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Education Chronic Truants Are Target of Vermont Law
Children in Vermont who are habitually absent from school can be removed from their parents' custody and placed in foster-care programs under a juvenile-justice code revision recently approved by the state's legislature.
Tom Mirga, September 14, 1981
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Education Teachers in Philadelphia, Boston Vote to Walk Out
After weeks of threats and counterthreats, teachers in Philadelphia and Boston voted to strike last week. The powerful 22,000-member Philadelphia Federation of Teachers (PFT) walked out last Tuesday, while a divided Boston Teachers Union (BTU) voted the day before to strike on Sept. 21 if its demands are not met.
Arthur E. Levine, September 14, 1981
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Education Yale Program Aids New Haven School System
Elisabet O. Orville will spend six weeks this school year teaching her 10th-grade biology students how to write.
Thomas Toch, September 14, 1981
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Education People News
A Hopkinton, N.H., chemistry teacher pleaded innocent last week to federal charges that he planned to make cocaine in a school laboratory.

The teacher, Dana Billings, was released on a $10,000 personal-recognizance bond and will be tried Nov. 9.

September 14, 1981
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Education Five Minus One Equals More: Four-Day Week Catches On
Faced with rising costs and shrinking budgets, a small but growing number of rural school systems are turning to a four-day school week to save energy and preserve programs that might otherwise be cut.
Margaret L. Weeks, September 14, 1981
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Education States News Roundup
A temporary tax increase, proposed last week by Ohio Governor James Rhodes to raise $1 billion for education, would increase the state contribution to public schools by some 20 percent, but Ohio would still lag behind the national average in per-pupil expenditures.

Ohio now spends just over $2,000 per pupil--some $250 less than the national average. The new state revenue, if distributed evenly, would add less than $200 per pupil, said Roger Lulow, assistant superintendent of the State Department of Education.

September 14, 1981
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Education Draft Vocational-Education Proposal Stresses Economic Revitalization
The U.S. Department of Education is considering major changes in its vocational-education programs that would give increased authority to the states and would address the nation's need for "economic revitalization."
Susan G. Foster, September 14, 1981
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4 min read
Education Network Children's Educational Sought in Group's FCC Petition
In an action intended to "alert" the Federal Communications Commission to the lack of educational programming for children on commercial television, the Washington Association for Television and Children (WATCH), an independent watchdog group, has filed petitions with the commission to deny license renewals to the three network affiliates in the Washington area on the grounds that they have not fulfilled their obligations to children.
Alex Heard, September 14, 1981
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3 min read
Education National News Roundup
Parents of Epileptics Sue to Get Children Into Special Classes
September 14, 1981
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September 7, 1981
September 7, 1981
Education Cleveland School Officials Jailed
Two officials of the Cleveland public-school system were jailed briefly last week for holding up the paychecks of some 30 employees in the system's desegregation department.
September 7, 1981
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Education Chicago's Schools To Open on Time
The Chicago schools will open this week after all, on a $1.8-billion budget wrestled into balance with a variety of budget cuts, onetime revenues, and the power of the mayor's office. The district, which is forbidden by state law to open its schools without a balanced budget, passed the last major obstacle Wednesday, when the finance authority approved its spending plan for this school year.
September 7, 1981
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Education Ohio Governor May Raise Taxes For Education
Ohio Governor James Rhodes, a Republican who built his political reputation on keeping his state's taxes among the lowest in the country, says he will support a tax increase for 1982 if it is the only way to maintain the current quality of public schools and universities.
September 7, 1981
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Education Busing Debate Intensifies As Washington's Signals Change
In East Baton Rouge Parish, La., in the home state of an antibusing stalwart, U. S. Senator Bennett Johnston, approximately 13,000 students rode buses last Monday to the district's 67 newly desegregated elementary schools.
Peggy Caldwell, September 7, 1981
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Education A Little Magic in The Chem Lab
Bassam Z. Shakhashiri was demonstrating how to conduct a lab demonstration. His audience was a ballroom-full of high school chemistry teachers, who were attending the American Chemical Society's (A.C.S.) High School Chemistry Day.
Susan Walton, September 7, 1981
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Education Coleman: 'It's Gotten A Little Rough at Times'
More than any other scholar--and perhaps more, even, than any one public official--James S. Coleman has influenced the policies that have changed America's schools over the past two turbulent decades.
September 7, 1981
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4 min read
Education 1980 Graduates Rank Prosperity As Top Ambition
High school graduates of the class of 1980 were significantly more interested in making money and less concerned about working to correct social and economic injustices than their 1972 counterparts, according to a recently released survey by the National Center for Education Statistics (N.C.E.S.)
Tom Mirga, September 7, 1981
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2 min read
Education Cuts in Athletics Budgets Draw Fire from Communities
Under mounting pressure to make do with fewer dollars while simultaneously improving quality, most superintendents and school boards have been desperately searching for the least painful ways to reduce spending.
Tom Mirga, September 7, 1981
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2 min read
Education Mississippi Schools Using Disputed History Textbook
After being deemed "unacceptable" for the past six years by the Mississippi Textbook Purchasing Board, but "acceptable" by a federal court last year, a controversial textbook on the history of the state is finally finding its way into Mississippi's ninth grade classrooms.
September 7, 1981
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Education Up to 50,000 Teachers Face Layoff As School Opens
Not nearly as many teachers will be out of jobs this fall as some earlier estimates indicated, but declining enrollments and local budget constraints are taking a toll on the work force in some parts of the country.
Susan G. Foster, September 7, 1981
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7 min read

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