November 1, 1995
Education Week, Vol. 15, Issue 09
Education
Budget-Cutting Bills Advance; School-Funding Bill Stalls
Washington
The House passed a vast bill late last week that would curb entitlement spending on programs such as Medicaid, student loans, welfare, and school meals--and radically restructure many programs--as part of the Republican majority's seven-year balanced-budget plan.
The House passed a vast bill late last week that would curb entitlement spending on programs such as Medicaid, student loans, welfare, and school meals--and radically restructure many programs--as part of the Republican majority's seven-year balanced-budget plan.
Education
Voters in Nearly 120 Ohio Districts Asked To Approve Tax Levies
Cincinnati and dozens of other Ohio school districts have given voters a choice: Pass local property-tax levies or watch programs get axed.
Education
7 Students Die in Ill. Train-Bus Crash
Seven high school students were killed and two dozen were injured last week when a commuter train crashed into a school bus at a railroad crossing in Fox River Grove, Ill.
Education
39 Percent of Schools Require Arts for Graduation
Although a majority of school administrators say the arts are a
vital part of the public school curriculum, fewer than half the
nation's high schools include them in graduation requirements, a
federal survey has found.
Education
Fla. Jury Awards Soccer PlayerTargeted by Rival Coach $277,000
A jury in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., has awarded $277,000 to a former high school soccer player who was injured in 1992 after a rival coach told his players to "waste him."
Education
PBS Program Looks at Life From a Dog's Point of View
The Public Broadcasting Service has taken its dog-eared copies of classic literature and turned them into an amusing new children's-television series designed to promote reading.
Education
Debate on 'V-Chip' Moves From 'If' to 'How'
Washington
Support among federal lawmakers for technology that would give parents an easy way to screen out violent television shows is so strong that the debate is turning to the question of how such a system would be put in place.
Support among federal lawmakers for technology that would give parents an easy way to screen out violent television shows is so strong that the debate is turning to the question of how such a system would be put in place.
Education
Record Increase in Special-Education Students Reported
Washington
The number of children receiving special-education services grew 4.2 percent from the 1992-93 school year to the 1993-94 year--the largest increase since the federal government started tracking such information in 1976, according to the Department of Education.
The number of children receiving special-education services grew 4.2 percent from the 1992-93 school year to the 1993-94 year--the largest increase since the federal government started tracking such information in 1976, according to the Department of Education.
Education
Mixed Record For Coalition Schools Is Seen
A brown banner hangs at one end of the cavernous atrium at Paul M. Hodgson Vocational-Technical High School here. "Coalition of Essential Schools," it reads--a hanging advertisement of the school's pride in belonging to that national school-reform network.
Education
Iowa Panel Proposes No Changes In Control of Fiber-Optics Network
Iowa officials should retain management of their ambitious 3,000-mile fiber-optics network, at least through 2002, a special commission recommended last week.
Education
People Column
Almost every weekday at 2:30, when the bell rings at Valley View Elementary School in Abilene, Texas, couselor Jan Hughes takes an extra step for her students. She walks them home.
Education
Captial Update
Capital Update tracks the movement of legislation, the introduction of notable bills, and routine regulatory announcements.
Education
Calif. Districts Get 3 Options To Spend $279 Million Grant
California school districts are about to share a $279 million windfall from state lawmakers, but the new-found bounty is likely to put many districts in the difficult position of choosing where to spend the money.
Education
Pioneer System For Special Ed. Watched in Vt.
Only one of the 22 students in Tracy Pornelos' 1st-grade class has been formally identified as needing special education. So far.
Education
Study Links Advertising To Adolescent Smoking
Advertising by tobacco companies has a greater effect than peer pressure or family influence on whether some adolescents take up smoking, according to a study of California youths.
Education
Taking The Offensive: State Democrats Using Education as Weapon
Hampton, Va.
A few miles from Yorktown, where American soldiers trounced the British to win the Revolutionary War, Virginia's most powerful Democratic state senator is fighting his toughest election battle ever.
A few miles from Yorktown, where American soldiers trounced the British to win the Revolutionary War, Virginia's most powerful Democratic state senator is fighting his toughest election battle ever.
Education
Inquiring Minds
The elementary school teachers sitting in a conference room, pens and notepads in hand, look as if they could be students waiting for the morning's first lesson.
Education
Specter Raises Profile of Goals 2000 in N.H. Primary
Washington
For months, several GOP presidential contenders have made a point of denouncing the Clinton administration's flagship education initiative in an effort to shore up their conservative credentials for New Hampshire voters.
For months, several GOP presidential contenders have made a point of denouncing the Clinton administration's flagship education initiative in an effort to shore up their conservative credentials for New Hampshire voters.
Education
Ohio Private Schools Challenge Required Test
For six weeks this fall, students in Richard Hawley's ancient-civilization class had to set aside Plato and Homer to study a more pressing philosophy: that of the Ohio 9th-grade proficiency test.
Education
'The Basics' Is Once Again Rallying Cry in Littleton Election
In an election two years ago that drew national attention and split a community, three candidates were elected to the school board in Littleton, Colo., touting a back-to-basics platform.
Education
New Chancellor Moves Against 16 N.Y.C. Schools
Chancellor Rudy Crew has punctuated his first weeks on the job in New York City with swift action to prod 16 troubled schools to clean up their acts.
Education
Federal File
House Republicans caught a lot of heat from Democrats last winter over their plan, still pending, to dismantle the federal school-lunch program and wrap its funding into a child-nutrition block grant to the states.
Animated Argument
House Republicans caught a lot of heat from Democrats last winter over their plan, still pending, to dismantle the federal school-lunch program and wrap its funding into a child-nutrition block grant to the states.
Education
State Journal
A new Texas law intended to exempt home-school students from driver-education courses may allow all of the state's 16-year-olds to skip the class.
The Open Road
A new Texas law intended to exempt home-school students from driver-education courses may allow all of the state's 16-year-olds to skip the class.
Education
Books: New in Print
A Circle of Empowerment: Women, Education, and Leadership, by Rita L. Irwin (State University of New York Press, State University Plaza, Albany, N.Y. 12246; 206 pp., $17.95 paper). A portrayal of how women's leadership styles mesh with a school district's administration and supervisory system.
Administrators
A Circle of Empowerment: Women, Education, and Leadership, by Rita L. Irwin (State University of New York Press, State University Plaza, Albany, N.Y. 12246; 206 pp., $17.95 paper). A portrayal of how women's leadership styles mesh with a school district's administration and supervisory system.