dollars in funding.
Lynn Olson, March 11, 1992
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Education Column One: Administrators
School administrators are realizing that they can benefit from spending more time--and money--on public-relations activities.
Daniel Gursky, March 11, 1992
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Education Nabisco Pledges $4,000 in College Aid to Workers' Children
The R.J.R. Nabisco Corporation has announced an education-assistance program that it hopes will break down the financial barriers to postsecondary education for the children of its 35,000 employees.
Meg Sommerfeld, March 11, 1992
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Education Capital Digest
A host of higher-education organizations, led by the American Council on Education, last week announced their opposition to the Education Department's proposed policy on minority scholarships.
March 11, 1992
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Education Top Managers in L.A. Disciplined for Budget Errors
The Los Angeles superintendent of schools has taken the unprecedented step of disciplining several top fiscal managers for errors that contributed to the district's $130 million mid-year budget shortfall.
Ann Bradley, March 11, 1992
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Education Marketers, Critics Face Off on Children's Advertising
Advertisers are trying ever-more-creative ways to reach the lucrative youth market, but critics are becoming more aggressive all the time to stem the dangers they see in children's advertising.
Mark Walsh, March 11, 1992
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Education Appointments
In the schools
Donald Billingsley, former assistant to the vice chancellor for undergraduate academic programs at the University of California, Berkeley, to headmaster of Friends Select School in Philadelphia, Pa.
March 11, 1992
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Education Rochester To Lay Off 160 To Close Budget Deficit
The Rochester, N.Y., school board last week voted to layoff 160 employees--including all of the district's elementary school librarians--to help close a $10-million budget deficit.
Ann Bradley, March 11, 1992
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Education Indianapolis Board's Choice Plan Assailed as Political Ploy
Facing both widespread calls for school choice and competition from a privately funded voucher program, the board of the Indianapolis Public Schools has approved a "controlled" choice plan.
Peter Schmidt, March 11, 1992
4 min read
Education Federal File: A pervasive theme
Some months ago, the order apparently went out: No matter what the subject, every press release and every regulatory announcement emanating from the Education Department shall endeavor to mention America 2000 and the national education goals adopted by the Bush Administration and the National Governors' Association in 1990.
Julie A. Miller, March 11, 1992
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