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University Daily Kansan, October 12, 1983
National educational policies discussed
NEA head blasts Reagan education policy
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — The head of America's largest teachers' union yesterday accused President Reagan of hurting educational reform by wanting to make future classrooms "look like from an old Mickey Rooney movie."
Mary Futrell, president of the National Education Association,
scorned Reagan for responding to the call for better schools by pushing classroom prayer, budget cuts, tuition tax credits for private schools and merit pay for "a future / someone willing to do more than posture and pray for better schools," she told a National Press Club luncheon.
Futrell called on Reagan to implement the 6-month-old recommendations of his National Commission on Excellence in Education, which last
spring issued a stinging indictment of public education.
AMONG THE RECOMMENDATIONS were a longer school year, increased pay for teachers and a greater emphasis on math, science, English and foreign language.
The NEA estimated the commission's entire list of proposals would cost about $14 million. Reagan has embraced the movement to upgrade
schools, but has offered no specific program.
Earlier this month, the 1.7 millionmember NEA supported former Vice President Walter Mondale's presidential bid.
Futrell said, "America's teachers are educationally handcuffed by a president who wants the classrooms of tomorrow to look like the set from an old Mickey Rooney movie."
Task force backs teacher raises, merit pay
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — State and local governments should give teachers an across-the-board pay hike and experiment with awarding merit pay in the best and the brightest" instructors, a congressional task force said yesterday.
But the head of the National Education Association and a member of the task force, complained that the group's final report dropped a proposal that the federal government help finance the teacher raises.
"I wish the task force was brave enough to go before Congress and say that this is what is needed," Mary Futrell, president of the 1.7 million member NEA, said at a National Press Club luncheon.
SPEAKING A FEW hours after release of the report by the Task Force on Merit Pay, she said that a proposal
last month included a call for about $5 billion in federal funds to help pay for salary increases and other reforms.
"I was told that the funds were taken out because there was a feeling it would not be approved by Congress," Furturell said. "We have a statement, not a program."
David Carle, a staff member of the task force headed by Paul. Simon, D-III, said that the proposal for "a few billion dollars" in federal assistance was dropped without dissent at a Sept. 13 meeting of the task force.
Carle said that Simon offered the proposal to help local school districts finance merit pay. He said that Simon was aware of the measure because of a lack of support.
The panel was created last June during debates over whether teachers should receive merit pay and how much investment should contribute to schools.
FUTRELL said that she still had
migisvings about merit pen, and that she feared such a system would be laced with favoritism. The Reagan administration, which had sought to reduce financing of education, has merited merit as a key to better schools.
Albert Shanker, president of the American Federation of Teachers, and also a member of the panel, said that his union had "no final judgments — only views and concerns," on merit pay and other educational issues.
"The bottom line of the task force report, however, is the recommendation for higher base pay for all teachers to adequate funds for our schools." Https://www.
Simon, when he released the study, said that merit pay alone could not return excellence to the classroom but America's teachers, the quality of America's teachers.
More important, he said, would be raising the pay of all teachers, now
among the nation's lowest-paid professionals with an average salary of about $19,000.
IN ADDITION TO HIGHER wagies for better teams, the task force called for better teams.
To reach these goals, it offered three federal initiatives: teacher scholarships for top students, one-year fellowships for top teachers and a program to provide advanced instruction to up to 200,000 teachers each year.
In releasing the report that concluded a four-month study, Simon said polls showed that the public was willing to upgrade America's troubled schools.
The group cited a need for better training and improved working conditions for teachers as other key factors in improving public education.
He said that the recommended federal program would cost less than $250.
By BRUCE HONOMICHL Staff Reporter
Finding an open classroom at night now takes more searching because KU security officers have been ordered to become tougher about keeping unauthorized people out of classrooms and unused campus buildings, LJ. Jeanne Long, the KU Police Department said.
THE MORE STRICT enforcement is a result of rising utility costs and increased vandalism, officials from the KU Police Department said.
Many KU students once easily escaped the nightly noise of their residence halls or apartment buildings by taking their homework to school.
In past years, most campus classrooms were empty at night and building hours were not enforced as stringently as they are now by city offices operations and KU Police Department officials said recently.
Tom Anderson, director of facilities operations, said, "What happened was that there were people who were going through the buildings and leaving food and trash and leaving lights on.
"It wasn't necessarily all vandalism, but it was still enough to make professors and building administrators mad.
'What we had to do was get a handle on who was in the buildings at what times. It wasn't with the
idea of keeping students out, but, somehow, it's had that effect. Just call it a joint cleaning and security problem.
Stringent security measures lock some night study spots
Richard Perkins, associate director of facilities operations, said the electric bill for the Lawrence City office was $50,000 for September of this year.
