February 19, 1986

Education Week, Vol. 05, Issue 23
Education Court Ruling Adds to Confusion On New Balanced-Budget Law
Federal agencies will enact 1986 budget cuts mandated by the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings deficit-reduction act--including a $170.9-million reduction in Education Department spending--despite a federal judicial panel's ruling that the key provision of the law is unconstitutional.
James Hertling, February 19, 1991
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4 min read
Education Better Elementary Leaders Called For
As many as 70 percent of today's elementary-school principals are expected to retire in the next 5 to 10 years, experts told Secretary of Education William J. Bennett's Study Group on Elementary Education last week.
Anne Bridgman, February 19, 1991
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4 min read
Education ‘Dipscam’ Probe Nets 15th Indictment
The Federal Bureau of Investigation's ongoing probe of so-called diploma mills this month resulted in the indictment of the president of "United States University of America" on 15 counts of mail fraud.
William Snider, February 19, 1986
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5 min read
Education Teacher-Pay Demands Spark Alabama Fight
Alabama's superintendent of schools and some of the state's largest education groups have vowed to fight a 5 percent pay raise for teachers proposed by the Alabama Education Association in the face of a predicted revenue shortage.
Lynn Olson, February 19, 1986
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3 min read
Education 1984 School Spending Up, Debt Down
Americans spent $133.9 billion on public schools in fiscal 1984, more than 90 percent of it for K-12 education, according to a report by the Bureau of the Census.
J.R. Sirkin, February 19, 1986
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3 min read
Education Impact of Decision In Norfolk Case Remains Unclear
School-desegregation experts agreed last week that a federal appeals court's ruling permitting the Norfolk public schools to abandon busing in the elementary grades opens the door for school districts across the country to follow in the Tidewater Virginia district's footsteps.
Tom Mirga, February 19, 1986
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5 min read
Education Teachers Spurn an Unsolicited Starting-Pay Proposal
In what may be an unprecedented move, teachers in Montgomery County, Md., one of the nation's largest and most affluent school districts, have rejected an unsolicited school-board offer to boost the starting salary for teachers by a hefty 16 percent.
Blake Rodman, February 19, 1986
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3 min read
Education Special Talents on the Testing Ground
After a week of intensive competition against peers from around the country last month, 35 high-school seniors were named finalists and granted $3,000 unrestricted cash awards by the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts.
February 19, 1986
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Education Opinion Schools Need a 'Neotenic' Revolution
We are in the midst of a period of unprecedented interest in schooling and its improvement in the United States.
Allan Shedlin Jr., February 19, 1986
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4 min read
Education Vermont Law Raises Drinking Age to 21
Gov. Madeleine M. Kunin of Vermont has signed into law a provision that raises the state's drinking age from 18 to 21. The other states in the Northeast have already made that move.
Anne Bridgman, February 19, 1986
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1 min read
Education U.S. Surveys Education-School Computer Use
Nearly 90 percent of the nation's education schools offered computer training to prospective teachers during the 1983-84 school year, according to a new federal study.
William Snider, February 19, 1986
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2 min read
Education Iacocca Loses Liberty Job
Saying he wanted to prevent a potential conflict of interest and uphold the government's integrity before the nation's schoolchildren, Secretary of the Interior Donald P. Hodel last week fired Lee A. Iacocca as head of an advisory commission overseeing the restoration of the Statue of Liberty
Robert Rothman, February 19, 1986
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2 min read
Education New Jersey May Ease Regulations for Bilingual-Education Teachers
The New Jersey Board of Education, in an effort to ease a shortage of bilingual teachers, is considering a proposal to relax certification requirements as a way of encouraging more native-English speakers to enter the field.
James Crawford, February 19, 1986
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8 min read
Education Groups Form Anti-Nazi Coalition
A group of education, labor, religious, community, and political leaders in the Pacific Northwest has formed a coalition aimed at countering what participants see as an infusion of neo-Nazis and white supremacists in the region.
Robert Rothman, February 19, 1986
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1 min read
Education Gov. Earl Follows Reagan Example
Adopting a technique used this year not only by President Reagan but by a fellow governor, Richard Celeste of Ohio, Governor Anthony S. Earl of Wisconsin invited to his state-of-the-state speech citizens that he said exemplify the spirit of the state.
February 19, 1986
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1 min read
Education A Commitment to 'Doing'
"Being is not important. Doing is."
Robert Rothman, February 19, 1986
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2 min read
Education Education Activities To Continue
Officials of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration vowed last week to move forward with the educational activities associated with its teacher-in-space project, including a possible nationwide telecast to schools.
J.R. Sirkin, February 19, 1986
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1 min read
Education Governors To Focus Attention on Child Development
The National Governors' Association, signaling its growing interest in the area of child development, plans to help states develop ways of assessing children's developmental problems at their earliest stages.
Anne Bridgman, February 19, 1986
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5 min read
Education Suicide Cluster Stuns a ‘Most Normal’ School
Three suicides and two attempted suicides within a two-week period at an Omaha high school this month have left local officials stunned and uncertain about how to respond to their highly publicized "suicide cluster."
Elizabeth Rose, February 19, 1986
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4 min read
Education Cleveland Said To Delay Integration
School desegregation is proceeding so slowly in Cleveland that responsibility for its implementation should be transferred to the Ohio Board of Education, a court-appointed monitor has told a federal district judge.
Tom Mirga, February 19, 1986
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2 min read
Education Trashy Humor
Acne Amy, Greaser Greg, Dead Fred, Foul Phil, and the rest of the Garbage Pail Kids are turning up in elementary schools in ever increasing numbers--to the dismay of some principals and teachers.
February 19, 1986
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2 min read
Education Administration's Education Agenda Outlined
The day after releasing his fiscal 1987 budget, Feb. 6, President Reagan submitted to the Congress "Agenda for the Future," a legislative program that "spells out in greater detail how we as Americans can continue to make progress
February 19, 1986
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2 min read
Education Smokeless-Tobacco Bill Cleared
Concerned about "epidemic" use of smokeless tobacco among teen-agers, the Congress has cleared for President Reagan's signature a bill, S 1574, requiring smokeless-tobacco packages and advertisements to carry warning labels similar to those on cigarette packages.
James Hertling, February 19, 1986
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1 min read
Education E.D. To Consider Appeal on Aid For Disabled
The Education Department has formally agreed to consider Massachusetts' appeal of a department order that the state return $676,256 in fiscal 1985 special-education funds.
James Hertling, February 19, 1986
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1 min read
Education Dispute Said Near Settlement
A dispute involving a three-year special-education contract of up to $750,000 to a former federal education official is nearing a settlement, sources say.
James Hertling, February 19, 1986
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1 min read
Education 15 States Cutting Current Budgets, Study Finds
Fourteen states have cut their fiscal 1986 budgets to avert year-end deficits, including several that reduced spending for education, according to a joint report by the National Governors' Association and the National Association of State Budget Officers.
J.R. Sirkin, February 19, 1986
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1 min read
Education Panel To Continue Desegregation Study
The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights voted last week to proceed with a controversial school-desegregation study after two consultants strongly endorsed the project.
Alina Tugend, February 19, 1986
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4 min read
Education Mixed Signals: Computer Plans Frustrated by Incompatibility
Although computer manufacturers have begun to talk about trying to standardize their products, the incompatibility of the hardware and software now on the market is posing a substantial long-range planning problem for school administrators.
William Snider, February 12, 1986
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7 min read