November 17, 1993
Education Week, Vol. 13, Issue 11
Education
Administration Column
The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation last week christened New Jersey's first principals' center.
Education
Federal File: Rumors denied; E.S.E.A. delayed
Despite persistent rumors to the contrary, Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley insists that he plans to remain in his current job.
Education
E.D. Seeks To Improve Student-Aid Oversight
Recent Senate hearings on fraud and abuse in the Pell Grant program
will only raise the stakes for the Education Department's ongoing
efforts to improve oversight of the troubled federal student-aid
system.
Education
E.D., NAEP Board Spar Over Plan To Limit Tests
Washington
The board charged with setting policy for the National Assessment of Educational Progress is at odds with the Education Department's top statisticians over plans to limit the state-level testing program to just one subject and one grade level next year.
The board charged with setting policy for the National Assessment of Educational Progress is at odds with the Education Department's top statisticians over plans to limit the state-level testing program to just one subject and one grade level next year.
Education
Oregon Voters Defeat Tax Hike for Schools
An Oregon ballot initiative to establish a 5 percent sales tax
earmarked for education was defeated by a three-to-one margin last
week.
Education
Senate Adds Provisions on Juveniles to Crime Bill
Washington
The Senate last week added several youth-related provisions to its $22 billion crime bill, which was slated for passage this week.
The Senate last week added several youth-related provisions to its $22 billion crime bill, which was slated for passage this week.
Education
N.Y. Wrestles With Social-Studies Framework
A New York state task force, working two years behind its orginal schedule, is nearing completion of a framework for teaching social studies that would focus more on nonwhite cultures.
Education
Facilitated Communication Under New Scrutiny
Typing while an aide supported her hand, Mark Storch's autistic teenage daughter two years ago spelled out horrendous accusations against her father. In graphic language, she accused him of committing more than 200 vaginal and anal rapes upon her.
Education
Excerpts From Unanimous Ruling in Private-Placement Case
Following are excerpts from the U.S. Supreme Court's unanimous opinion in Florence County School District 4 v. Carter.
Education
Choice for the Long Haul
Despite the resounding defeat of a school-voucher initiative in California this month, the campaign for private school choice continues to gain momentum. But the highly charged fight over vouchers has masked a quieter revolution in American schools: the widespread acceptance of public school choice.
Education Funding
In Ohio, Bill To Revamp School Funding Unveiled
As an Ohio judge hears a lawsuit contending that the state's current school-finance system is unconstitutional, a leading lawmaker has introduced a bill designed to reduce funding disparities by increasing state funding and pooling the proceeds of economic growth.
Education
National News Roundup
While the Latino student population is rising and more Latinos are earning higher-education degrees, high dropout rates from high school and low college-attendance rates persist, the American Council on Education reports.
Education
Editors' Note
With this issue, we introduce some content and design changes in Education Week. Chief among them is the new features section, On Assignment, that begins on page 18.
Education
Conn. District Considers Vouchers As Alternative to Classrooms
Spurred by a sharp increase in student enrollment, some Fairfield, Conn., residents are proposing a voucher plan as a way to cut school costs.
Education
Nearing Strike Deadline, Boston Teachers, Board Approve Pact
The Boston School Committee and the local teachers' union last week approved a one-year contract agreement, narrowly avoiding a strike that was to begin Nov. 12.
Education
News Updates
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit has declared an end to federal-court oversight of the Oklahoma City school system's desegregation efforts.
Education
Media Column
The Disney Channel will be unscrambled for basic-cable-television subscribers for two events this month featuring teachers and children.
Education
People News
Constance E. Clayton, who served for 11 years as the superintendent of the Philadelphia schools before stepping down last summer, has been given an award for excellence in urban education.
Education
District News Roundup
A task force of students, parents, and educators has recommended phasing out ability grouping in the Cambridge, Mass., public schools.
Education
Court Declines To Hear Hawaii School's Religious-Hiring Case
The U.S. Supreme Court last week let stand a lower-court ruling that may force the Kamehameha Schools of Hawaii to abandon their policy of hiring only Protestants as teachers.
Education
Capital Digest
The Senate has passed legislation that would create a comprehensive federal child-immunization program.
Education
N.Y. To Reconsider Ban On Charitable Fund-Raising in Schools
The New York State Board of Regents this week will consider replacing a 70-year-old ban on charitable solicitations in schools with a more flexible regulation.
Education
N.Y.C. To Develop Curriculum Standards for All Schools
Schools Chancellor Ramon C. Cortines of New York City has undertaken the development of a curriculum framework for all the city's public schools.
Education
A Trust Betrayed
The Rabun County jail sits in the bowels of a modern, brick complex one block behind the main street in Clayton, Ga., a small town in the Blue Ridge Mountains. The building itself is mostly given over to courtrooms, clerks' offices, tax offices, and the usual array of government services.
Ed-Tech Policy
Educators Want Access to New Digital Communications
Some schools could find themselves at dead ends on the "information highway'' unless the federal government requires telecommunications companies to guarantee educational access to the digital networks they are building, participants in a recent conference here warned.
Education
New 'Goals 2000' Bill Excises State Standards Requirement
A new version of the Clinton Administration's education-reform plan, which could reach the Senate floor as early as this week, would not require states to establish standards for curricular content and student performance--a key change to the Administration's proposal and the bill that emerged from a Senate committee.
Education
State News Roundup
Nearly 40 percent of North Carolina's elementary school students have not mastered mathematics and reading sufficiently to advance to the next grade level, according to a new statewide test.