April 28, 1982
Education Week, Vol. 01, Issue 31
Education
Advisory Councils Reshaped To Reflect Reagan's Policies
The Reagan Administration has begun replacing members of the Education Department's (ed) eight Presidential advisory committees--many of whose members were appointed by former President Jimmy Carter--with supporters of the current Administration's policies.
Education
Vouchers in Holland Have Led to Control of Private Schools
At a time when interest in government support of private schools is high, the experiences of countries with large amounts of this type of support--such as the Netherlands, Australia, and Canada--are of particular interest to education researchers.
Education
Head Start Classes Will Be Extended In 65 Locations
Declaring Head Start part of the Reagan Administration's "social safety net," Secretary of Health and Human Services (hhs) Richard S. Schweiker announced plans to convert all summer Head Start programs to full-time status.
Education
Suits in Calif. Ask Full Funding of State-Mandated Programs
"If the state of California mandates a school program and doesn't fully fund it, the program isn't mandated."
Education
Impounded Library Funds May Be Released
U.S. Education Department (ed) officials said late last week that they would ask the Office of Management and Budget to begin distributing federal funds for library services and construction if Congress failed to act on President Reagan's request for rescissions in the fiscal 1982 budget by midnight on April 23.
Seven states filed suit on March 5 in U.S. District Court in New York seeking the release of nearly $20 million in federal library-services funds that they claim President Reagan illegally impounded. Reagan Administration officials said they were holding onto the funds pending a decision by Congress to act on the rescission request.
Education
'New Right,' Adversaries Square Off In Forum on
Indianapolis--Christian fundamentalists and representatives of the "New Right" engaged adversaries from the academic world and the clergy last week in a national conference on religion and censorship in public education.
Education
Reagan's Proposed Amendments Introduced in Senate
The Reagan Administration's proposed amendments to the Bilingual Education Act, which would permit a mix of educational approaches in meeting the needs of language-minority students, was introduced in the Senate last week.
S 2412, the "Bilingual Education Improvements Act of 1982," was introduced April 21 by Senator S.I. Hayakawa, Republican of California, and was expected to be the subject of discussions at a Senate subcommittee hearing April 23 and 26.
Education
Books Column
Of General Interest
Educating, by D. Bob Gowin (Cornell University Press, 124 Roberts Pl., Ithaca, N.Y. 14850; 210 pages; $18.50).
Education
Colleges Column
Many high-school seniors would welcome the opportunity to serve in the military if the U.S. government paid for their college education in return, according to a national study conducted by the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research.
The students surveyed were asked to react to the following idea: three years' service in the military at low pay followed by a college education--with the government picking up the tab for tuition plus $300 a month in living expenses for up to four academic years.
Education
Budget Battle Not Yet Won, Lobbyists Are Warned
Education lobbyists were advised by members of the House and Senate last week to reevaluate their assumption that Congress is certain to spare federal education programs from further budget cuts during the 1983 fiscal year.
Education
Supreme Court To Decide Tax-Exemption Dispute
The U.S. Supreme Court last week broke its three-month silence on the issue of tax exemptions for private schools that discriminate on the basis of race, announcing that it will decide two related cases next fall.
Education
Articles Angers Women's Mathematics Group
A news account of a study that found boys far outnumbered girls in a group of high achievers in mathematics has angered a group of female mathematics educators meeting here recently.
Education
Organization of Mathematics Teachers Urged To Set
Because of the growing shortage of mathematics teachers and widespread use of unqualified replacements, the president-elect of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (nctm) told members that their organization should act like other professional organizations--such as the American Medical Association--in monitoring the profession.
Education
Collection of Data For Meal Program Is Halted In California
California's 1,043 school districts, following a federal-court injunction against the law governing the national school-lunch program, last week stopped collecting the Social Security numbers of adults living in the homes of children who receive free or reduced-price lunches.
Education
Pennsylvania Bill Gives Incentives For Retirement
About 10,700 Pennsylvania teachers will be eligible for a one-time offer of early retirement this summer if the state legislature passes a bill supported by Gov. Richard L. Thornburgh.
Education
Legislature News Roundup
Public-education officials in Ohio were pleased two weeks ago when Gov. James A. Rhodes proposed that a temporary 40-percent surcharge be tacked onto the state income tax instead of the 25-percent surcharge approved by the state Senate.
But within a few days, the Governor's office of budget and management revised its revenue forecast, predicting a shortfall of $1.2 billion to $1.5 billion, rather than the $1 billion that had been projected.
Education
Va. District's Teacher-Layoff Policy Gives Discretion to Principals
A controversial personnel policy adopted recently by the Arlington, Va., school board that would allow principals considerable discretion in exempting certain teachers from districtwide layoffs is expected to save the jobs of some teachers at the expense of their more senior colleagues.
Education
20 Michigan School Districts Raising Funds For Court Challenge
More than 20 Michigan school districts are chipping in to finance a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the state's school aid formula.
Education
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English-speaking students--that put pressure on districts to meet the more prescriptive new guidelines. Eventually, a school district took the government to court over the legal force of the guidelines, and the outcome of the case--Northwest Arctic School District v. Califano--was a consent decree under which the government agreed that the guidelines were unenforceable and said it would promulgate official rules for the enforcement of Title VI. Education Department officials have been wrangling over new compliance guidelines ever since. President Carter's Education Secretary, Shirley Hufstedler, provoked enormous antipathy in the education community when she forwarded the proposals Secretary Bell later withdrew. They would have mandated native-language instruction in the some 500 "Lau districts."
Education
Washington File
Although speculation that Terrel H. Bell is planning to resign as Secretary of Education continued here last week, the executive assistant to Mr. Bell has denied that the Secretary is planning to leave the Education Department.
Elam Hertzler, who is also chief of the Secretary's staff, attempted in a brief interview to put to rest three of the most widely circulated rumors concerning Mr. Bell.
English Learners
New Bilingual Policy Emerging; Strategy Debated
While the Reagan Administration has reached a decision on how it wishes to amend the Bilingual Education Act, it has yet to resolve an ongoing debate among policymakers in the U.S. Education Department (ed) over how to replace the proposed bilingual-education rules withdrawn last year by Education Secretary Terrel H. Bell.
Education
Federal News Roundup
As the "secret" negotiations over the fiscal 1983 federal budget continued last week between Congressional leaders and officials of the Reagan Administration, reports that the negotiators have agreed to "freeze" spending for domestic programs at fiscal 1982 levels were circulating in Washington.
The reported agreement, which would hold spending for the Education Department at $13 billion, has aroused the ire of Democratic Representative Carl D. Perkins of Kentucky, the chairman of the House Committee on Education and Labor.
Education
Senate Panel Approves Job-Training Measure
Members of the Senate Subcommittee on Employment and Productivity agreed late last week on the provisions of a bill to create a program to replace the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (ceta), which is scheduled to expire this September.
Education
Colorado Legislator Seeks Cutoff of Funds To Schools Teaching
A fight against the teaching of "secular humanism" in public schools, waged since last spring by the chairman of the House education committee in the Colorado legislature, could soon be continued in court.
Education
Mo. Lawmakers Quarrel Over Cigarette-Tax Gain
What started as a legislative attempt to raise money for Missouri's public schools by increasing the tax on cigarettes has developed into a political donnybrook that may ultimately yield relatively little for the schools.
Education
Comic Relief, Serious Talk Mix at Boards' Meeting
Atlanta--In a chilly subterranean assembly hall in Atlanta's World Congress Center last week, 15,000 members of the National School Boards Association (nsba) clustered in semi-darkness to hear a speech by Art Buchwald.