March 16, 1983
The survey, which queried 433 students at public, private, and parochial high schools, found that more than three-fourths of the students admitted to having cheated on tests or on homework at some time. Most of those responding said that "cheating was common whether an honor system was used in their schools or not," according to a summary of the survey.
For some years now, the federal government has helped with funds to subsidize [family-planning] clinics. In providing for this, the Congress decreed that every effort would be made to maximize parental participation [when birth-control materials are prescribed for underage girls]. Nevertheless, the drugs and devices are prescribed without getting parental consent or giving notification. Girls termed "sexually active"--that has replaced the word "promiscuous"--are given this help in order to prevent illegitimate birth or abortion.
In a project that involves the entire school district, one 4th-grade class operates a postal system that delivers letters written by students of every age to their recipients in other buildings and classrooms.
Lawyers for the school district filed papers with the court late last month asking Judge James C. Crumlish Jr. to delay the hearing, which was scheduled to begin on March 1.
In a report released this month, the Senate Committee on Post Audit and Oversight of the state legislature noted that the number of students receiving special-education services under Chapter 766, the state special-education law, is more than twice the national average.
The project--directed, appropriately enough, by an assistant professor of education named John Camp--will result this summer in five boarding-camp sessions in Lapeer, Mich. The cost of the two-week program is $795.
The books, a world history text and a guide to marriage and family living, won't be banned. Instead, teachers in the district will be notified in writing of the pro-religious portions of the books.
The nonprofit organization, called Western Services Systems, was founded 10 years ago for the purpose of working on a grass-roots level to involve Colorado's Hispanic parents more fully in the public-school system, said the organization's president, William Rosser. About 15 percent of Colorado's students are Hispanic, and in the Denver public schools, Hispanics and blacks outnumber whites, he said.
U.S. District Judge Donald Alsop granted a preliminary injunction on March 10 preventing the government from enforcing the law, which was passed by the Congress as an amendment to a Defense Department appropriations bill and signed by President Reagan last September. The amendment was offered by Representative Gerald B. Solomon, Republican of New York.
By creating the Wisconsin Foundation for Educational Administration, says Thomas R. Grogan, legal counsel to the group, the administrators gain the money-saving advantage of nonprofit mailing status and the ability to raise tax-deductible support from private sources and to seek government grants. The association, which will continue its separate membership and lobbying activities, is classified as a trade association under the federal tax code.
Noting the "special responsibility" of colleges and universities to help strengthen secondary and elementary schools, John Brademas, nyu's president, said the new fund would provide up to 50 scholarships of $2,000 each and would be supplemented by additional financial aid based on students' need.
The President unveiled the new measure during a meeting of evangelical Christians in Orlando, Fla. A similar initiative that he supported last year failed to win the support of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Spokesmen for the dissenting students said they were most concerned with repealing the so-called Solomon amendment, a measure passed by the Congress that would prohibit the granting of federal aid to male students who refuse to register for the draft.