September 16, 1987
The Ramsay County District Court halted the sales on Aug. 29, pending a hearing later this month in a suit that charges Gov. Rudy Perpich and other top officials with mismanaging the state's school lands.
What the researchers termed the "runaway phenomenon" of the increasing institutionalization of young people was the topic of a seminar at the conference here last month. Citing their own work and other recent studies, the researchers said the number of youths admitted to private psychiatric hospitals increased by as much as 400 percent from 1980 to 1984.
Officials of the 68-year-old St. Thomas Choir School, attempting to fight Manhattan's soaring real-estate costs, commissioned the New York City firm of Buttrick, White & Burtis to construct suitable living, study and recreation quarters on a tiny 7,500- square-foot site.
District superintendents have too many responsibilities, school principals often "don't inspire and don't lead," and school-board members are not prepared well enough for their jobs, Mr. Frazier told the Colorado Association of School Executives. He retired Aug. 31 after 14 years as commissioner.
The department offered the compromise to the Bridgeport Baptist and Sheridan Road Baptist schools, which filed suit in 1980 challenging a law that requires private schools to employ only certified teachers. The schools claimed that this stipulation and other state standards violated their constitutional rights, including their right to the free exercise of religion.
Schools should reverse that trend by providing programs "that will help students better understand both their rights and responsibilities as citizens," according to Citizenship: Goal of Education, released last week by the American Association of School Administrators.
The grant will double the budget for the center, which was established last year by the surviving families of the seven astronauts killed aboard the space shuttle Challenger.
Nursery-school enrollment at nais schools grew by 10.3 percent last year, the largest increase registered by any grade level. The greater demand for preschool programs convinced 22 schools to open their doors to 3- and 4-year-olds, bringing the total number offering preschool to 302.
Beyond Conformity or Rebellion: Youth and Authority in America, by Gary Schwartz (University of Chicago Press, 5801 South Ellis Ave., Chicago, Ill. 60637; 307 pp., $24.95 cloth). In terms more flexible than the conventional polarity, attempts to define the relations of youth and authority in the wake of the counterculture movement of the 60's. Argues that deviance must be understood in the context of the culture of the local community.
Secretary of Education William J. Bennett has unveiled a $225,000 advertising campaign in which he urges Americans to "slam the door on drugs in our schools." The Secretary stars in the public-service radio and television spots. In the latter, he is seen walking school corridors and slamming the door of a locker to illustrate his point.
State Representative John Harper received the group's vote of approval this month "because we believe he is the best candidate for public education and continued education reform," said David Allen, president of the union and chairman of the kea-pac.
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People had filed a suit against the state department of education and the district in late August to prevent the dispersal to several other schools of students from the James Lick Middle School, which was one of 18 schools targeted for increased funding and special academic programs in a 1985 desegregation agreement. The district needed the Lick facility to house 2,000 students from a nearby high school that is to undergo a year-long asbestos-removal effort.
A panel of 16 experts in the field reviewed materials from 165 libraries, which were nominated in 14 program areas, including services to special populations, instruction in literacy, innovative uses of technology, and models for joint library-teacher involvement in student learning.