March 13, 1996

Education Week, Vol. 15, Issue 25
Education Kentucky Judge Upholds Statewide Testing Program
A state judge in Kentucky has ruled that the statewide testing program there does not violate the constitutional rights of a family that objected to its children's required participation.
March 13, 1996
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States Many Governors Touting Technology As a Magic Bullet
Technology fever is sweeping state capitals, and many governors seem to believe nothing is impossible in a classroom that has access to the Internet.
Peter West, March 13, 1996
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School Climate & Safety Uprooted by Floods, Students Have New School To Call Home
The 500 students of the Valmeyer Community School are home again.
March 13, 1996
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School & District Management Five Members of Va. School Board Resign
Five members of the Virginia Beach, Va., school board have resigned after a special grand jury declared that some board members were fiscally irresponsible and "unfit for further service."
Jessica Portner, March 13, 1996
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Education D.C. Board Slashes Fund
The District of Columbia school board has cut $1 million from its current fiscal year funding for substitute teachers, a move that will severely restrict the use of substitutes for the rest of this semester.
March 13, 1996
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Education Teachers
Teachers in New York state know social promotion when they see it. More than two-thirds of the state's elementary school teachers have been pressured to promote students who were not ready academically to move to the next grade, a recent survey found.
March 13, 1996
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Special Education Action Expected Soon On Special-Ed. Plans
Washington
After months of behind-the-scenes discussions and multiple drafts of bills to reauthorize the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act, lawmakers are gearing up to take action on the landmark special-education law.
Lynn Schnaiberg, March 13, 1996
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Education People
The four finalists who have been chosen for the 1996 National Teacher of the Year program met last week in Washington for their final interviews with a national selection committee.
March 13, 1996
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School Choice & Charters Despite Full-Court Press, Wash. Charter Bill Likely To Die
Some lawmakers in Washington state may now think twice before calling for more "parental involvement" in schools.
Drew Lindsay, March 13, 1996
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Education Take Note: Hands off; Hitting the high
Seventh graders at Jaffrey-Rindge Middle School in Jaffrey, N.H., are rallying round the frog.
Adrienne D. Coles, March 13, 1996
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Education Funding New Budgets More Generous, But Education Cuts Remain
Congress acted last week on separate bills that would fund the Education Department and other agencies through the end of the fiscal year that began Oct. 1, but at levels so low that President Clinton has vowed to veto them.
Robert C. Johnston, March 13, 1996
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School & District Management Opinion Turnover in the Superintendency: A Hazard to Leadership and Reform
When Ramon C. Cortines, the schools chancellor in New York City, resigned under pressure from City Hall last June, people in the schools were dismayed. According to The New York Times, a 9th-grade student worried, "What's going to happen to us?" and a teacher complained, "There's been no one to stay the course." Turnover at the top had again disrupted the life and work of a troubled school district that had seen four new chancellors in just seven years.
Susan Moore Johnson, March 13, 1996
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Assessment Opinion Good News, Bad News: A Hazard to Leadership and Reform
A recent Newsweek article posed the following question: "Are the schools getting better, worse, or just jogging in place?" and then responded, "The answer is yes and no and all of the above."
Laurence Ogle & Patricia Dabbs, March 13, 1996
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School Choice & Charters Opinion The End of Independent Schools: A Fantasy for the New Millennium
By the end of the first decade of the new millennium, the demise of independent schools was nearly complete. What had been as recently as the end of the 1990s a system of a thousand blooms, all of differing varieties but with common roots, had been sufficiently extirpated or grafted onto new hosts that the original species had all but become extinct.
Patrick F. Bassett, March 13, 1996
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Education Letter to the Editor Letters to the Editor

Stance on Pre-K Academics Shows Growth Misconceptions

March 13, 1996
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Curriculum Curriculum Updates
Next year, when Naomi Klarreich is not developing new theories to help physicists understand the nature of space and time, she'll be working to improve the quality of math instruction in the Cleveland public schools.
Meg Sommerfeld, March 13, 1996
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