May 31, 1989
Education Week, Vol. 08, Issue 36
Education
California Court Weighs School-Safety Provision
Lawyers for the Oakland school district argued last week that California's unique constitutional amendment guaranteeing a safe school environment does not explicitly state that districts can be held liable for any act of violence against a student on campus.
Education
Stephens Unveils Plan To Meet Court's Finance Mandate
Montana's governor last week unveiled his latest proposal for complying with the state supreme court's mandate for the development of a new school-finance system.
Gov. Stanley Stephens' plan, however, was quickly labeled "dead on arrival" by the head of the state's largest teachers' union.
Education
Minnesota To Pilot Test 'Learner Outcomes' System
Minnesota lawmakers have agreed to fund up to 10 research and development sites for the state's new "learner outcomes" system, which has been proposed as an alternative to seat-time curriculum requirements.
Education
New Hampshire Legislature Endorses 7% School-Aid Cut
Faced with a mounting budget deficit and strong local resistance to new taxes, the New Hampshire legislature last week adopted a budget that complied with Gov. Judd Gregg's request to cut school funds by 7 percent.
Education
Supplemental-Funds Measure Approved
The House last week approved a slimmed-down supplemental-appropriations bill for the current fiscal year that includes $892 million to cover shortfalls in the Stafford student-loan program.
Education
Environmental Bill Seen Aiding Grassroots Efforts
The new federal interest in spurring state and local programs in environmental education is coming at the right time, experts say, but it will need to be channeled into workable, long-range plans that do not duplicate past mistakes.
Education
Final Chapter 1 Rules Ask the States To Set 'Standards' on Pupil Progress
The Education Department has issued long-awaited final regulations for the Chapter 1 compensatory-education program that provide some protections for local autonomy, while still giving states substantial authority over local programs.
Education
Fight Over 'Training Wage' Is Nearing Denouement
The proposed "training wage"--a reduced federal minimum wage for teenagers and other new entrants into the labor market--has moved to the forefront of a major political battle between President Bush and the Democratic-controlled Congress.
Education
Survey: 1 in 500 College Students May Have Been Exposed to AIDS
The first large study of the prevalence of aids on college campuses has found that about one in every 500 students tested had been exposed to the virus that causes the deadly disease.
If the results of the study at 19 schools were accurate for all college campuses, researchers said last week, then about 25,000 of the country's 12.5 million college students would test positive for the human immunodeficiency virus, or hiv
Education
Letter to the Editor
Letters To The Editor
I would like to make known to your readers important background information pertinent to the story you ran about my company, Interkal Inc. ("Collapses of School Bleachers Belie Company's Denial of Prior Incidents," May 10, 1989).
The current owners of Interkal did not sell the bleachers that have collapsed. Interkal telescopic bleachers were originally one of several school-related products manufactured by the School Equipment Division of Brunswick Corporation.
Education
Opinion
Balance Among Skills 'Key' to Instruction
Gerald W. Bracey's Commentary on the relationship between "basic" and "higher order" skills ("Advocates of Basic Skills 'Know What Ain't So,"' April 5, 1989) misses the mark on several counts.