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...Louis music lovers, worries over NEA funding cuts may be premature; orchestra officials have no inkling of how much funding they will lose and, indeed, NEA may decide to channel its remaining dollars to a few well-established institutions like the St. Louis Symphony rather than spread the money around the nation. Nevertheless, orchestra officials are already mulling over initial money-saving measures, such as ending some outdoor concerts this summer and joint ventures with the Opera Theater of St. Louis. "We'll be hurt, but we'll survive," says Susan Switzer, the symphony's public relations...
Many observers say that Carter sought the department's creation solely as a political payoff to the powerful NEA. The association issued its first-ever endorsement of a political candidate in exchange for Carter's agreement to find the orphan-child education a home...
...Carter enthusiastically penned the legislation into law--and picked up the NEA endorsement for 1980--some observers wondered what field Carter, who promised to trim down the bureaucracy when he came to Washington in 1976, would look to next...
...votes and in the opinion of many, as one Congressman bluntly put it, Carter's support for it represented "a political payoff in every sense of the word." Then candidate Carter had picked up the first-ever endorsement of a presidential candidate from the National Education Association (NEA), the nation's most influential lobby for primary education, in return for his promise to build the department. Those who represented post-secondary education interests feared that, given the NEA's vital role in establishing the department and a Secretary who came from the primary sector, higher education's pleas might...
Last November, ETS officials and others heard speaker after speaker criticize standardized testing at the National Conference on Testing in Washington. Groups such as the Parent Teacher Association (PTA), the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and the National Education Association (NEA) all have complained of serious and potentially dangerous shortcomings of tests. Since then the siege on testing marked by the conference has become a prominent nationwide issue...