March 31, 1993

Education Week, Vol. 12, Issue 27
Education Capital Update
Capital Update tracks the movement of legislation, the introduction of notable bills, and routine regulatory announcements.
March 31, 1993
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Education School-Funding Cuts Close Off One Path to Citizenship
After living in the United States for nearly 20 years, Pedro Soto is getting ready to take his citizenship test.
Debra Viadero, March 31, 1993
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Education Capital Digest
Anticipating the introduction of school-to-work legislation by the Clinton Administration, two House Republicans have put an alternative proposal on the table.
March 31, 1993
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Education Physical and Health Educators Demand Their Fields Be Included in Goals
WASHINGTON--More than 800 high school coaches, health educators, students, and college professors last week marched to the steps of the Education Department here and demanded that physical education and health be included along with academic disciplines in the national education goals and standards-setting efforts.
Jessica Portner, March 31, 1993
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Education Lack of Funds Forces Mich. District To Close Early
Drawing the ire of state officials and the support of union leaders, the Kalkaska, Mich., school system last week closed 45 days early for lack of funds.
Peter Schmidt, March 31, 1993
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Education Events Set To Mark 10th Anniversary Of the Publication of A Nation at Risk
The 10th anniversary next month of the release of A Nation at Risk, the federal report credited with quickening the ongoing school-reform movement, is being marked by a modest number of events nationwide.
Mark Walsh, March 31, 1993
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Education Justice White To Retire At End of Current Term
President Clinton said last week that he will appoint someone with "deep convictions'' about civil liberties to replace Associate Justice Byron R. White, who has announced he will retire at the end of the U.S. Supreme Court's current term.
Mark Walsh, March 31, 1993
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Education Musical Comedy?
Always in the vanguard of political correctness, the city of Berkeley, Calif., now can lay claim to a high school choir for the "melodically challenged.''
March 31, 1993
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Education Federal File: Filling slots; A novel brief
Sharon Robinson, the director of the National Education Association's National Center for Innovation, will be named assistant secretary for educational research and improvement, sources at the N.E.A. and the Education Department said last week.
March 31, 1993
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Education APPOINTMENTS
In the Schools
March 31, 1993
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Education District News Roundup
The Washington state board of education has given the Seattle school district a one-year waiver from strict compliance with state guidelines for racial balance in schools.
March 31, 1993
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Education Texas Report Questions Management Of Funds in Teacher-Retirement System
A six-month investigation by the Texas attorney general's office has called into question the management of some of the funds in the state's teacher-retirement system.
Lonnie Harp, March 31, 1993
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Education Stronger Links Between Schools and Child Care Sought
Child-care programs must develop "strong connections to the public schools'' to insure children get the foundation they need for learning, a policy statement from the Child Care Action Campaign concludes.
Deborah L. Cohen, March 31, 1993
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Education Dollars and Sense
After three years of fruitless and contentious wrestling, people here would understand if Sen. Carl A. Parker compared the issue of school finance to a bottomless pit or, perhaps, a bed of nails. Instead, the powerful Texas lawmaker rocks back in his chair and calls to mind a much different image.
Lonnie Harp, March 31, 1993
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Education Survey Paints 'Picture' of School Sexual Harassment
Girls who say they have been sexually harassed in school report that suggestive gestures, looks, comments, or jokes are the most common kind of harassment and that most harassment at school occurs in public and is initiated by male peers, according to an unscientific survey of readers of Seventeen magazine.
Millicent Lawton, March 31, 1993
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Education By Asking About 'Context', Center Moves to the Cutting Edge of Research
When Milbrey W. McLaughlin and Joan E. Talbert launched their five-year study of the factors that influence high schools and teachers, they began, like most researchers, with a set of assumptions about what would be important to ask.
Ann Bradley, March 31, 1993
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Education Q&A: Scholar Examines Role of Language, Asians' Math Achievement
The well-documented gaps between Asian children and U.S. children in mathematics achievement may reflect the Asian children's superior understanding of numbers, which in turn may be related to differences in language, according to a new study.
March 31, 1993
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Education S.F. Weighs Granting Noncitizens Vote in Board Elections
Officials of the San Francisco Unified School District are weighing whether to give noncitizens there the right to vote in school board elections, a spokeswoman for the district said last week.
Peter Schmidt, March 31, 1993
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Education Head Start Faces A New Round of Political Scrutiny
The impact and potential of Head Start--which have never been easy to gauge scientifically--are being questioned with new vigor just as the program stands poised for further expansion.
Deborah L. Cohen, March 31, 1993
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Education National News Roundup
The rate at which teenagers ages 15 to 19 were killed by firearms leaped 77 percent between 1985 and 1990, reaching its highest level to date, according to a new federal study.
March 31, 1993
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Education News In Brief
The Georgia legislature has approved Gov. Zell Miller's proposal to create charter schools that would operate free of most state rules governing education.
March 31, 1993
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Education Democrats' Objections Spur E.D. To Delay Reform Bill
WASHINGTON--After a somewhat stormy meeting with Democratic members of the House Education and Labor Committee last week, Education Department officials decided to delay the release of their education-reform legislation, and action on the bill was postponed indefinitely.
Julie A. Miller, March 31, 1993
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Education State News Roundup
The U.S. Health and Human Services Department last week approved Oregon's controversial plan to "ration'' health care for Medicaid recipients.
March 31, 1993
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Education People News
An 18-year-old high school senior in Bronxville, N.Y., has lost his first bid for elected office, but made a good showing.
March 31, 1993
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Education School-Finance System in Tenn. Is Struck Down
In a move expected to intensify, rather than resolve, Tennessee's long-running battles over education funding, the state supreme court last week struck down the state's school-finance system.
Peter Schmidt, March 31, 1993
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Education High Court Upholds I.N.S. Detention Of Suspected Illegal Alien Children
WASHINGTON--The U.S. Supreme Court last week upheld the Immigration and Naturalization Service's policy of keeping children who are suspected illegal aliens in detention when legal guardians or close relatives cannot be found to take custody of the children.
Mark Walsh, March 31, 1993
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Education Legislative Update
The following are summaries of governors' budgets for precollegiate education and highlights of proposals that rank high on the states' education agendas.
March 31, 1993
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Education In Reversal, Idaho Lawmakers Spare Pilot Reform Project
In response to intense public criticism, the Idaho legislature'sjoint finance- appropriations committee has reversed its initial decision to eliminate a $2 million education-reform pilot project.
Meg Sommerfeld, March 31, 1993
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Education Low Wages, Turnover Still Hurt Child Care, Survey Finds
A follow-up survey of child-care centers involved in a 1988 study on working conditions in the centers suggests that low wages and high staff turnover continue to undermine the stability of the care that many children receive.
Deborah L. Cohen, March 31, 1993
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