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Education State News Roundup
As of last Thursday, Republican Thomas H. Kean apparently had won a narrow victory over Democratic candidate James J. Florio in the New Jersey gubernatorial contest.

Mr. Kean's victory, if it is upheld by a recount, could have a substantial impact on education in the state.

November 9, 1981
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Education Legislative Report
as of 5 p.m. on Nov. 4

Senate House

November 9, 1981
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Education Evolution Supporters Develop Strategy to Counter Creationism
If scientists allow themselves to become embroiled in a "holier-than-thou" spat with creationists on academic credentials and continue to write off the Darwin versus Genesis equal-time controversy as a difference of opinion between rational and irrational forces, they are likely to end up losers.
E. Patrick McQuaid , November 9, 1981
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Education Evolution Supporters Develop Strategy to Counter Creationism
Scientists, educators, clergymen, and civil libertarians representing an array of national organizations have agreed to work together to develop information for people who are interested in countering creationism movements.
Alex Heard, November 9, 1981
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Education Management of Overseas Schools Sharply Criticized By Teachers
Teachers in American schools overseas are forced to educate too many students, to use meager and outdated materials, and to teach in dilapidated buildings, the president of one of the two major overseas teachers' unions has told Congressmen weighing alternatives for the large and sprawling international network of U.S. schools.
Alex Heard, November 9, 1981
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Education Oregon County Closes Schools Indefinitely
The defeat of a $2.9-million tax-increase proposal last Tuesday forced the superintendent of the Estacada School District in Clackamas County, Ore., to close the schools on Friday and announce that they would remain closed until further notice.

School Superintendent Terry Waters said that school employees received termination notices Wednesday afternoon following the 149-vote defeat of the proposal. The unofficial vote tally was 1,635 in favor of the tax increase and 1,784 against, according to the county clerk's office.

November 9, 1981
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Education The Legacy of the Rural Schools That 'Americanized' Western Immigrants

There were 200,000 one-room schools in the United States at the turn of the century. Today, there are a little over 1,000 in operation. Fire, intentional demolition, neglect, and natural deterioration have destroyed many of the buildings as well as the larger rural schools that used to exist.
November 9, 1981
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Education Handbook Counsels Officials On Block-Grants Strategies
The Education Consolidation and Improvement Act (ecia)--which creates education block grants and simplifies Title I--should be regarded as "landmark" legislation, says a manual on the new law published by the National School Boards Association.
Eileen White, November 9, 1981
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Education Minnesota May Delay School Aid to 300 'Wealthy' Systems
Minnesota school districts with sizable cash balances or other bookkeeping surpluses may be forced to help ease the state's financial crisis by deferring their December state aid.
Austin Wehrwein, November 9, 1981
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Education Philadelphia Strike Ruling May Force Early Schools Closing
Philadelphia's public schools, which just re-opened Oct. 29 following a 50-day teacher walkout, could be forced to close earlier than planned at the end of this school year for lack of money, according to Superintendent of Schools Michael P. Marcase.

A Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court ruling that ended the strike and ordered the school system to re-hire 3,000 teachers "exacerbates our already very severe financial problems," Mr. Marcase explained.

November 9, 1981
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Education 2 Incumbents Re-Elected, 2 Lose in D.C.
In spite of a well-publicized campaign against the current members of the Washington, D.C., school board, two incumbents defeated challengers in a race that drew a relatively high voter turnout.

Of the winning incumbents, Barbara Lett Simmons, an at-large candidate, received 16.9 percent of the vote in a field of 18 candidates. R. Calvin Lockridge, a former school-board president, received 39.1 percent of the vote to defeat six other candidates in his ward.

November 9, 1981
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Education 'New Majority' Elected to Cleveland Board
A "new majority," backed by the city's business leadership, has been elected to the seven-member Cleveland Board of Education.

All four of the seats up for election this year were won by candidates who had support from the Business Roundtable, a group concerned with the system's financial, managerial, and image problems.

November 9, 1981
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Education Federal News Roundup
The U.S. Supreme Court last week agreed to consider a New York case that many experts in special-education law consider crucial in defining an "appropriate education" for handicapped students.

The Hendrick Hudson Central School District contends that it is not obligated under federal law to provide a sign-language interpreter for Amy Rowley, a deaf fourth-grader who reportedly performs at the top of her regular class. School officials say they were complying with the Education for All Handicapped Children Act in providing a hearing aid, therapy, and tutoring for the child.

November 9, 1981
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Education Boston Voters Turn Out 2 Board Members Who Were Named in Bus-Contract Scandal

Boston voters last week ousted two school-committee members whose names were dragged through a long extortion trial recently--and, at the same time, the voters approved a dramatic change in the way future boards will be chosen.
November 9, 1981
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Education California Chief Claims Schools Back on Track
With the state's 12th-grade test scores up for the first time since 1969 in all subjects, Superintendent of Public Instruction Wilson Riles is claiming a turnaround in student achievement for California's high-school seniors.
George Neill, November 9, 1981
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Education Voters in Maine City Reject 'Creationism'
Supporters of "scientific creationism" in Caribou, Maine, got a second notice of rejection, this time at the polls, when voters defeated a referendum asking that creationism be taught in the city's schools.

Terrence St. Peter, Caribou city manager, said supporters of creationism petitioned to have the referendum placed on the ballot after the local school board refused to include creationism theory as a curriculum requirement6alongside the theory of evolution. He said, however, that the school board would not have been obligated to reverse its earlier decision if the local referendum had been approved by voters because it is authorized by state law to set the curriculum.

November 9, 1981
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Education State and Local Educators Advised To Control Block-Grant Decisions
The new education block grants are a "political football" that state departments of education and local school systems risk fumbling to state legislators and governors around the country unless they act quickly.
Jeffrey Mervis, November 9, 1981
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Education E.T.S. Unveils 'Code of Fair Testing' Plans
The Educational Testing Service (ets), the nation's largest developer of standardized achievement tests for students, last week announced several measures that it says will open its programs to more public scrutiny and ensure their fairness.
Thomas Toch, November 9, 1981
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Education Hearings
SENATE

Vocational education. Nov. 24. Joint hearing on vocational education and ceta programs. Contact: Subcommittee on Education, Arts, and Humanities (202) 224-2962 or Subcommittee on Employment and Productivity (202) 224-6306.

November 9, 1981
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Education Graduates Often Lack Basic Skills, Critics Claim
High-school graduates who enter the worlds of business, college, or the military are likely to find themselves right back in a classroom if their basic reading, writing, and math skills are so poor that they cannot carry out their assigned tasks.
Susan Walton, November 9, 1981
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