October 12, 1983
Education Week, Vol. 03, Issue 06
Education
E.D. Report Sets Asbestos Cleanup At $1.4 Billion
A report from the U.S. Education Department to the Senate Appropriations Committee has estimated that it would cost $1.4 billion to remove asbestos from the approximately 14,000 public and private schools that contain the potentially hazardous substance.
Education
Bell Asks Boards For Increase In Leadership
In a speech to Hispanic school-board members here this month, Secretary of Education Terrel H. Bell criticized the nation's school boards for paying too little attention to instructional issues and called on them to take a leadership role in upgrading educational standards.
Ed-Tech Policy
California Enacts Computer Bill
Gov. George Deukmejian of California has signed legislation that streamlines the state's educational-computer initiatives and could significantly increase aid to school districts.
Under the legislation, a new organization called the Educational Technology Committee could by next summer be coordinating a $30-million annual program for equipment purchases, teacher training, and software development.
Education
Judge Offers To Unfreeze Funds If Reagan Will Act on Chicago
A federal district judge indicated last week that he will release $15.7- million in frozen Education Department funds if the Reagan Administration provides the Chicago public schools with $20 million in desegregation assistance.
Education
As the New Session Begins, Court Adds New Education Cases, Rejects Others
The U.S. Supreme Court announced last week, on the first day of its 1983-84 term, that it would review the right of nontenured teachers to seek protection under a federal civil-rights law that permits individuals to seek damages for violations of constitutional rights.
Education
N.E.H. To Award Summer Grants
The National Endowment for the Humanities last week announced a $66.1-million grants program for the coming year that will not only extend the agency's summer institutes for teachers (see Education Week, Aug. 24, 1983), but will also introduce summer programs for secondary-school principals and students.
The new round of grants also includes funding for a program to prepare elementary-school teachers to teach Homer's Odyssey.
Education
Philadelphia School Chief Submits Voluntary Desegregation Plan
Under the terms of a Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court order, Constance E. Clayton, Philadelphia's superintendent of schools, last week submitted a new desgregation plan for the 202,000-student district to the State Human Relations Commission, the agency with jurisdiction over desegregation in Pennsylvania.
Education
Opinion
Inequality, Testing, Utilitarianism: The 'Three Killers of Excellence'
Be assured that I am not planning to reiterate the series of truisms and cliches characteristic of most recent reports on educational reform.
Ed-Tech Policy
Opinion
Computers Are the Current Fad, 'But Are They Doing Any Good?'
Although computer use tends to be associated with mathematics instruction, programs for use in all curricular areas are being developed at a feverish rate.