August 3, 1988 Extra Edition
The probe began with allegations of theft and bribery in the Woodbridge school district. (See Education Week, April 13, 1988.)
Beginning this fall, public schools in Georgia will teach courses based on a uniform statewide curriculum.
Officials of the Buckingham Browne & Nichols Schooladopted the guidelines after the school's headmaster was fined for failing to inform state authorities about sexual-abuse allegations against one of its teachers.
About 50,000 brochures on teaching as a profession have been sent to those responding to the ads.
Both states are under federal instructions to replace several thousand teen-age bus drivers with adults. So far, they have yet to come up with enough eligible drivers.
High-school athletes in Tupelo, Miss., face mandatory drug testing beginning this fall under a plan adopted last month by the Tupelo city school board.
If the bill is signed into law, federal reimbursement rates for school breakfasts would increase by 3 cents per meal for every participating child.
His spokesman, Loye W. Miller, said Mr. Bennett has been out of town most of the summer, which he said is usually a quiet period in the Secretary's office.
The survey of 10,820 adults from nine nations concluded that many Americans "appear to be lacking in basic geographic knowledge and skills,'' such as the ability to name the NATO countries or to locate England on a map of Europe.
In a unanimous ruling, the New York State Court of Appeals held last month that the Monroe-Woodbury school district was not required under state law to provide a separate facility for handicapped children from the Orthodox Jewish village of Kiryas Joel.
The $1.46-billion precollegiate education appropriation represents an 11 percent increase over last year's spending level.