February 1, 1995
Education Week, Vol. 14, Issue 19
Education
President Talks Tax Credits With College Heads
> President Clinton invited 27 college presidents to a breakfast meeting at the White House last week to solicit support for his proposed tax deduction for college tuition.
Washington
> President Clinton invited 27 college presidents to a breakfast meeting at the White House last week to solicit support for his proposed tax deduction for college tuition.
Education
Criticism, Politics Buffet Boston Superintendent
The superintendent of Boston's public schools has become the focus of harsh criticism and intense speculation over how long she will remain at the helm of the 64,000-student district.
Education
NCATE To Develop Standards for Training Schools
The national accrediting body for teacher preparation announced last week that it will set standards for professional-development schools.
Education
Medium-Sized N.M. Districts Contest Funding System
Nine New Mexico school districts have filed a lawsuit claiming that the state's school-funding system favors large and small districts at the expense of those in between.
Education
Federal File: Inside service
A Newsweek reporter who had access to strategy meetings and negotiations on President Clinton's national-service proposal concludes in a new book that the program "tapped into the American people's best impulses [but] was almost killed by Washington's worst."
Education
Lawmakers Savor Notion of Property-Tax Cuts
Lawmakers in the grip of this year's tax-cut fever are more likely to trim property taxes than any other levy, according to a survey of state legislators.
Education
Clinton Vows To Protect Education Programs, Cut Government
President Clinton vowed in his State of the Union Message last week to fight conservative attacks on his education, student-loan, and national-service initiatives.
Education
Administrators Fear Effect of School-Lunch Cuts
Washington
January was a month of contradictions for Diane Santoro, the food-service director in the Wolcott, Conn., school district.
January was a month of contradictions for Diane Santoro, the food-service director in the Wolcott, Conn., school district.
Education
Teachers Column
About 70 percent of New York City parents give their public schools a passing grade, but most believe that overcrowding, a shortage of books and materials, and rundown buildings mar the district's record, a new survey has found.
Education
Capital Update
Capital Update tracks the movement of legislation, the introduction of notable bills, and routine regulatory announcements.
School Choice & Charters
Freedom Comes at Price For Minn. Charters, Study Says
Minnesota's charter schools--trailblazers in a national reform experiment--have found freedom, but not without some sacrifices.
Education
Philanthropy Column
Although the White House stopped doling out daily "Points of Light'' awards after President George Bush left office, a related foundation designed to boost volunteerism nationwide is still around and back in the news.
Education
Goodling Warns History Standards Could Sink Goals 2000
The chairman of the House Committee on Economic and Educational Opportunities said last week that he had warned the developers of the national history standards that their project could threaten the Goals 2000 program.
Education
Gov. Thompson Pledges To Make School Choice Statewide Option
Gov. Tommy G. Thompson of Wisconsin last week pledged to make public school choice an option statewide, as well as to expand Milwaukee's private-school-voucher program, in a State of the State address boosting his state as a trailblazer in education reform.
Education
$50 Million Annenberg Grant Expected for Phila.
Walter H. Annenberg is expected to award a $50 million grant to the
Philadelphia public schools this week, his fourth gift of this
magnitude to an urban school system in as many months.
Education
Take Note: Courtroom to classroom
The media have rushed to the aid of educators in recent years with special materials about such fast-moving events as the collapse of the Soviet Union and the war in the Persian Gulf. Now two organizations have come up with products designed to help schools teach about another headline-grabbing, if less epochal, event: The murder trial of O.J. Simpson.
Education
Conservatives Vie To Use Momentum To Push Reform Agenda
In the wake of Republican victories in state and federal elections last November, advocates of such school reforms as parental choice, charter schools, and privatization gathered here last week to discuss how to harness the political momentum they sense is swinging their way.
Education
Former Secretaries Urge Abolishing E.D.
Washington
Two former Secretaries of Education urged a House panel last week to abolish the agency they once managed.
Two former Secretaries of Education urged a House panel last week to abolish the agency they once managed.
Education
People Column
Susan H. Fuhrman, a professor of education policy at Rutgers University's Eagleton Institute of Politics, has been nominated dean of the graduate school of education at the University of Pennsylvania.
Education
N.J. Budget Aims To Please Court, Satisfy Tax-Cut Promise
Gov. Christine Todd Whitman of New Jersey proposed a budget last week that increases state aid to poor school districts while cutting funds for wealthy suburban districts.
Education
Gates To Share Book Profits With N.E.A.
When Microsoft founder Bill Gates publishes his book on the information highway, $3 million in profits will go not to Mr. Gates or his Fortune 500 company, but to teachers using new technologies in their schools.
School Choice & Charters
Decide Charter Schools' Federal Status, G.A.O. Urges
Washington
With charter schools becoming more popular, federal officials must decide how to treat them under federal programs that were designed for traditional school districts, the General Accounting Office recommends in a new report.
With charter schools becoming more popular, federal officials must decide how to treat them under federal programs that were designed for traditional school districts, the General Accounting Office recommends in a new report.
Education
High Court Rejects Defense Used in Job-Discrimination Cases
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled last week that employers facing discrimination lawsuits cannot dodge liability by going back to find misconduct in workers' personnel files.
Education
Holmes Group Urges Overhaul Of Ed. Schools
Education schools in the nation's leading research universities must embark on a thorough overhaul of their programs or "surrender their franchise," a report released last week by the Holmes Group says.
Education
State Journal: Big Brother wins; Small papers lose
A battle by several Ohio districts to block statewide electronic collection of student records has been thwarted--for now.
Education
W.Va. Court Reopens Landmark Finance Case
West Virginia's school-finance system goes on trial this month when a judge revisits a landmark 13-year-old court mandate for injecting equity and quality into the state's schools.