November 23, 1981
These obstacles include complex federal and especially state disposal regulations, the high cost of commercial disposal, and uncooperative landfill operators.
Citing a "greatly limited" availablity of treatment or disposal options for laboratory wastes and the inability of laboratories to comply with alternative waste-disposal methods, including incineration, the federal agency gave laboratories tentative authority to continue to dispose of liquid hazardous waste in landfills, providing they meet certain packaging requirements.
In most states, it is the local board of education.
"When I taught high-school science in Detroit, our offices were in chemical storerooms," commented John A. Novak, now a professor of science education at Ohio State University.
One project that examines some aspects of safety in secondary-school science laboratories was initiated last year by the Consumer Product Safety Commission (csps). According to Abby I. Gerber, a researcher with the commission, researchers worked through the agency's field offices, concentrating their efforts on four areas:
Last week, Education Week reported, with the cooperation of state authorities, that the Minnesota State Department of Education, in an unprecedented move, conducted a one-day statewide purge of hazardous chemicals from the science laboratories and storerooms of its junior and senior high schools.
In response to the question, "Do you think public schools should teach only the scientific theory of evolution, only the biblical theory of creation, or should schools offer both theories?" 76 percent of respondents said the public schools should teach both.
The symposium, sponsored by the Center for the Book at the Library of Congress and several education groups, brought the group together to discuss why and how the partnership between home and school should be strengthened.
Bynum in his decision to remove a dictionary from the state's list of approved textbooks because it contains obscene and scatological words.
The Texas State Board of Education has supported Commissioner of Education Raymon L. The words are the same ones that prompted the U.S. Supreme Court to ban radio broadcast of a monologue by the comedian George Carlin.
More likely sources of the problem, they claim, are regulatory agencies, which issue warnings about certain chemicals but fail to consider how their actions affect schools, and schools of education, which fail to train teachers adequately in lab safety techniques.
The actions were agreed upon after officials stumbled onto an assortment of old and potentially-hazardous chemicals in a number of high schools that were being closed because of declining enrollment.
Richard S. Jones Jr., interim headmaster of St. Michael's School, Stuart, Fla., to headmaster.
In his testimony before the House Subcommittee on Elementary, Secondary, and Vocational Education, G. William Hoagland, administrator of usda's Food and Nutrition Service, said that the agency had provided President Reagan with several options for changing the school-lunch regulations to meet the program's reduced budget. (See Databank on page 10.)