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"We're trying to involve not just education-committee chairmen, but finance-committee chairmen, house speakers, the types of legislators who traditionally haven't come to education meetings," said Robert C. Andringa, executive director of the Denver-based interstate commission. "The [education] committees don't really have leverage on the funds. Those decisions are now made by the finance committees."

And as the court issued its ruling, three judges on the panel released accompanying comments that are being interpreted by educators in Florida as a victory for advocates of minimum-competency exams. The commentaries may also be an important signal for other states watching the progress of the case, which is the first important challenge nationwide to the use of student minimum-competency tests in public schools.

Juvenile justice. The Department of Justice announced, in the Sept. 17 Federal Register, a meeting of the Coordinating Council on Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention on Sept. 30, beginning at 10 a.m., in the Hubert Humphrey Auditorium, 200 Independence Ave., S.E., Washington. Program and budget changes affecting Federal delinquency-related programs will be discussed.

In Philadelphia, picketing teachers harassed administrators as special classes opened for high-school seniors and for the severely handicapped. The schools for seniors opened last Wednesday with 10,400 out of 11,700 seniors showing up, and most of the 400 administrators and other non-striking personnel were there--under protest--to teach them. The Philadelphia Association of School Administrators filed suit last week against the school district, objecting to Superintendent Michael P. Marcase's order that administrators teach at the schools.

Schools and colleges--public and private--will spend approximately $198.3 billion on education this academic year, up from approximately $181 billion last year, according to the agency's back-to-school forecast. The largest share, nearly $113 billion, will be spent by public elementary and secondary schools.

The two-hour walkout was prompted by "anxiety over not knowing every morning whether there would be school that day or not," according to Louis Ferrara, superintendent of the Plainview-Old Bethpage district.

A four-year study, conducted by Dr. Forest S. Tennant and colleagues at the University of California at Los Angeles, showed that "pre-participation" physicals were a cost-effective method of keeping students with medical problems out of sports. The researchers also found that 8 percent of those screened had treatable medical problems such as high blood pressure, musculo-skeletal injury, respiratory infection, and tooth decay.

Sherry Ekker, who has placed her daughter Leslie in a private tutorial arrangement paid for by the six parents, says the four-hour round trip is too strenuous and dangerous for young children.

A new study suggests, however, that these children are being unjustly maligned. They are indistinguishable from other children in terms of their "raisability, adaptability, and independence," according to the study.