January 12, 1994
Education Week, Vol. 13, Issue 16
Education
Calif. Gov. Among Several Who Vow Focus on Public-Safety Issues
Gov. Pete Wilson told California lawmakers last week that increasing violent crime has made prison spending an unpleasant priority, a theme that was sounded across the country as governors began delivering their annual State of the State speeches.
Education
Conflict Charges Leveled Against Chicago Board President
The Cook County, Ill., state's attorney's office is looking into conflict-of-interest charges involving D. Sharon Grant, the president of the Chicago board of education.
Education
People News
Year's end saw a number of changes in the ranks of the nation's state education chiefs.
Education
Capital Digest
The Justice Department has settled its financial-aid antitrust suit against the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Education
Experts Stress Need for Quality Child Care for Welfare Parents
Washington
As the Clinton Administration formulates its plan to revamp the welfare system, child advocates are emphasizing the need to insure not only that parents get the child care they need to pursue training and jobs, but also that such services are of sufficient quality to boost children's school readiness.
As the Clinton Administration formulates its plan to revamp the welfare system, child advocates are emphasizing the need to insure not only that parents get the child care they need to pursue training and jobs, but also that such services are of sufficient quality to boost children's school readiness.
Education
Minneapolis Approves Pact With Private Firm
The private firm hired to run the Minneapolis public schools could receive nearly half a million dollars a year if it meets specified educational and administrative goals, under a pay-for-performance contract approved by the school board.
Education
Desegregation Study Spurs Debate Over Equity Remedies
In the wake of a national study showing that the campaign to desegregate the public schools continues to lose ground, education and civil-rights leaders have called for renewed efforts to improve the education of black and Hispanic children wherever they go to school.
Education
Union Leaders Urge 'No Raid' Pacts During Merger Talks
Following a third round of national merger talks, the leaders of the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers sent a joint letter to state and local union offices encouraging them to collaborate more and, while the talks are in progress, to sign "no raid'' agreements.
Education
State Journal: Bee stings; Night school?; No vouchers
Word that Kentucky's annual spelling bee is in jeopardy in the name of education reform caused a swarm of angry reaction from across the state last month, leaving the event's former sponsors and state officials mired in a spirited i-m-b-r-o-g-l-i-o.
Education
Standards Issue Puts Ex-Education Secretaries at Odds
All five former U.S. Secretaries of Education, meeting in a forum last month in Atlanta, agreed that it is important to hold students to high standards.
Education
News In Brief
Principals in Massachusetts will be able to suspend students charged with a felony and expel convicted felons from school, under legislation Gov. William F. Weld signed last week.
Education
Five on Wausau Board Voted Out Over Busing Stands
Voters in Wausau, Wis., have tossed out five school board members for implementing a busing program designed to more evenly distribute poor and minority students.
Education
N.H.'s Obligation To Fund Education Is Affirmed by Court
In a decision with profound implications for a state that trails the
nation in financial support of schools, the New Hampshire Supreme Court
has ruled the state is obligated to fund public education.
Education
Taking the E-Mail Train
From a computer terminal in his office on the edge of the Everglades, Samuel A. Blank can notify principals about potential school closings or discuss the status of a purchase order with administrators at any school in the sprawling Dade County, Fla., district.
Education
Fraud Marred N.Y.C. Elections, Report Says
New York City's most recent community-school-board elections were conducted incorrectly and plagued by fraud and corruption, investigators have concluded.
Ed-Tech Policy
From Cradle to Computer
Cradled amid mountains, mesas, cactus, and copper mines, Winkelman, Ariz., a tiny town about 90 miles southeast of Phoenix, seems an unlikely site for a technological revolution.
Education
Appointments
In the Schools
Brooke C. Burns, counselor, new-teacher division, Independent Educational Services, Princeton, N.J., to director, annual giving and alumni relations, St. Andrew's School, Boca Raton, Fla.
Brooke C. Burns, counselor, new-teacher division, Independent Educational Services, Princeton, N.J., to director, annual giving and alumni relations, St. Andrew's School, Boca Raton, Fla.
Education
Annenberg Gift Prompts Praise And Questions
Education reformers have greeted Walter H. Annenberg's pledge to
donate $500 million to public education with praise for the largest
private gift ever to American public schools--and uncertainty over
where the bulk of the money will go and what it will do.
Education
Inventing the Future
The Media Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is housed in a stark I.M. Pei-designed building that seems to say, "Serious things go on here.'' Its surface, composed of hundreds of large gray squares, is severe, almost uninviting. In his book The Media Lab: Inventing the Future at M.I.T., Stewart Brand likened the structure to "a modern appliance.''
Ed-Tech Policy
Technology Column
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has produced a 12-minute videotape to show educators how they can use the Internet, a global system of computer networks, to improve their teaching.
Education
Milestones
W. Edwards Deming, the quality-control theorist whose philosophy of Total Quality Management has found a following among educators, died last month at age 93.
Education
Gift Grew Out of Philosophy and Personal Chemistry
The process by which Walter H. Annenberg decided to make public
education a primary beneficiary of his massive fortune provides an
interesting tale of philanthropic philosophy and personal chemistry,
according to players in the drama that culminated in last month's
announcement.
Education
N.Y.C. Condom Program Violates Parents' Rights, Court Says
New York City's schools chancellor, Ramon C. Cortines, has proposed a change in the district's condom-distribution program, after a state appellate court ruled late last month that the program violated parental rights.
Ed-Tech Policy
Focus on Technology: Human or Machine? You Be The Judge
In the classic film "2001: A Space Odyssey,'' a computer named HAL learns to think for itself and takes command of a spaceship in a gripping contest between man and machine.
Education
Clinton Likely To Seek Budget Increase for E.D.
Washington
The Clinton Administration is expected to seek significant increases for selected education programs--including its proposed "Goals 2000'' reform strategy--in the fiscal 1995 budget, but will also call for eliminating at least two dozen smaller programs.
The Clinton Administration is expected to seek significant increases for selected education programs--including its proposed "Goals 2000'' reform strategy--in the fiscal 1995 budget, but will also call for eliminating at least two dozen smaller programs.
Education
Governor Seeks $121 Million More For Youth Crimes Programs
Building on Florida's efforts to confront its headline-generating wave of youth-related crime, Gov. Lawton Chiles has presented a 1994-95 budget that calls for spending an additional $121 million on programs to protect schools, assist troubled juveniles, and prevent students from adopting criminal behavior.
Education
National News Roundup
Nearly 39 million non-elderly Americans--9.8 million of them children--had no health insurance in 1992, according to a report by the Employee Benefit Research Institute.
Education
Annenberg's Giving Spans Range of Projects
Walter H. Annenberg's giving to K-12 education began nearly 67 years ago, when, as a graduating senior at the Peddie School in Hightstown, N.J., he gave the private school a $17,000 track, which is still in use.