January 13, 1988
The board's decision, reached during an emergency closed-door session on Jan. 2, helped defuse a controversy that had raged for 10 days in the 120,000-student system.
The Paterson Board of Education last week voted to draw up charges of insubordination and unbefitting conduct against Joe Clark, the principal of Eastside High School. The board contends that he unfairly suspended the students without a hearing, and that he unlawfully locked school fire doors during the day.
In a unanimous decision late last month, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held that U.S. District Judge Leonard B. Sand had acted "well within the proper bounds of discretion" in issuing a set of remedial orders in the case, including one requiring the city to build 200 units of subsidized housing in predominantly white neighborhoods.
Boston's strong economy should be capable of providing employment "for every young person willing to work," he said in an address marking the start of his second term.
A Conference Board survey of 372 Fortune 500 companies released last week showed a total of $1.7 billion donated by the corporations to charitable organizations in 1986.
The educational consultant Lewis J. Perelman argues in a report published by the National School Boards Association that the focus of the school-reform movement has been misplaced because it fails to adequately address the issue of increasing the productivity of resources available for education.
His triumph, however, may turn out to be less than total.
Under the terms of the settlement, John Katzman, president of the coaching concern, has admitted that Princeton Review included 17 slightly altered sat questions in its course materials. The company will pay ets $52,000 and grant it the right to inspect coaching materials over the next four years.
Princeton Review, which Mr. Katzman described as the largest sat-preparation service in the country, last year coached 18,000 students in 35 cities on how to improve their scores on the test.
The Ohio educators are planning to hold a "youth summit" when their visitors arrive, during which students from both countries will develop a plan for world peace that will later be presented to the leaders of both countries.
Under the proposal presented to the board last month, prospective principals would be required to complete a master's degree in management or "leadership science," pass a state-developed examination, and undergo a thorough performance evaluation at a state-approved assessment center, said Leo Klagholz, director of teacher preparation and licensure for the state education department.
Mr. Bennett announced the new grant program last month in a speech before the White House Conference for a Drug-Free America in New York City.
School districts in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia canceled classes or adopted other conservation measures following the collapse of an Ashland Oil Company diesel-fuel tank Jan. 2 that polluted the water along the Monongahela and Ohio rivers.
According to the analysis, only one-third of all children betweeen the ages of 6 and 9 attend daily physical-education classes, and most do not have the opportunity to participate in fitness testing.