August 17, 1983
Brian Hartz of Eastwood High School in El Paso, Tex., Carl Micarelli of Winter Park High School in Winter Park, Fla., and Donna Shafer of Stonewall Jackson High School in Mt. Jackson, Va., completed preselected short stories written by Stephen King, Isaac Asimov, and Belva Plain, according to Nancy Martin, Doubleday's publicity assistant.
Following is the text of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in the case Mueller v. Allen, in which the Court upheld a Minnesota law that grants state income-tax deductions for educational expenses incurred by parents of students enrolled in public or private schools. The entire texts of the majority opinion by Associate Justice William H. Rehnquist and the dissenting opinion by Associate Justice Thurgood Marshall are included. In the pages that follow, single asterisks in brackets [
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The trust fund, which would operate as a subsidiary of the Government Development Bank, would receive one-half of 1 percent of all revenues up to $3 billion each year; three-quarters of 1 percent of all revenues between $3 billion and $4 billion, and 1 percent of revenues in excess of $4 billion annually. The fund would not be used until revenues had accumulated for 10 years.
To give himself "flexibility" in dealing with the state's finances, Mr. Deukmejian deleted a provision in the bill that would have provided a $1.9-billion increase in the 1984-85 education budget. This year's budget includes an $800-million hike.
Virginia Newman, the mother of a 9th-grade student, was ordered by District Judge Diane C. Schulte to stay overnight in jail as a penalty for her failure to ensure her daughter's attendance.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit reached that decision last month in a case involving Peter Duro, a fundamentalist Christian whose wife has been teaching their five children at home.
They had to wait 40 years, but the members of the Clay County (W.Va.) High School class of 1943 finally got their yearbooks this summer.
The 74 graduates of the class were forced to forgo 'their annuals when they graduated because World War II had created a paper shortage. But, as a result of some enterprising, if belated, investigative work on the part of a few class members, those school days in the small, rural town of 450 northwest of Charleston have been recreated.
The meeting was convened by Derek Bok, president of Harvard University, and Donald Kennedy, president of Stanford University.
History and experience likewise instruct usthat any generally available financial assistancefor elementary and secondary school tuitionexpenses mainly will further religious educationbecause the majority of the schoolswhich charge tuition are sectarian.
The measure, approved on July 30, boosts funds for special-education grants to the states by $970 million, for special-education resource centers by $1.2 million, and for "centers for independent living" by $2.1-million.
From that vantage point, I would like to demur from the observations in the article, "To Democratize Science: Curricula for 'Citizens."' You write that the "... curriculum materials ... developed in the 1960's ... deliberately avoided applied science." In support of that position, you quote Paul deHart Hurd as saying that the curriculum designers "were 100 percent opposed to the notion of applications" and Robert Yager, who says, "All the mainline curriculum efforts got rid of applications."