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...Francisco last month, Bill Honig, California's superintendent of public instruction, voiced the wide spread frustration with the textbook dilemma when he asked a convocation of 43 educators and 50 representatives from 16 publishing houses, "Who is in charge?" The answer is everybody and nobody. Certainly not Honig, though his voice has been one of the loudest and most persistent calling for textbook reform. In his own state, below fifth grade a zoo story may not include such words as beaver, parrot, goat - and zoo. A California anti-junk-food lobby's taboo still limits references...
...Tallahassee of publishers, legislators and educators from 22 states to talk about model schoolbook-selection procedures. Although the group could not agree on specifics, there was one strong message to the publishing industry: if standards are raised, the states will buy the books. California Superintendent of Public Instruction Bill Honig, an aggressive reformer, wants to form a textbook buyers' cooperative. Representatives of Florida and California, which together buy 13% of the nation's textbooks (in contrast with Texas' 6%), will hold a meeting later this month for interested educators. Says Honig: "If Texas can influence books that...
Soon after his election, Honig asked Sacramento legislators to toughen high school graduation requirements, raise beginning salaries for teachers to $18,000, make loans for teacher training, and fund master teacher programs. Cost: $800 million. Governor George Deukmejian, who had won office on a promise of fiscal austerity, balked. But a public opinion poll indicated that Californians by a 2-to-l majority would support increased taxes to improve public schools...
...Honig immediately started a campaign that rivaled his bid for office. In one day in July, he held press conferences in three different cities. Then he talked to the California Round Table, a group of 88 chief executive officers already concerned about educational reform. The Governor began to get letters. "Dear George," wrote J.R. Fluor, head of a multibillion-dollar engineering and construction firm, "I am urging you to reconsider the position you took during your campaign-a position which we all admired at the time-and relent just a bit so that sufficient revenues can be raised to ensure...
...crescendo of public concern, Ruth Love superintendent of Chicago's rallying system, says, "Whenever we get in trouble as a nation, we always turn to education, and those of us in education must seize this op- portunity"it won't be here always." California's Honig agrees that educators must make the most of this golden moment. But he notes, "There is no one secret answer to turn our schools around. It takes the commitment of thousands and thousands of people, people who are committed to kids and education and good human values." Those people appear...