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Compromises such as that of only seeking on-campus advertisers would not only marginalize public-school newspapers, as Daily Editor-in-Chief Keesia D. Wirt has said, but they may also financially cripple these newspapers, allowing rivals like the Tribune to monopolize the market...
...local governments slashing public-school budgets, parents often face an unhappy choice: supplement their children's creaky classrooms with their own cash or stick the kids in pricier, more exclusive private schools. While parents have long held bake sales and sold raffle tickets to drum up extra funds for local schools, fund raising today is growing more elaborate and controversial. In Bowie, Md., a nonprofit foundation set up by parents is helping finance a $5 million auditorium. In Winchester, Mass., the Foundation for Educational Excellence dispenses $50,000 a year in grants to enterprising teachers. And public-school boards...
...President's proposal to develop voluntary fourth-grade reading and eighth-grade math tests by 1999 has enjoyed public support since its unveiling last February. Education experts agree that American public schools badly need tougher--and higher--national standards. National testing would enable parents and schools from Cambridge, Mass., to Compton, Calif., to measure an individual student's performance against a common yardstick. A well-executed national testing system might also ease the transition to charter schooling and public-school choice by providing a standard method of assessing different schools' strengths. In a TIME/CNN poll last week, a majority...
Clinton's education policy remains an unfinished symphony. Most school reformers agree that some kind of performance standards for students are necessary as well as greater competition among public and private schools. Until now, Clinton has offered a lot of ideas but few that go far enough to alienate his staunch supporters in the public-school teachers' unions. He has proposed a $10,000 tax deduction for higher education, a $1,500 tax credit for two years of college or vocational school, tax-free iras that can be used to finance college tuition, a plan to mobilize a million reading...
BORN: Dec. 5, 1927, Loganville EDUCATION: U of Maryland, B.S., 1953; Western Maryland College, M.Ed., 1956 FAMILY: Wife, Hilda; two children RELIGION: Methodist MILITARY: Army, 1946-48 OCCUPATION: Public-school superintendent POLITICAL CAREER: Dallastown school-board president, 1964-67; U.S. House, 1974- ADDRESS: P.O. Box 96, Jacobus...