March 13, 1996

Education Week, Vol. 15, Issue 25
Teaching Lisa Delpit Says Teachers Must Value Students' Cultural Strengths
Dalrymple Boulevard begins just yards from the Mississippi River, meanders northward, and becomes Park Boulevard. It once separated south Baton Rouge's white community from its poorer, black neighborhoods. In Jim Crow days, if you were black, you could not cross the boulevard after 6 p.m. And city police patrolled the area's graceful, tree-lined streets just to make sure you didn't try.
Debra Viadero, March 13, 1996
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25 min read
Education Most Md. 11th Graders Have Not Met Service Mandate, Report Says
Two-thirds of Maryland's 11th graders have not completed the state's requirement that they perform 75 hours of community service before they graduate next year, a state report shows.
Jessica Portner, March 13, 1996
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3 min read
Education Panel Calls for More Caution in Diagnosing, Treating ADD
An international drug-monitoring group has called for more caution in how attention-deficit disorder is diagnosed and treated.
Lynn Schnaiberg, March 13, 1996
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1 min read
Education Case Challenging Daily Prayers at Miss. School Goes to Trial
The case of Lisa Herdahl, the Wisconsin transplant who challenged a tradition of intercom prayers and other religious activity in a Mississippi school district, went to trial last week in federal court.
March 13, 1996
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4 min read
Budget & Finance Nebraska Lawmakers Near Accord on Finance Plan
Nebraska lawmakers stepped up their debate last week on major changes to both the amount state taxpayers spend on K-12 education and how that money is distributed among the state's 668 school districts.
Jeff Archer, March 13, 1996
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3 min read
Education State Journal: English only; Atlanta Jane
English is now the official language of Pennsylvania's department of education.
March 13, 1996
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1 min read
Assessment Report Examines Influences on Reading Skills
Washington
The home and school lives of U.S. 12th graders appear to have been less supportive of reading skills in 1994 than in 1992, a new federal report concludes.
Millicent Lawton, March 13, 1996
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3 min read
Education Utah To Vote on the Use Of School-Aid Funds
Utah voters will decide whether money now constitutionally required to go to K-12 schools can be used instead for higher education.
March 13, 1996
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1 min read
Education Status of Federal Legislation
This monthly update reports the status of key education-related bills as of March 6, 1996.
March 13, 1996
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6 min read
Education Legislative Update

NEW HAMPSHIRE


Governor: Stephen Merrill (R)
March 13, 1996
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2 min read
Families & the Community Flap Over N.Y.C. Site Derails Multiage School
Plans for a new multiage school in New York City that would allow young students to attend school in the same building as their teenage siblings or parents have been put on hold because district parents are protesting the intended site.
Cheryl Gamble, March 13, 1996
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2 min read
School Climate & Safety N.Y. Bills Give Teachers Power To Oust Pupils
An unlikely alliance in New York state is working to give teachers there something they have long lobbied for: the authority to suspend unruly students.
Drew Lindsay, March 13, 1996
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4 min read
School Climate & Safety Clinton Uses Conference To Put Focus on Fighting Drugs, Violence
President Clinton assembled more than 300 drug- and violence-prevention experts and high-ranking officials here last week in a election-year effort to reaffirm his commitment to combating illegal drug use and violence among the nation's young people.
Jessica Portner, March 13, 1996
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2 min read
Education Federal File: Labor unrest; Scorecard
There was division within the Clinton administration last month when Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., proposed an amendment to raise Department of Education spending.
March 13, 1996
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2 min read
Education Los Angeles To Keep Special-Ed. Schools Open
The Los Angeles school district has reassured parents that it will not close 18 schools that primarily serve children with disabilities.
March 13, 1996
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1 min read
Teaching Profession Galvanized by Strike, Parents Seek Union
A month after a five-day teachers strike that shook the San Diego Unified School District, union and management remain at odds, haggling over details of the agreement that ended the walkout.
Ann Bradley, March 13, 1996
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7 min read
Equity & Diversity Racial-Bias Lawsuit Threatens To Disrupt N.C. Board Elections
A racial-discrimination lawsuit filed in federal court by three Durham, N.C., residents threatens to disrupt school board elections scheduled for this spring in the 28,000-student district.
Jeff Archer, March 13, 1996
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3 min read
Education Capital Update

Legislative Action


D.C. Vouchers
March 13, 1996
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1 min read
School Climate & Safety New School Drives Wedge Through Border Town
For the past decade, the state line that separates west from east Wendover hasn't mattered very much.
Jeff Archer, March 13, 1996
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4 min read
Education High Court Rejects Suit On Explicit AIDS Talk
The U.S. Supreme Court last week rejected an appeal from Massachusetts parents who objected to an explicit high school assembly about AIDS that their children were required to attend.
March 13, 1996
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2 min read
School & District Management Hornbeck's Reform Plan Under Siege in Phila.
Philadelphia schools Superintendent David W. Hornbeck is fighting an uphill battle for a comprehensive education-reform plan that lately has run into new obstacles almost weekly.
Mark Walsh, March 13, 1996
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4 min read
Science 70 Years After Scopes, Evolution Hot Topic Again
More than 70 years after the famous "monkey trial" focused worldwide attention on Tennessee, the state is once again embroiled in a debate over whether students should be taught that humans evolved from apes.
Robert C. Johnston, March 13, 1996
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4 min read
Teaching Barbara Sizemore Stresses Test Preparation to Help Poor Black Children
The answer to Barbara A. Sizemore's prayers is a tall, white Chicagoan with a Midwestern twang and a balding pate. He is Paul Vallas, the brash new chief executive officer of the Chicago public schools.
Ann Bradley, March 13, 1996
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23 min read
Teacher Preparation Mich. Teachers Assail Universities That Grant Charters
A handful of Michigan public school teachers have expressed their opposition to charter schools by refusing to accept student-teachers from universities that grant charters.
Jeanne Ponessa, March 13, 1996
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3 min read
Science After Drug Raids, 14 Schools in N.H. Reap Harvest of Hydroponic Equipment
Convicted drug dealers in New Hampshire are unwittingly helping some of the state's high school students learn about agriculture.
Cheryl Gamble, March 13, 1996
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1 min read
Standards Summit Puts Faith in Two School-Reform Tactics
When the nation's governors and top business leaders convene in Palisades, N.Y., later this month for an education summit, they plan to champion academic standards as the key to improving student achievement.
Karen Diegmueller, March 13, 1996
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7 min read
College & Workforce Readiness Federal Backlog May Delay College-Aid Decisions
High school seniors hoping to make college decisions based on financial-aid offers may be hampered by a large backlog of unprocessed aid applications at the Department of Education.
Jeanne Ponessa, March 13, 1996
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3 min read
Federal In Ending GOP Bid, Alexander Remains Mum on Future Plans
Former Secretary of Education Lamar Alexander last week ended his bid for the 1996 Republican presidential nomination and endorsed Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole of Kansas.
Mark Pitsch, March 13, 1996
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1 min read
School & District Management Crew Unveils Plan To Streamline the Central Office
Schools Chancellor Rudy F. Crew unveiled a plan last week to reorganize the central administration of the New York City school system. He called for a streamlined headquarters that advances, rather than impedes, innovation.
Meg Sommerfeld, March 13, 1996
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1 min read
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