June 19, 1996

Education Week, Vol. 15, Issue 39
Teaching Profession Risk-Taking Key to Preserving Public Education, Geiger Says
When Keith B. Geiger looks out over the 9,000-odd delegates at next month's National Education Association convention here, he's likely to have a lump in his throat.
Ann Bradley, June 19, 1996
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Education Rating Municipal Bonds
The nation's two oldest bond-rating agencies, Moody's and Standard & Poor's, trace their beginnings to firms that analyzed the finances and public securities of railroad companies. They have long dominated the business of rating corporate and municipal bond issues, but they face increased competition from newer services. Here is a capsule look at the four companies that rate a wide variety of corporate and municipal bonds, including bonds issued by school districts:
June 19, 1996
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Education Funding Education Week To Publish Annual Report on Reform
The Pew Charitable Trusts has approved a three-year, $850,000 grant to the publishers of Education Week for an annual report on the condition of public education in the 50 states and the District of Columbia.
Millicent Lawton, June 19, 1996
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Families & the Community At the Top
The quality of public education ranked as the top priority in the 1996 presidential election for respondents in a recent USA Today/CNN/Gallup Poll. The poll of 1,000 adults was conducted by telephone Jan. 5-7. It has a margin of error of plus/minus 3 percentage points. The respondents were to do the following: "I'm going to read a list which includes some national issues and some problems facing Americans today. For each one, please tell me how important a candidate's position on that issue is to you personally in deciding which candidate you will support for president."
June 19, 1996
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College & Workforce Readiness Firms Moving To Use School Data in Hiring
Before they ever get a job interview, would-be mechanics at the Boeing Co. undergo four hours of extensive testing.
Jeff Archer, June 19, 1996
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Education Funding Report Fails To Head Off Trial on Pa. School-Finance System
Pennsylvania's 5-year-old school-finance lawsuit appears headed for trial this summer as state officials contend that poorer districts already get enough aid.
Drew Lindsay, June 19, 1996
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Education Recommending a President
The National Education Association has a four-stage process for choosing which candidate to back for president of the United States. Those steps, as published by the union, are:
June 19, 1996
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College & Workforce Readiness Minority College Enrollment Up 5 Percent in 1994
Minority-student enrollment at U.S. colleges increased nearly 5 percent in 1994, almost double the rate of the previous year. But, a new report says, there are still significant gaps between minority enrollments and those of white students.
Peter West, June 19, 1996
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Education News In Brief

Wash. Schools Chief Isn't Running for Congress

June 19, 1996
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School Climate & Safety Dallas Cancels Meeting in Face Of Gun Threats
The Dallas school board canceled its meeting last week after members of a protest group threatened to show up armed with guns.
Cheryl Gamble, June 19, 1996
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1 min read
Federal Polls Confirm Key Role of Education in Political Arena
When the Republican-controlled Congress announced a series of budget proposals early last year that included dropping many federal education programs and eliminating the Department of Education, Democrats still groggy from a midterm-election pounding craved a comeback strategy.
Mark Pitsch, June 19, 1996
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Education Legislative Roundup
The following are summaries of final action by state legislatures on state education budgets and other education-related matters.The following are summaries of final action by state legislatures on state education budgets and other education-related matters.
June 19, 1996
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Education State Journal: Suspended ambition; What Hertz?

Suspended Ambition


Will Ruben Perez go from lord of discipline to governor of Colorado?
June 19, 1996
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Teaching Profession Polls Prompt NEA To Shift Focus Away From Politics to Issues
With the help of public opinion polling, the National Education Association has revamped its political wing to focus more on issues and less on partisan politics.
Mark Pitsch, June 19, 1996
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Equity & Diversity Racial Quotas Are Ordered For Rockford
A federal judge has ordered strict new racial guidelines for the Rockford, Ill., schools in an unusually ambitious desegregation order that will reach into virtually every classroom in the 27,000-student district.
Caroline Hendrie, June 19, 1996
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Education Funding House Plan Would Freeze School Aid in Fiscal '97
Federal school aid would be frozen at current levels, while Goals 2000 and 20 other smaller education programs would be eliminated, under a preliminary spending bill approved by a House subcommittee last week.
Robert C. Johnston, June 19, 1996
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Equity & Diversity Pressure Builds To Nix School Ban for Illegal Immigrants
Republican leaders came under increased pressure last week to abandon a proposal to allow states to deny illegal immigrants a public education--some of it from their own party members.
Lynn Schnaiberg, June 19, 1996
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Standards & Accountability Business Group Publishes Guide to Standards Reform
Many prominent members of the business community have been at the forefront of the movement calling for students to meet rigorous academic standards.
Karen Diegmueller, June 19, 1996
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Standards & Accountability Pa. Panel Revisits OBE Issue in Approving Standards Bill
In Pennsylvania, where public outcry helped lead to a widespread repudiation of the "outcomes-based education" label nationwide, lawmakers again have delved into the troublesome issue.
Karen Diegmueller, June 19, 1996
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College & Workforce Readiness 'Career Academies' May Benefit Students, Teachers, Analysis Finds
The nation's more than 300 high school "career academies"--separate schools-within-schools that combine academic and vocational preparation--seem to offer students attractive alternatives to traditional programs and teachers a challenging professional home, a report released last week concludes.
Peter West, June 19, 1996
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School Choice & Charters Opinion Leadership Lessons Learned--The Hard Way
It seems that every week we read about some educational leader under fire, whether a superintendent, headmaster, principal, or higher education president. Usually the fire turns into "fired." I know how they feel. Two years ago, people in 76 countries put me under fire. I happened to survive.
Regan Kenyon, June 19, 1996
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Equity & Diversity Opinion The Place of Race In America
These days, the subject of race in America is in a cycle of wide and deep unpopularity at both the grassroots and political levels. Privately and publicly, the subject is avoided, abused, shunned, and abandoned. Its contemporary relevance is denied. The nation's leading effort to produce racial equality--school desegregation--is described as a waning policy: nice try and good riddance.
Leonard B. Stevens, June 19, 1996
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Education Letter to the Editor Letters To The Editor

'Wars' on Social Problems Ignore Cause and Effect

June 19, 1996
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Curriculum Opinion Summer Reading on Social Issues
In the view of psychologist and best-selling author Mary Pipher, the nation is in the throes of a cultural upheaval, pounded by waves of new technology and buffeted by winds of change. And although the electronic community that is the offspring of this revolution allows unprecedented access to global information, it has also precipitated a devastating moral crisis. The strain of this crisis, Ms. Pipher argues in The Shelter of Each Other, rests squarely on the family. The old-fashioned, tightly knit family has fallen victim to a society that prefers MTV watching and Internet surfing to spending time with neighbors or investing in the community.
David Field, June 19, 1996
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