April 28, 1993

Education Week, Vol. 12, Issue 31
Education Summer Youth Programs and Jobs Stripped From Stimulus Package
WASHINGTON--Bowing to pressure from Republicans, the White House and Congressional Democrats last week ditched President Clinton's plan to spend billions of dollars this summer on education and youth-related programs as part of an economic-stimulus package.
Mark Pitsch, April 28, 1993
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Education People News
Tracey Leon Bailey, a science teacher at Satellite High School in Satellite Beach, Fla., last week was honored as the 1993 National Teacher of the Year at a White House ceremony attended by President Clinton and Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley.
April 28, 1993
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Education Goals Panel Approves Plan To Measure Citizenship
In a move panel members said could boost the teaching of citizenship, the National Education Goals Panel last week adopted a plan for assessing student progress in that field.
Robert Rothman, April 28, 1993
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Education Riley, Reich Unveil Reform Bill -- And Win Welcome in Congress
WASHINGTON--After weeks of negotiations with members of Congress, education groups, and the National Governors' Association, the Clinton Administration last week unveiled a new version of its education-reform bill.
Julie A. Miller, April 28, 1993
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Education Sizer's Coalition Expands To Include Elementary Grades
One of the nation's most prominent high-school-reform initiatives, the Coalition of Essential Schools, is branching out into the elementary grades.
Lynn Olson, April 28, 1993
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Education Five 'Next Century' Projects Get Final RJR Nabisco Grants
The RJR Nabisco Foundation has announced it will award a total of $450,000 to five previous winners of its "Next Century Schools'' competition to help them replicate their restructuring programs at other schools in their communities.
Meg Sommerfeld, April 28, 1993
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Education Reform Law's Influence Seen in Ruling on Ky. Superintendent
A Kentucky judge has upheld the first removal of a local superintendent under the state's 1990 school-reform law.
Lonnie Harp, April 28, 1993
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Education $3 Million Awarded To Ease College Transition
As part of a new "school-to-college transition" initiative, the DeWitt Wallace-Header's Digest Fund has announced that it will award grants totaling more than $3 million to three programs designed to increase college attendance among low-income youths.
Meg Sommerfeld, April 28, 1993
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Education Federal File: Relocation; Generosity; Applause
If the Clinton Administration has its way, Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley and many other Education Department officials will be cleaning out their desks in 1994.
April 28, 1993
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Education News Updates
The Gaston County, N.C., school board voted late last month to move forward with implementation of its "Odyssey Project,'' a school-restructuring initiative that has been criticized by local Christian activists. (See Education Week, March 10, 1993.)
April 28, 1993
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Education Events
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April 28, 1993
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Education As Districts Bristle, Unfunded State Mandates Face New Scrutiny
As a member of the Arizona House last year, Bev Hermon introduced a bill to prohibit the state from imposing mandates on schools unless it was willing to pay for them.
Karen Diegmueller, April 28, 1993
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Education National News Roundup
Colleges must offer women students athletic opportunities that are equivalent to those they offer men and in proportion to their presence in the student body, according to the first federal appellate-court ruling to apply Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 to intercollegiate athletics.
April 28, 1993
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Education Invention Contest Scrutinized in Wake of Fiscal Allegations
Invent America!, a national science competition for elementary school students, is facing allegations that it is slow in distributing prizes to winners and has lax accounting and bill-paying procedures, and that its founder sexually harassed several female employees.
Mark Walsh, April 28, 1993
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Education Measures Seek To Insure Equal Opportunities for Girls, Boys
Spurred by a report arguing that the American education system shortchanges girls, lawmakers last week announced a $360 million package of legislation designed to make sure schools offer the same opportunities to girls as to boys.
Millicent Lawton, April 28, 1993
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Education Publishing Column
The Center for Media and Values, a nonprofit group promoting media awareness, has published a curriculum guide that is being packaged with the 15th-anniversary issue of its quarterly, Media&Values.
April 28, 1993
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Education Conn. Lawmakers Back 10-Region Desegregation Plan
A Connecticut legislative panel has approved a desegregation plan that seeks to improve the racial balance between city and suburban schools by carving the state into 10 regions responsible for devising local remedies.
Joanna Richardson, April 28, 1993
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Education Math for the Mind: Educators Connect Numbers to Real World
Early in the morning, over half-full cups of cappuccino, groups of mathematics teachers here recently sat squabbling over how to equitably divide the piles of hard candies and strips of red licorice that were heaped on the tables before them.
Peter West, April 28, 1993
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Education Books: New in Print
Parental Involvement
Children and Trauma: A Parent's Guide to Helping Children Heal, by Cynthia Monahon (Lexington Books, 866 Third Ave., New York, N.Y. 10022; 222 pp., $19.95 cloth). Teaches parents about the effects of trauma, offers "a blueprint for restoring a child's sense of safety,'' and describes the warning signs that a child needs professional help.
April 28, 1993
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Education Calif. Assembly Musters Votes To Block Honig Successor
Democrats in the California Assembly last week were on the verge of defeating the nomination of Sen. Marian Bergeson to fill out the term of Bill Honig, the ousted superintendent of public instruction.
Lonnie Harp, April 28, 1993
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Education University Leaders From Around World Pledge Reform Role
University leaders from two dozen countries acknowledged here last week that they have been "on the sidelines'' of education reform for too long, and they pledged to take a more active role in improving their countries' elementary and secondary schools.
Robert Rothman, April 28, 1993
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Education New N.A.S. President Discusses Science Literacy in Schools
Bruce M. Alberts, an internationally known biochemist at the University of California at San Francisco and an advocate for science-education reform, will assume the presidency of the National Academy of Sciences in July.
April 28, 1993
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Education Dade Backs Off Use of Detectors To Search Teachers for Weapons
The Dade County, Fla., school board gave preliminary approval this month to a plan to use metal detectors beginning next fall to search students at random for weapons, but backed away from extending the policy to teachers and other school staff members.
Millicent Lawton, April 28, 1993
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Education HONORS & AWARDS
Margaret Crissman Funkhouser, founder of the Los Angeles Education Partnership, a public-private collaboration that raises money for innovative public school programs, was recently awarded a Wellesley College Alumnae Achievement Award, for outstanding achievement in the field of education.
April 28, 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.
April 28, 1993
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Education E.T.S. Policies on Investigating Cheating Assailed
Procedures used by the Educational Testing Service in investigating alleged cheating by high school students who take the Scholastic Assessment Test violate professional standards, a Boston College researcher has charged.
Mark Pitsch, April 28, 1993
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Education District News Roundup
A Los Angeles Superior Court judge last week blocked the Los Angeles Unified School District from formally adopting a new contract with its teachers' union until it can find a way to pay for the $36 million deal.
April 28, 1993
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Education University in Detroit To Open Public Middle School in Fall
Wayne State University, a public research institution in the heart of Detroit, plans to open a public middle school this fall that will serve up to 350 students, university officials said last week.
Ann Bradley, April 28, 1993
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Education Capital Digest
The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments last week in a case that will decide what burden of proof alleged victims of employment discrimination must meet to win their suits when courts find "pretextual'' reasons for their demotion or dismissal.
April 28, 1993
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