University Daily Kansan, October 12, 1983
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Governors close conference with armful of proposals Job training is concern to governors
By the Kansan Staff
Governors attending the Midwestern Governors' Conference said yesterday that the country needed to concentrate on retraining displaced members of the work force.
Malcom Lovell
He said that states should be allowed to use money set aside for unemployment compensation.
Malcolm Lovell, visiting scholar to the Brookings Institute, told the governors that they needed to get more people educated in jobs that they were interested in. He said the governors need to be the private sector to participate in retraining people who had lost jobs because of technology.
LOVELY ALSO said that the states should use existing educational facilities for retraining and that the states should make the programs more accessible to encourage displaced workers to participate.
Four governors reported on the efforts that were being made in their states to deal with retraining and the unemployed.
All four included in their comments mention of the new Jobs Training Partnership Act, which she said would be good for workers.
While the governors offered a general support of JTPA, saying it was an improvement from the Comprehensive Employment Training Act, some had reservations.
Gov. Bob Kerrey, D-Nebraska, said the states still needed greater control over the program.
He also said that the current plan penalizes small communities with high levels of unemployment and has special attention because of the limited range of employment and job-training services.
Blanchard also told the governors about his summer Youth Corps program.
Gov. Terry Branstad, R-lowa, said his state was making an effort to offer retraining through community colleges.
Michigan Gov. James Blanchard, a democrat, said Michigan had established a special office to oversee the investigation.
GOV. KIT BOND, R-Missouri, said his state was putting an emphasis on "customized job training." He also said that the program was designed to be responsive to the job needs of the
Reminiscent of the old Youth Conservation Corps of the 1930s, the $4 million Youth Corps program employed 25,000 Michigan youth, ages in minimum wage jobs for eight to 12 weeks.
"Apparently we were measuring the water on a rainy day," said Carlin.
Carlin, a Democrat, admitted that the facts were wrong in the Kansas film and said the voice track on the film would be correct before the movie. It. Carlin's wife, Karen, helped make the movie.
Minnesota governor will ask Kansas to make Land of 10,000 Lakes' film
Minnesota's governor said yesterday that he would ask Kansas to make a free promotional movie about Minnesota to compensate for a claim in a Kansas film that the Sunflower State has more recreational water than "the Land of 10,000 Lakes."
Stephen Phillips/KANSAN
PERICH, ALSO a Democrat, said Kansas had 348,000 acres of recreational water and 625,000 acres of private land.
"That film was so good I'm going to ask Gov. Carlin to make one, without charge, about Minnesota," Gov. Rudy Periph said.
He said he would send Carlin a letter when the the Midwestern Governors' Conference ended requesting that the movie be made for free.
By Staff and Wire Reports
Carlin said, "We'll be happy to offer any expertise, any assistance, we can to Minnesota. But as far as making it free, that might be going too far."
He also said he was glad the film had brought so much media attention to Perchip.
Carlin's press secretary, Mike Swenson, said the claim in the Kansas film, titled "This Is Us," about a young man who was beaten.
"I hope the extra attention has made his trip here more worthwhile," he said.
He said the figures used to compare the two states "were like comparing apples with oranges."
Swenson said the showing Monday at the opening of the governors' conference was the film's debat, although it had been shown to the governor. Kansas media and all of the film's sponsors.
In the closing business session at the conference, South Dakota Gov. William Janklow offered to mediate the dispute between Carlin and Perpich over recreational water acreage. Janklow and Perpich have crossed wits in the past over other issues.
PERICH SAID HE was asking Kansas to make a movie for Minnesota "because we don't know how many times that movie has been shown or how many people have seen it."
Missouri Gov. Kit Bond, chairman of the conference, said, "That's about the most generous offer I've heard since Jesse James could mediate a dispute between two banks."
done to U.S. exports by the "artificially" high value of the dollar against foreign currencies.
- They pledged to support increased financing for agricultural construction, extension and re-mentorship.
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Also in the closing business session, Gov. Rudy Pericp, D-Minnesota, was named chairman of the Midwestern Governors' Association for the Orr. Orr, R-Indiana, was named vice chairman.
Gov. Robert Kerrey of Nebraska will be the host of next year's conference in Lincoln, Neb. Perpich and Kerrey agreed that the date of the conference, which has not been decided, could not coincide with the Nebraska-Minnesota football game.
Before the accident, Carlin was to have begun a three-week tour of the Far East shortly after the conference ended. He said that he was still in touch with people who did that he did not know when it would be finished.
Carlin, he is recovering from a back injury he suffered in an auto accident two weeks ago, said after the final meeting that he felt good but that travel was very tiring.
THE FOUR IMPORTANT issues of the next year for the Midwestern Governors' Association, Perpich said, would be energy, agriculture and marketing, water resources and education.
Gov. Rudy Perchip of Minnesota was elected chairman of next year's Midwestern Governors' Conference.
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schools of education. Carlin said he wanted standards raised in schools of education.
"We need to secure high quality teachers," Carlin said. "I want to know how good the young men and women going into teaching in Kansas want to go before the Legislature with facts."
CARLIN SAID HE planned to go to the state Legislature in January with a proposal for raising standards for Kansas teachers. His package will also include a proposal for increased teacher salaries.
As part of his education research, Carlin created a permanent education cabinet in May. He has also been touring the state and conducting town meetings to get statewide support for his proposals.
Carlin said that he had always been committed to having the state pay 50 percent of the cost of education, and that he was committed to reaching that goal by the end of his term.
Carlin also supported a merit-pay plan for teachers, but said the state must first have an appropriate salary base.
Gov. Robert Orr, R-I Indiana, said that a feeling existed in the country that the education system was not performing properly and that
governors should move to the forefront in efforts to improve education.
IN HIS SPEECH to the governors, Hodgkinson emphasized the point that education in the United States was not as bad as people thought.
"The real problem is that our expectation is so high," he said. "People think that education is the key to an improved future."
Hodkinson also said that education was more diversified now than it was 20 years ago.
Along with Carlin, the other governors who summarized education efforts in their states emphasized the needs to plan and to keep pace with technology.
Gov. Rudy Perpich, D-Minnesota, said that his state was initiating a program to bring high-tech training into the classrooms.
HE SAID THE plan included providing financing, evaluation of new programs at test sites and development of software course work. Gov Anthony Earl, D-Wisconsin, said his state was upgrading the vocational education in the high schools to meet the needs of students who weren't planning to attend college. He said they had also created a "quick-start" program so that the educational system could respond quickly to educational needs in the state.
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