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Teachers For Indian Schools: The Peace Corps and the U.S. Bureau of
Indian Affairs have signed a five-year agreement under which returning
Corps volunteers can teach in BIA schools. The arrangement was made
under the Peace Corps' new Fellows/ USA program, which allows former
volunteers to teach in understaffed public schools across the country
while they study for master's degrees.
Schools At Risk: Forty-five high schools throughout the Northeast have
been warned by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges that
their accreditation is at risk because of cuts in programs and
deteriorating school conditions. The number is much higher than in past
years. Many schools have had to cut budgets because of the flagging
economy.
Saving Jobs: To prevent massive layoffs throughout the district, New
York City's public school teachers and paraprofessionals have agreed to
a 1 percent to 1.5 percent wage deferral. Under the agreement, which
will save the beleaguered system about $40 million dollars this year,
the school employeeswill be reimbursed for the cuts in 1995 and
1996.
A Good Cause: The DeWitt Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund has awarded $1
million to Recruiting New Teachers, the sponsor of a public service
campaign encouraging people to enter teaching.
A Call For Prayer: President Bush, speaking in late January at the
annual convention of the National Religious Broadcasters, reasserted
his support for voluntary public school prayer. The president said that
he continues to support the "belief that students who go to school to
nourish their minds should also be allowed to nourish their
souls.''
Doing Time: Leaders of the teachers' union in New Jersey's South
Orange-Maplewood school district have completed 84 hours of community
service for defying a back-to-work order last fall during a strike over
salary and working conditions. A judge ordered nine teachers to tutor
recovering addicts at a drug- rehabilitation center and four members of
the union's support staff to help out at a Veterans Administration
hospital.
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