"Utility costs are one reason that this has happened," she said. "It takes a lot of cash to pay the light in a classroom, but it is in a big classroom just for himself."
At the beginning of this year, Longaker said, University employees in Lippincott Hall decided to begin closing their building at 5 p.m. to avoid such threats. Parts of Summerfield and Stauffer-Flint halls have also been ordered closed after 5 p.m.
"Just have security go around a little tighter cuts down on a lot of pilfering that had been going on. When the buildings aren't used, that makes them more accessible to sit in a building and either make mess or scribble on the walls."
LONGAKER SAID SECURITY officers were simply told to check more closely the nooks and crannies of the people staying after building hours.
However, he said, that was more than $100,000 higher than the bill for September 1982
ON CAMPUS
DIEGO HAY, A GRADUATE STUDENT in Latin American studies, will give a slide presentation about Paraguay after a rice and beans dinner at 6 p.m. at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries Center, 1204 Oread Ave.
THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE College Organization will meet at 6:30 p.m. in Danforth Chapel for readings and discussion.
TODAY
Neither Longaker, Anderson nor Perkins could say how much money the University of Kansas had lost in the suit of a four-hour vandalism, however.
THE PUBLIC RELATIONS Student society meets at 6:30 p.m. the Piper Room, 219 West 54th Street.
DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS will
will be in the Trail Room of
the Kansas Union.
THE UNIVERSITY FORUM at the ECMC at 11:45 a.m. will feature a
THE CONTEMPLATIVE prayer session at the ECMC will begin at 7:45 a.m. and consist of silent prayer and reading from Merton's, "Things in Their Identity."
presentation by Robert Benne titled "Technology as Creative Destruction."
THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE College Organization will meet at 6:30 p.m. in Danforth Chapel for readings and discussions.
YOUNG AMERICAN'S FOR FREE
Room at 7 p.m. in the Council
Room of the Library
THE ORTHODOX CHRISTIANS on Campus will meet at 7 p.m. in the Regionalist Room of the Union, Alban Cooks will give a speech titled "The Orthodox Church Compared to the Episcopalian Church."
THE GEOGRAPHY DEPARTMENT Colloquium Series will present Rita Napier, professor of history, at a colloquium titled "Writing a New History of Plains Indians" at 4 p.m. in Room 317 Lindley Hall.
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WOMEN AT WORK .
is a lunchroom career series featuring speakers from a variety of fields. They will discuss their careers and offer tips to others who are interested in pursuing similar careers. Pick up a lunch in the cafeteria or bring your own and come join us!
OCTOBER 12:
Women in Personnel/Banking
Mary Hoffman
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OCTOBER 28:
Women in Education
Edwyna Gilbert, PhD.
Assoc. Professor
Susan Drewell
NOVEMBER 9:
Noblemer in Journalship
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Friday, October 28
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Dan Akroyd, Alan Arkin, Jim Belushi, John Belushi Shelley Berman, Peter Boyle, John Candy, Catherine O'Hara, Darden Darden, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Joe Flaherty, Mary Gross, Barbara Harris, Valerie Harper, Tim Kazurinsky, Robert Klein, Linda Lavin, Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin, Elaine May, Ann Mearla, Rick Moranis, Mike Nichols, Glinda Radner, Joan Rivers, David Steinberg, Jerry Stiller, Dave Thomas, Fred Willard
Kansas Union Ballroom
$4.00 Students with K.U. I.D.
$5.00 General Public
8:00 p.m.
Tickets available at SUA Office
BIG LEAGUE LANGUAGE CAREER
If you're a graduating foreign language major who's looking for an opportunity to apply your proficiency in a major league, highly professional work environment, you owe it to yourself to consider the National Security Agency (NSA). As an NSA linguist, you will work on a wide range of assignments involving translation, transcription, and analysis, reporting that contribute to the production of vital foreign intelligence information.
You can count on receiving advanced training in your primary language(s) along with many years of continued professional growth. There are opportunities to travel and to enjoy the numerous cultural, recreational and educational advantages of being home-based in one of the most secting growth regions of the 1980's, the Baltimore Washington metropolitan
If you are proficient in a Slavic, Near Eastern or Asian language, the National Security Agency offers you a free translation service.
Salaries at NSA start at the GS-7 level for those who have earned a BBA degree. Moreover, you will have all the additional benefits of federal employment. United States citizenship is required for all NSA career positions.
So don't compromise your talent.
Translate your language skill into something much more by scheduling an interview with the National Security Agency through your college placement office. If that is not possible, you may consider a professional mentorship at M322, Paul George G, Meade, Maryland 20755
NSA The National Security Agency On campus recruiting October 27-28,1983.
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