March 16, 1988
Postage for third-class nonprofit mail would increase by an average of 0.8 percent per piece, according to Stephen Sharfman, assistant general counsel for the independent commission.
But the board's request for federal funding--which it has pledged to match with $25 million from other sources--has also drawn fire from sectors of the education community.
The three-volume history, which took Mr. Cremin 23 years, begins with the Colonial experience and spans the two centuries of American nationhood, concluding with the present day.
"Frankly, the chasm between the two legislative chambers is just too wide to be bridged without the element we have been lacking for over two years--real leadership from the administration," John Engler, the majority leader of the Republican-controlled Senate, said in a speech before a coalition of education groups this month.
In a two-year study by researchers at the University of California at Berkeley, 118 preschoolers in seven child-abuse programs were interviewed before and after they received the instruction.
The bill, HR 3330, which is to be considered by the Employment Opportunities Subcommittee, would give the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission the power to initiate legal action against federal agencies that refuse to include goals and timetables in their affirmative-action plans.
Mr. Cooperman said he ordered the internal investigation last November after learning of the state legal office's probe of favoritism and other irregularities in the vocational-education division's handling of grant proposals from local school districts and from a vocational clearinghouse associated with Rutgers University.
Unofficial results from the March 5 special election indicate that the proposal was rejected by a vote of 125,837 to 99,050, or 56 percent to 44 percent.
"A change in the market forces us to re-evaluate the plan," which has allowed parents to pay their children's tuition at birth, said Ann Rago, the Pittsburgh university's director of public relations.
When former Secretary Terrel H. Bell published The Thirteenth Man, in which he sharply criticized the Reagan Administration's policies on education and civil rights, Mr. Bennett declined to comment.
The Educational Testing Service said it would no longer supply the city's board of education with scores on the nte because the city is incorrectly setting the cutoff scores needed to pass the examinations.
The groups joined the Council of Chief State School Officers in supporting the provision, which has emerged as a major issue in debate over the pending reauthorization measure, HR 5.
The rats--Boss Hog and Sweetie--are part of a five-week experiment. While the Boss and Sweetie swill Pepsi with their potato chips, two other rats--Casey and Rascal--are being served a balanced diet of nutritious foods from the Kennedy School cafeteria.
Mr. Fuller undertook the private dropout-prevention project with his son, Charles 3rd, and his brother, Walter. He had reportedly come up with the idea after watching a television broadcast in which young blacks equated academic success with "acting white."
The committee decided to remove the proposal from the agenda of next month's Andover town meeting on the advice of the project's planning board, which had argued that a vote in April would be premature since a number of details regarding the proposed school remain to be worked out.