September 28, 1983
Education Week, Vol. 03, Issue 04
Education
Floridians Don't Spare the Rod, But Some Now Say They Should
On about 200,000 occasions this year, a Florida school official will hit a child--sometimes more than once--with a hand or a wooden paddle.
Education
Action To Be Sought on Tax-Credit Bill
In coming weeks, the Reagan Administration will try to move its tuition tax-credit bill through the Senate by attaching it as a rider to another piece of legislation that has a good chance of being passed, educators and Senate sources say.
The Senate Finance Committee approved the Administration's bill, S528, last May, but the Republican leadership in the Senate has been reluctant to push for a full Senate vote, for fear that it would be defeated.
Education
L.A. Schools Avert Walkout; Chicago Authorizes Strike
In a sudden shift in negotiating positions last week, officials of the Los Angeles Unified School District and the United Teachers-Los Angeles agreed to table the two most controversial issues in their current contract talks, apparently averting the possibility of a strike that would affect 550,000 students, according to district officials.
Education
Education 'Summit' Endorsed By House Panel's Witnesses
In hearings before the House Subcommittee on Elementary, Secondary, and Vocational Education this month, educators and state officials from across the country strongly endorsed a Congressional proposal for a national summit conference on education, but they disagreed over its purpose, focus, cost, and even who should host and participate in the conference.
Education
Letter to the Editor
Letters to the Editor
Your article, "Court Ruling Heats Tax-Credit Debate" (Education Week, July 27, 1983), noted that some people have criticized the Supreme Court's decision upholding Minnesota's tuition-deduction law on the grounds that it promotes religion in violation of the First Amendment.
This view, though widely held, is not based in history. As Robert Cord has demonstrated in his masterful Separation of Church and State: Historical Fact and Current Fiction, not all government support for religion is unconstitutional. In fact, when the First Amendment was written, five states had established religions. James Madison's proposal to ban these state religions was soundly defeated.
Education
Opinion
Is Religious Speech a Protected Right
The case is called Lisa Bender v. The Williamsport School District, and a couple of years from now, if it goes up to the U.S. Supreme Court, the issues raised by Ms. Bender and other high-school students who brought this suit will be debated fiercely throughout the land.