Word: honig
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...anticensorship lobby, People for the American Way, fears that the board's concessions could send the wrong message to nervous publishers or fire up Fundamentalists elsewhere. But California's superintendent of public instruction, Bill Honig, contends that advocacy of evolution remains firmly in place; irate California Fundamentalists agree...
...year -- has already had a salutary effect. "Students are taking it seriously and studying," says Robert Paskel, a state education monitor. One worry: that kids who do not pass will become discouraged and eventually drop out. "Holding students back, especially in the lower grades, doesn't help," says Bill Honig, state superintendent of public instruction in California...
...translate higher spending into concrete results is also crucial. The problem, of course, is that the fruits of education reform are often not seen for decades. "The toughest battle is to convince the public that dollars invested in education are golden, that the payoff is there," says Bill Honig, state superintendent of public instruction in California...
...question of advertising in schools has already raised legal challenges in several states, most notably New York and California. "If you're paying kids to watch commercials, that violates our state law," insists California Superintendent of Public Instruction Bill Honig, who has pledged to cut funds to schools that accept Channel One. Whittle is adamant that advertising is the only feasible way to foot the bill. Says he: "Schools have a choice: either do without, or do it this...
Some politicians and parents see choice as a panacea for the ills of public education, but most educators view it as only one of many necessary tools. "Choice is a nice initiative, but it's not the answer," says California's superintendent of public instruction, Bill Honig. "It's the day-to-day support for reform that is important to improving education." And improving education, as President Bush well knows, will cost money...