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...growing teacher shortage. According to the American Federation of Teachers, U.S. schools will have to hire 1.8 million new teachers by 1997. The need is especially acute in inner cities and rural communities, precisely the areas TFA serves. "Without programs like ! this," says New York City Schools Chancellor Joseph Fernandez, "we are never going to resolve pipeline issues related to attracting the very best and brightest to our profession...
...Titan safety Julio Fernandez said after the game, "These guys have heart." Playing football for free may sound romantic, but players who supply their own jockstraps and hold down day jobs must have an unyielding determination to crack the bigs, an undying love for the game, or a screw loose. Or all three...
Having pushed that approach in Miami, where he was Dade County school superintendent for almost three years, Fernandez is trying to apply it to the nation's largest school system. Whether or not it works in New York, school- based management is gathering momentum across the U.S. School districts in 27 states have experimented with it, with varying degrees of success, over the past five years. Since 1987 the schools in Rochester have been run by a team of teachers, parents and administrators. Beginning last fall, locally elected councils -- composed of six parents, two community residents, two teachers...
DADE COUNTY, FLA. During the past three years, 139 of Dade County's 263 schools have voted to join the school-based-management movement spearheaded by former superintendent Fernandez. William Jennings Bryan Elementary School, which embraced the concept in 1987, is an example of a school in mid- metamorphosis, experimenting with change on the one hand while retaining some aspects of more traditional schools on the other...
...Katherine Mihok, Adrianne Jucius Navon, Nancy Newman, Susan M. Reed, Elizabeth Rudulph, Zona Sparks, William Tynan, Sidney Urquhart, Susanne Washburn (Senior Staff); Elizabeth L. Bland, Kathleen Brady, Barbara Burke, Wendy Cole, Tom Curry, Nelida Gonzalez Cutler, Sally B. Donnelly, Andrea Dorfman, David Ellis, Kathryn Jackson Fallon, Mary McC. Fernandez, Cassie T. Furgurson, David M. Gross, Janice M. Horowitz, Jeanette Isaac, Sinting Lai, Daniel S. Levy, Lawrence Mondi, Michael Quinn, Jeffery C. Rubin, Megan Rutherford, Andrea Sachs, Patricia Santella, Sophfronia Scott, David Seideman, Sribala Subramanian, David E. Thigpen, Leslie Whitaker, Linda Williams, Linda Young...