March 3, 1993
Education Week, Vol. 12, Issue 23
Education
Legislative Update
The following are summaries of governors' budget requests for
precollegiate education and highlights of proposals that rank high on
the states' education agendas.
Education
Honig Fined, Sentenced to 1,000 Hours of Service
Bill Honig, the longtime California schools chief convicted last
month on felony conflict-of-interest charges, was sentenced last week
to 1,000 hours of community service and ordered to repay the state
grants that led to the charges.
Education
Stimulus Package Put Off Until After Action on Budget
A House subcommittee last week endorsed the part of President Clinton's economic-stimulus package that provides an $8.8 billion infusion into several social-service programs, including those assisting children, youths, and college students.
Education
District News Roundup
The U.S. Justice Department has barred the city of Newport News, Va., from holding at-large elections for its school board because, it said, such a procedure would be unfair to black voters.
Education
News In Brief
N.M. Panel Approves Tuition Tax Credit
After a proposed voucher program failed to win approval, the education committee of the New Mexico Senate last week approved a tuition tax credit for private education.
After a proposed voucher program failed to win approval, the education committee of the New Mexico Senate last week approved a tuition tax credit for private education.
Education
First National Study Of After-School Care Cites Progress, Pitfalls
The "rapidly growing'' number and variety of before- and after-school programs based at schools and other sites have expanded opportunities for working parents to find a safe haven for their children during nonschool hours, a new federal study shows.
Education
Parental-Notification Issue Holds Up Vote in House on Family-Planning Bill
A House vote on reauthorizing the primary federal family-planning program was stalled last week by a proposed amendment that would require clinics to notify a parent when an underage client seeks an abortion.
Education
News Updates
The Kentucky Supreme Court has unanimously upheld the right of the state board of education to dismiss three members of the Harlan County school board under the state's school-reform law.
Education
Budget Cuts, Teacher Objections Stymie Ore. Reform
A 1991 Oregon school-reform law that has drawn national attention
for its attempts to link education with economic needs is running up
against the state's burgeoning fiscal crisis.
Education
2 School Cases Heard By High Court Raise Church-State Issues
A public school district may provide a sign-language interpreter for a deaf student in a Catholic high school because such aid does not advance religion, the lawyer for an Arizona family told the U.S. Supreme Court last week.
Education
In the Press
A sobering look at childhood immunization in the March 1993 issue of
The Atlantic shows how costly the 1980's were in terms of America's
protection from common-disease epidemics. Citing figures from the
Centers for Disease Control's recent overview of vaccination rates
since 1985--the year the U.S. Immunization Survey was canceled--the
article notes that the problem of unvaccinated youngsters has moved out
of the inner-city and into the middle class.
Education
Devotees Seek To Enhance Image Of Earth Science in the Curriculum
With their lunar landing craft in ruins and help more than 200 kilometers away, Jo Ann Mulvany's 9th graders are facing some tough choices as they prepare a list of tools they will need to trek to safety.
Education
Publisher Plans Customized Services for Precollegiate Market
A major publisher of materials for history and social-studies courses last month entered the rapidly growing field of custom publishing and hopes to extend its services soon into the precollegiate market.
Education
Teaching Column
The Center for Educational Renewal at the University of Washington, directed by the noted educator John I. Goodlad, has named three new colleges of education to its list of reform-minded institutions.
Education
Court To Decide on Private Placement of Disabled Children
The U.S. Supreme Court last week agreed to decide a special-education case that will help determine the extent of school districts' responsibility to pay for private school placements of children with disabilities.
Education
As Military Bases Close, Some Eye Educational Uses
When Pentagon officials announced the planned closing of Fort Devens near Boston, many people saw an aging military facility that was no longer needed with the winding down of the Cold War.
Education
Time and Space
Although students at the City Magnet School in Lowell, Mass., don't start off quite as early, their school day isn't conventional either.
Mornings are spent learning the principles of publishing, economics, and government; in the afternoon, students put such skills into practice at their "jobs'' at mock newspapers, banks, and courthouses within the school.
Education
Strike in L.A. Postponed; Teachers Weigh Pay Plan
After postponing a teachers' strike that was scheduled to begin Feb. 23, members of the United Teachers-Los Angeles were expected to vote late last week on a compromise pay agreement offered by Willie Lewis Brown Jr., the Speaker of the California House.
Education
Hitting the History Trail
In true pioneer spirit, 12 California students recently gave up the creature comforts of the 20th century to re-enact a forty-niner's search for gold.
Education
For a Growing Number of Teachers, Children's Literature Is Hot Topic
FREDERICK COUNTY, Va.--It is a little after 4 P.M., and eight teachers, a librarian, and a principal are gathered around a big oak table in the library here at Armel Elementary School. It looks like the sort of after-school gathering that might be discussing a troublesome student, parking issues, or some other matter of school policy.
Education
HONORS & AWARDS
Fifty-four Milwaukee public school teachers were recently named recipients of awards in the third annual Wisconsin Bell/Ameritech Teacher Recognition Program, sponsored by Wisconsin Bell and the Ameritech Foundation. The teachers and their schools are listed below by place categories.
Education
Center Lists Skills Both Disabled, Nondisabled Should Have
A federally funded research center has unveiled a list of academic and life skills it says all students--disabled as well as nondisabled--should have upon leaving school.
Education
People News Roundup
P. Michael Timpane, the president of Teachers College, Columbia
University, has announced he will step down from that post in June 1994
after 10 years in office.
Education
State News Roundup
A state advisory council in Texas has recommended that every school in the state begin providing "age-appropriate sex education'' to schoolchildren from kindergarten through 12th grade.
Education
Colleges Column
The American Council on Education has sent a letter to Secretary of Defense Les Aspin in support of President Clinton's announced intention to lift the ban on homosexuals in the military.
Education
Scaled-Back Reform Measure Advances in Washington State
Washington State lawmakers are moving ahead with a school-reform
plan proposed by a state panel late last year, after scaling the
proposal back to reduce its cost and mollify key education groups.
Education
Book Excerpt: Nurturing the 'Hunger for Know-How'
In School's Out, Lewis J. Perelman proposes that the current
education system be scrapped in favor of "genuine learning,'' an
enterprise made easier--and more mandatory--he says, by the advent of a
new wave of knowledge technology that puts access to enhanced learning
("hyperlearning,'' in his phrase) in reach of everyone.