October 24, 1984

Education Week, Vol. 04, Issue 08
Education Wisconsin Governor Urges Boards To Support Reforms
Gov. Anthony S. Earl of Wisconsin this month admonished local school boards not to press the tradition of local control at the expense of needed efforts to enhance education statewide.
Anne Bridgman, October 24, 1984
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Education News Update
The owner of a meat-processing plant that supplied meat to the federal school-lunch program was sentenced this month to six years in prison and was fined $70,000 for selling contaminated meat from June 1981 until December 1983.

Chief Judge Sherman G. Finesilver of the U.S. District Court for Colorado imposed the prison term on Rudy Stanko Jr., owner of the Cattle King Meat Packing Company, after a jury of 14 found Mr. Stanko guilty on charges of conspiracy to violate the federal meat-in-spection act. (See Education Week, Aug. 22, 1984.) The judge also sentenced Cattle King's chief salesman, Gary Waderich, to 15 months in prison.

October 24, 1984
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Education District News Roundup
President Reagan's criticism this month of the busing system used to desegregate schools in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school district in North Carolina spurred an angry editorial in the local paper and enraged a number of school officials and local politicians.

The President's remarks were "ill-timed and ill-informed," according to Robert C. Hanes, deputy superintendent for the Charlotte-Mecklenburg schools. Mr. Hanes, a Democrat, said school officials "were distressed and angry" about the speech given at an Oct. 8 campaign rally in their city.

October 24, 1984
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Education People News
Appealing to the "generosity and public spirit" of independent-school leaders, John E. Coons, the University of California, Berkeley, law professor who is an active proponent of parental choice in education, appeared this month before the National Association of Independent Schools' commission on educational issues to advocate educational vouchers.

Mr. Coons told the commission, which met in Cambridge, Mass., that tuition tax credits and deductions are of use to middle-class and wealthy families but will not greatly increase the number of "talented youth whose school choices will be effectively enlarged."

October 24, 1984
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Education Removal of Authority From Schools Will Imperil Reforms, Report Warns
The current education-reform movement will not work if it attempts to "mandate" excellence and shift control from individual schools and teachers to state departments of education, legislatures, and governors' offices.
Lynn Olson, October 24, 1984
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Education Opinion Confronting Playground Terrorists
I guess it's as hard being the father as it is being the child. Somehow, I don't remember growing up being this hard. But now I see it's just as tough on the parents as it is on the children.
James K. Aumack, October 24, 1984
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Education Opinion Schools Must Ease the Impact of Teen-Age Pregnancy and Parenthood
Pregnant teen-agers and pre-teens are students in our elementary and secondary schools--that is, until they drop out, as so many do.
Margaret C. Dunkle & Susan M. Bailey, October 24, 1984
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Education Letter to the Editor Letters to the Editor
For more than two years, I have been researching the subject of asbestos as a full-time occupation. Because I come from a background of journalism and because I recently co-authored a book on asbestos, I have been in contact with an unusually large number of reporters attempting to write on this topic.

I have provided information on asbestos to two of the major television networks in New York, The New York Times, magazines, union publications, and newspapers across the country.

October 24, 1984
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