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Mary Jean LeTendre, director of U.S. Education Department's Office of Compensatory Education, wants to concentrate Chapter 1 dollars on the neediest students in the neediest schools. John F. Jennings, general counsel for...
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The 1983 "education at risk" booklet pushed by Reagan-Bush regime left nothing but the timidly obedient Terrell Bell, the feisty, right-wing true believer Bill Bennett, the pitiful Lauro Cavazos, the self-centered Lamar ...
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Presents presidential candidates' views concerning the federal role in education. Issues discussed include childhood poverty, educational inequities, Head Start funding, educational vouchers for private and parochial sch...
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Given the state of Chapter 1 funding, regular and special education advocates must fight for higher federal and state special education funding, resist legislators' efforts to divide their common child advocacy interests...
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Congressional education committees will soon reconsider education laws about to expire. The most controversial task is reauthorizing the preschool grants program under the Education of the Handicapped Act. These committe...
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Criticizes President George Bush's minimalist education budget as a lot of noise with little substance. Instead of adopting the President's education program and budget, Congress invested heavily in increases for Chapter...
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Representative Augustus Hawkins, outgoing chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Education and Labor, stunned state governments and the education community in January by introducing a bill requiring each state to certif...
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Recent efforts of parents, education experts, and Congress to expand the definition of handicapped children (under the Education for All Handicapped Children Act) to include attention deficit disorder victims failed when...
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The American Association of School Administrators has recently tapped all segments of the education community to gather and craft a viable, forward-looking vocational education recommendation to Congress. At present, voc...
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Although Congress now recognizes education as central to America's economic standing, education should also be supported to sustain democracy. Scholar R. Freeman Butts argues that civic learning is education's "prime pur...