University Daily Kansan. October 4. 1983
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Group says Lawrence High needs tougher standards
By SUSAN WORTMAN Staff Renorter
Some Lawrence High School students are graduating without getting a solid education, said Joe Takacs, chairman of the Chamber of Commerce's Educa-
Because of those concerns, his committee has recommended that the number of graduation requirements at the school be increased next year. The board of Education will discuss the requirement changes when it meets Monday.
"There is a need for kids to have more basics before they graduate from high school." "Takacs said. 'They learn English, Engineering, math more — basically the three R's.'"
THE STATE NOW requires students to take four years of English, one year of math, one year of science and three semesters of social science.
If the board adopts the proposal, students will have to take two years of science, two years of math, two years of social science and, perhaps, a year of computer science, according to Robert Taylor, assistant director of curriculum and instruction. The English requirement would remain the same.
The board is considering the changes in graduation requirements because the Kansas Department of Education requires that students statewide requirements, Taylor said.
Takacs said that the need to increase requirements also was brought to the committee's attention by "A Nation at Risk," a federal report released in February that studied the state of the public education system.
THE BOARD HAS even discussed raising the requirements again before the next round.
The chamber's Education Committee worked on the proposal for three or four months, Takacs said. The board is
The decisions must be made soon because students from area junior high schools will begin high school pre-
expected to reach a decision on the changes by late November or early December. he said.
'It took 15 years for the educational system to fall apart. It will probably take another five years to get it back together.'
Joe Takacs,
enrollment in January, and because eighth-grade students would be the first group of students affected by the change, Taylor said.
Committee chairman
Taylor said a number of items also had to considered before the requirements could be approved.
The increase in requirements would be good for some students, he said. But the increase could cause problems for students who already are struggling.
BUT MIKE BROWNING, director of guidance at Lawrence High, said the board would have to decide if the change is even necessary.
"When people look at the number of credits, they assume students are graduating with the minimum," he said.
Out of more than 500 graduating seniors, only 17 were in danger of not meeting the school's minimum requirements, he said. The bulk of the class, about 45 percent, are already two years of science and math, Browning said.
Takacs said he thought that the Lawrence school system was good but needed to be improved. One way to do that is to raise graduation requirements, he said.
"Colleges and high schools in the past have turned out a lot of students, but they aren't ready for the work force," Takacs said. "We have people come out of our buildings to use applications properly. The spelling is bad and the math has deteriorated."
TAKACS SAID THAT many jobs were available in the Lawrence job market, but that some high school students were poorly trained to handle those jobs.
By their senior year, students often only need one or two credits to graduate, said Ann Wiklund, director of membership and community affairs at the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce. She thought if students spent more time in the classroom, they might learn more.
Still, Takas said the proposed curriculum changes would not necessarily be the answer to the problem of student illiteracy.
High Court permits community gun-control effort
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court signaled yesterday that it would not stand in the way of community to ban handguns from residents' homes.
Justices consider agenda on new term's opening day
Opening its 1983-84 term, the high court declined to review a federal appeals court ruling that approved a stringent handgun ordinance enacted in Morton Grove, Ill. — thought to be the first of its kind.
In other action at the beginning of the new nine-month term, justices agreed to consider a series of First Amendment cases — ranging from regulation of cable television to protesters' rights to express their political views by sleeping in tents set up across from the White House.
GUN-CONTROL ADVOCATES hailed their action in the Morton Grove case as a green light for local authorities to enact tough gun laws.
"The decision means a lot of small towns and villages will now pass laws based on our ordinance," said Morton. "We are here with the answer." "There is nowhere for the NRA to go."
But spokesmen for the National Rifle Association predicted it would have no major leagues.
"Basically they (the justices) have not resolved anything," NRA spokesman Jack Adkins said. "They've merely thrown the ball back into the court room, opening the door for the Illinois State Supreme Court to resolve the issue."
The huge, marble-and-mahogany courtroom was packed when the justices ascended the bench for the traditional "First Monday in October"
A FIRST ORDER of business was to hear arguments — for the second time
- in the celebrated baby journal case that will settle whether Ammys programs and movies at home without violating copyright law.
The justices also agreed for the first time to consider to what extent cable television programming may be regulated. The court said it would take up questioning of whether states may ban liquor advertisements from cable television and "super-stations."
Also on the court's agenda for the new nine-month term is a federal appeals court ruling that held sleeping in a national park as a constitutionally protected form of expression. The case was sparked last March when temporary tent cities — dubbed "Reagan wagons" — were set up across from the White House and the Capitol to dramatize the plight of the homeless.
THE GOVERNMENT SAID it was
that sleeping in the bus was illegal.
The justices also will examine whether newspapers sued for libel can publish information obtained from the other side during pre-trial investigations. The case involves the Seattle Times and a religious leader, who sued the paper for libel for describing his organization as a "bizarre Seattle
- Said it would review the constitutionality of a New York law prohibiting loitering for the purpose of soliciting a sex partner.
- Agreed to consider whether a city must pay the minimum wage to employees of a municipally owned mass transit system, a requirement cities say violates their ability to control the cost of services to citizens.
- Agreed to decide whether state public defenders were totally immune from lawsuits filed by disgruntled clients.
In other actions, the court:
KU and WSU have increase in enrollment
By the Kansan Staff
The University of Kansas and Wichita State University were the only Regents universities to register an increase in fall on-campus enrollment, according to figures yesterday by the Board of Regents.
Fall enrollment decreased from last fall at Emporia State University, Pittsburgh State University, and Fort Hays State University.
Enrollment at the Lawrence campus is 22,520, an increase of 149 students over last year's 20th day enrollment of 22,371. Enrollment at the College of Health Sciences in Chicago is 2,401, a increase of 54 students.
WICHITA STATE'S ENROLLMENT increased to 17,242. The university also had the only increase in full-time equivalent enrollment, or FTE, a measure the state Legislature uses to distribute money to Regents universities. Wichita State's FTE increased by 70.
FTE enrollment at KU was 21,500,
a decrease of 384 from last fall.
FTE is calculated by dividing the number of credit hours by the average full-time course loads for the student and veterinary or law students.
Robert Cobb, executive vice chancellor, said increased main campus enrollment coupled with a lower cost of living that students were taking fewer hours.
Kith Neitch, director of business affairs, has said that he could not speculate on what effect the lower FTE figure would have until FTE figures for the 1984 spring semester and summer session were available.
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