November 22, 1995
Education Week, Vol. 15, Issue 12
Education
Study of Calif. Anti-Drug Education Programs Stirs Debate
A dispute between the California Department of Education and a researcher it hired has drawn new attention to the political and educational difficulties of teaching children to stay away from drugs.
Education
Star Treatment for 1995 American Teacher Award Winners
Some came in sequins, others showed up in tuxedos. Some preened for the paparazzi, others chatted with celebrities. And at least one arranged to have a student's test mailed to her hotel.
Education
Court Again Strikes Down Wyo. Finance System
In declaring Wyoming's school-funding system unconstitutional earlier this month, the state supreme court may have sown the seeds for a new round of school-finance litigation across the country.
Education
Impact-Aid Districts Feeling the Pinch of Budget Impasse
Washington
With cash reserves running low, Barry L. McCombs, the superintendent of the Omak public schools in Washington state, was preparing last week to borrow $407,000 to replace federal impact aid that is being held hostage by the federal budget stalemate.
With cash reserves running low, Barry L. McCombs, the superintendent of the Omak public schools in Washington state, was preparing last week to borrow $407,000 to replace federal impact aid that is being held hostage by the federal budget stalemate.
Recruitment & Retention
Bill To Ax Tenure for Milwaukee Teachers Advances
Wisconsin legislators last week repealed a law that gives tenure to Milwaukee County teachers after three years on the job.
Both chambers of the legislature passed by voice vote a measure that would strip away the job security enjoyed by public school teachers in the city of Milwaukee and 17 surrounding districts for nearly 60 years.
Education
Juvenile Weapons Offenses Double in Decade, Report Says
The number of teenagers arrested for weapons offenses--carrying or selling guns, explosives, and some types of knives--has more than doubled in the past decade, a report by the U.S. Department of Justice says.
Education
State Journal
Officials from the Alabama governor's office and the Alabama Education Association are scrambling to figure out why their promises of more teachers and smaller classes have not come true.
Confused
Officials from the Alabama governor's office and the Alabama Education Association are scrambling to figure out why their promises of more teachers and smaller classes have not come true.
Education
Budget-Reconciliation Highlights
- A House proposal to turn school-meals entitlement programs into a block grant with limited funding is not included in the reconciliation bill but could resurface.
- The bill would freeze inflation adjustments to reimbursement rates paid to schools.
- The bill would bar illegal-immigrant children and certain legal immigrants from receiving subsidized meals.
Special Education
Special Education column
Researchers at the National Institute of Mental Health say they have found further evidence that attention-deficit disorder has a neurobiological basis.
Education
Fla. Bill Seeks To Strengthen Lottery, Education Tie
Florida politicians appear eager to make the connection between the state's lottery and education programs more visible, as the games that have created unexpected millionaires are becoming a bigger and bigger political loser.
Education
Rights Group Challenges Newcomer School
A New York city high school that serves recent immigrants to the United States violates federal law, a civil-rights advocacy group argues in a complaint filed with the U.S. Department of Education.
Education
Accord Preserves Federal School-Meals Guarantee
Washington
After several days of negotiations, Senate leaders prevailed late last week and preserved--at least temporarily--the guarantee of a federally funded school meal for every child who qualifies for one.
After several days of negotiations, Senate leaders prevailed late last week and preserved--at least temporarily--the guarantee of a federally funded school meal for every child who qualifies for one.
Education
Teachers in Wash. District End 37-Day-Long Strike
Calling an end to what had become the longest teachers' strike in Washington state history, teachers in the 2,500-student Fife school district returned to work last week.
Education
Cable-TV Company To Donate Satellite Receivers to Rural Schools
One of the nation's largest cable-television companies pledged last week to donate satellite technology to 10,000 rural schools nationwide that will allow them to receive a wide variety of cable programs and other services.
Education
Budget Ripples Reach State, Local Officials
State and local education officials were beginning to feel the impact of the partial federal government shutdown by late last week.
Education
City Bound
Elaine Koury has heard all the pitfalls of running urban schools. The long hours. The catfights with boards and mayors. The neverending scrape for money. The hopelessness over student achievement.
Education
Federal File
The campaign offices of all the 1996 presidential candidates have created "home pages" on the World Wide Web, the portion of the Internet computer network that employs graphics and allows users to maneuver by clicking a computer mouse. But finding information about education is easier on some home pages than on others.
Campaigning on the Net
The campaign offices of all the 1996 presidential candidates have created "home pages" on the World Wide Web, the portion of the Internet computer network that employs graphics and allows users to maneuver by clicking a computer mouse. But finding information about education is easier on some home pages than on others.
Education
Partnerships column
High school athletes win varsity letters. Student thespians receive
bouquets and applause. But what about students who are active in
community service?
Education
Work-for-Tuition Proposal Floated in Chicago
Roman Catholic educators in Chicago may have found a new way to help parents pay for school: Make students work for it.
Education
Report Contests Huge Boost in School Dollars
Researchers aiming to debunk charges that public schools are a sinkhole for taxpayers' money said last week that school spending has increased much less in recent decades than is widely believed.
Education
What Price Success?
When Kathleen Reeves began the long, intensive effort to gain national certification as an outstanding English teacher, it was big news in suburban Detroit.