January 27, 1993
Education Week, Vol. 12, Issue 18
Education
People News
Janie R. Hill Hatton has been named the first National Principal of the Year by a five-member panel chaired by former U.S. Secretary of Education Terrel H. Bell.
Education
Small Program for School Innovations Faces Scrutiny
When Congress this year considers the massive reauthorization of elementary and secondary education programs, one of the many items on its agenda will be the fate of a small, obscure program that supporters say has a potentially big impact.
Education
Capital Update
President Clinton is expected to miss a Feb. 1 deadline for submitting his fiscal 1994 budget, and has said that he will outline his economic plan on Feb. 17, when he addresses the nation in his first State of the Union Message.
Education
Testing Places Only a 'Modest' Burden On Students, G.A.O. Report Concludes
WASHINGTON--Despite fears that American students are "overtested,'' testing places only a "modest'' burden of time on schools and costs less than other reports have indicated, a study by the General Accounting Office concludes.
Education
Q & A: Educator Discusses Impact of Politicians' Children on School
Officials at the private Sidwell Friends School in Washington were bombarded with attention last week as President Clinton's daughter, Chelsea, started school with the media on hand to photograph her playing soccer and to quiz classmates about rubbing elbows for the first time with the First Student.
Education
Phila. Hospital, Middle School Team Exposes Students to Health-Care Careers
In a stately brick hospital building situated here in the heart of West Philadelphia, a group of nine 8th graders from the neighboring Turner Middle School don bright yellow lab coats and fan out into different wards of a nearby hospital like residents conducting their morning rounds.
Education
Casey Seeks Legislative Changes in Pa. Learning Goals
Stepping up his battle with the Pennsylvania state board of education over its hotly debated set of learner outcomes, Gov. Robert P. Casey last week called on lawmakers to make changes in the proposal.
Education
State Journal: Claiming vindication; Stuck in park
The California Teachers Association and school-choice backers are still sparring over last year's petition drive to get a voucher initiative on the state ballot.
Education
Minn. Creates Athletics League for the Disabled
Ernie Burnham Jr. scampers across the floor, swings his hockey stick, and slaps the orange puck toward the net.
Ed-Tech Policy
Investors Urged To Help Spur the Use of Education Technology
A United States Senator has called on some of the nation's most prosperous investors to help federal lawmakers in their effort to "reinvent'' schooling to make better use of sophisticated technology.
Education
Fernandez Moves To Revise Guide on Homosexual Families
After months of controversy, Chancellor Joseph A. Fernandez of the New York City public schools has moved to soften sections of a multicultural curriculum guide that deal with homosexual families.
Education
Court Rejects Higher School Rent to Church Groups
A federal judge has struck down a Virginia school district's policy of charging church groups higher rent than other community groups to use school facilities.
Education
Capital Update
Even as the Massachusetts House last week was beginning work on a comprehensive school-reform bill, Gov. William F. Weld released a fiscal 1994 budget proposal that withholds additional education funding.
Education
Gov. Weicker Unveils Measure To Achieve Regional Integration
Gov. Lowell P. Weicker Jr. of Connecticut late last week introduced legislation aimed at launching an unprecedented statewide attempt to alleviate racial segregation in public schools.
Education
Benefits of Leave Bill to Children, Families Extolled
Supporters of a bill that would require large firms to grant workers unpaid leave for family emergencies, which appears headed for swift action in Congress, have long argued that the legislation would take a landmark step toward helping employees reconcile work and family concerns.
Education
Milestones
Retired Associate Justice Thurgood Marshall of the U.S. Supreme Court, one of the foremost legal architects of the civil-rights movement and the first black Justice on the Court, died of heart failure Jan. 24 at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md. He was 84.
Education
Legislative Update
Beginning this week, Legislative Update will summarize governors' budget requests for precollegiate education and highlight proposals that rank high on the states' education agendas. In coming months, it will summarize final budget actions.
Education
News Updates
The U.S. Education Department's office for civil rights is investigating the Richmond, Va., school district to determine if it assigns students to classes in its elementary schools based on their race.
Education
Desegregation Ruling Seen Spurring Calls To Close Black Colleges
When the U.S. Supreme Court ruled last summer that Mississippi had not rid its higher-education system of the effects of state-mandated segregation, civil-rights lawyers initially appeared to have been handed a landmark victory.
Education
National News Roundup
Although accidental injury is the leading cause of death among children under age 14, parents are more concerned about violent crime and alcohol and drug abuse, according to a survey of parents released last week by a Washington-based research group.
Education
Federal File: Capitalizing on Chelsea; Tokyo bound; Revolving door
SchoolMatch, a company that provides statistical information on public schools to parents who are shopping for a place to live, apparently saw a potential promotional hook in the controversy over where Chelsea Clinton attends school.
Education
New Curriculum Seeks To Update Principal Training
The National Policy Board for Educational Administration last week released a comprehensive program for the preparation of school principals, marking the culmination of three years of research on the knowledge and skills required to lead contemporary schools.
Education
D.C. Pay Accord Calls for School Closings, Layoffs
Mayor Sharon Pratt Kelly of the District of Columbia and leaders of the city's school system agreed last week to finance a pay increase for teachers by closing 10 schools next fall and cutting nearly 900 school employees from the payroll.
Education
Program To Aid Aspiring Teachers Expands in Illinois
The Chicago-based Golden Apple Foundation recently selected the first participants in its statewide expansion of a program designed to help disadvantaged high school students become teachers.
Education
Special-Education Column
Even in states that have flexible rules for identifying gifted students, few local school administrators aggressively recruit "nontraditional'' pupils for their gifted programs, a new study suggests.
Education
Column One: Students
Florida high school students who earned the General Educational Development certificate were more likely to be employed and earned more money than regular high school graduates, a study by Florida State University researchers has found.
Education
Merger Creates New International Teachers' Group
Teachers and other education employees from more than 120 nations met last week in Stockholm to create a worldwide organization that will advocate for quality education and free teachers' unions.