March 31, 1993

Education Week, Vol. 12, Issue 27
Education State Chief's Race in Wisconsin Pits Teacher and Bureaucrat in Dogfight
On the second day of spring, residents of this Milwaukee-area city insist, it is not supposed to be snowing.
Karen Diegmueller, March 31, 1993
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Education Key Element of Clinton Economic Plan Clears Senate Hurdle
WASHINGTON--The Senate last week approved a five-year plan to reduce the federal deficit that hews closely to President Clinton's proposal and budget guidelines passed earlier by the House.
Mark Pitsch, March 31, 1993
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Education State Journal: Children of the state; Out of work
Looking back over two decades, a senior school-finance researcher recently acknowledged that he and his colleagues had failed to anticipate the extent to which the fundamental responsibility for funding education would shift from the local level to the states.
March 31, 1993
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Education Events
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March 31, 1993
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Education GRANTS
From Federal Sources
U.S. Education Department
March 31, 1993
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Education Louisiana Court Bars District From Using Sex-Ed Program Teaching Abstinence
A Louisiana state judge has barred the Caddo Parish school board from using a sex-education curriculum that teaches students to abstain from sexual intercourse until after marriage on the grounds that it is "medically inaccurate'' and contains "religious beliefs.''
Jessica Portner, March 31, 1993
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Education Column one: Research
A researcher from the National Center for Education Statistics has raised doubts about the way the National Assessment of Educational Progress reports the way students from low socioeconomic backgrounds perform on the assessment.
March 31, 1993
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Education Full Appeals Court To Hear Case on Duty To Protect Pupils
The full U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has agreed to rehear a closely watched Texas case concerning the duty of school officials to protect students from such harms as sexual assault.
Mark Walsh, March 31, 1993
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Education News Updates
A Pennsylvania state judge has granted permission to three groups representing parents and child advocates to intervene in Philadelphia's school-desegregation case.
March 31, 1993
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Education National Board Revises Prerequisites for Certification of Teachers
In a change to one of its most controversial policies, the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards has decided that candidates for national certification must hold valid state teaching licenses.
Ann Bradley, March 31, 1993
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Education Cuts in Funds to Rural Alaska Districts Called Political
A move to cut more than $1 million from the budgets of nine small rural school districts has touched off a bitter partisan battle in the Alaska legislature.
Mark Walsh, March 31, 1993
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Education Opinion When a Teacher's Red Pen Can Liberate
Late one evening in April, I was reading a stack of papers that students had written about fear, in connection with their reading of Native Son.
Ann Lew, March 31, 1993
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Education Opinion Getting More Out of Fewer School Years
Last June, The Wall Street Journal published excerpts from the 1885 Jersey City High School entrance examination that showed just how far our educational standards have slipped in 100 years
Alan Cromer, March 31, 1993
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Education Opinion Your District Needs a Bus-Safety Plan
It was the second day of school. Michelle, age 5, a 1st grader, stepped from the school bus.
William H. Parkhurst 3rd, March 31, 1993
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Education Letter to the Editor Letters to the Editor
To the Editor:
Reading "Charting a Course for Reform'' ("From Risk to Renewal,'' Special Report, Feb. 10, 1993) made me think of the infamous dog that didn't bark. There were some silent growls but no bark!
March 31, 1993
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