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University Daily Kansan, April 27, 1983
Portugal forming coalition
By United Press International
LISBON, Portugal — The victorious Socialist Party began searching yesterday for a partner to form a majorly-based government, but the reluctance of the Social Democrats to threaten defeated a political stalemate.
The center-right cabinet of Prime Minister Francisco Pinto Balsema, anxious to end its four-month caretaker function, said there was an agreement to form a new government to grapple with the country's economic crisis.
BUT BALSEMAO's own Social Democrat Party, which dropped to second place in Monday's general election, appeared to be the main obstacle to Portugal's 15th government in nine years of democracy.
Sources in the Social Democratic Party, now led by 47-year-old law professor Carlos Mota Pinto, said the party was divided over whether to join the Socialists of former Prime Minister Mario Soares. $8.
The Social Democrats, whom most observers said were the Socialists' only "viable" ally, scheduled a weekend trip to national council to debate the issue.
The moderate Socialists won 36 percent of the vote Monday - a 10 percent increase - and about 101 seats in the 250-member Parliament.
SOARES, OUT of power since 1978, could achieve a majority coalition with either the Moscow-line communists, who won 18 percent of the vote, or the conservative Christian Democrats with 12 percent.
But preferring a broad centrist alliance, he would not win by either extreme.
The Socialists were polling their 100,000 party members for approval to join with the Social Democrats, who have a percent of the vote and about 75 seats.
Many observers said a new government would not be formed until June or July and that they did not expect President Antonio Ranchoalho Eanes to become prime minister until after the official election returns were released May 6.
Sandi Moles/Special to the Kansar
Sandy Lord, Overland Park senior, and her boyfriend, Phil McAnany, Lake Quivira senior, sun themselves after enjoying a picnic at Potter Lake.
Study calls for school reform
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — The nation's students need to do more homework and spend more time in school with better-paid teachers, a special study group said yesterday. The group called education reforms but offered no price tag.
The National Commission on Excellence in Education also recommended cracking down on disprove students, setting higher college admission standards and toughening high school requirements in math, science and biology.
In an "Open Letter to the American People," the commission said, "The educational foundations of our society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocracy that threatens our very future as a nation and as a people.
"IF AN UNFRIENDLY foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war."
President Reagan fully endorsed the commission's recommendations and blamed federal intervention, in part, for the crisis in the classroom.
Reagan linked future progress in education to his political agenda, which seeks to give states and localities greater control of their schools.
Meeting with a group of educators at the White House, he said recent policies have squandered the gains of the Soviets in education and big education buildup after the Soviets
launched the first satellite a generation ago.
Education Secretary Terrel Bell, who created the panel 20 months ago, publicly released the commission's report in the day at a briefing with reporters.
"THIS REPORT IS especially well received because it offers a blueprint for educational renewal," Bell said. "I support the recommendations and support the findings."
The commission did not say how much its ambitious proposals might cost, nor did it recommend how they might be paid. But it noted that the federal government had the primary responsibility to ensure students received education and should help fund and support efforts to achieve these goals.
Bell, who has reigned over President Reagan's efforts to hold the line on federal spending for education, said, "Financing education is primarily the responsibility of the states and local governments."
The 18-member commission was led by David Gardner, who recently was named president of the University of California, effective in July. Members included two state school board members, two high school principals, two college professors and one high school teacher.
sign of the times - a half-year of computer science. Most states now require only three years of English, two years of math and one of science.
IN ITS REPORT, "A Nation at Risk:
The imperative for Educational Re-
search."
students should be assigned fat more homework," since many pupils spend no more than a few hours a week studying at home.
High school graduation requirements should include four years of English, three years each of math, science and social studies, and in a
—School districts and state legislatures should consider seven-hour school days and 200- to 220-day school years. Most states now require a 180-day school year and about a six-hour day.
The commission said teachers should be better paid, noting the average salary for a teacher with 12 years of experience is $7,000, for less than other professions.
IT ALSO recommended high educational standards for teachers, and development of "career ladders . . . that distinguish among the beginning instructor, the experienced teacher and the master teacher."
To back up its case, the panel noted: —International comparisons of student achievement, completed a decade ago, reveal that on 19 academic tests American students were never first or second and were last seven times when compared with other industrialized nations.
—Scores on the high school Scholastic Aptitude Tests steadily declined from 1963 to 1980.
—Business and the military spend millions annually on remedial training for reading, writing and computation.
About 23 million American adults are functionally illiterate.
Matching service offers students part-time jobs
Students still looking for a job this summer need not get desperate yet — there is one more place they can try, a financial aid official said recently.
Students willing to work on a part-time basis can often make more than 84 an hour, the official, Pam Brown, director of the office of financial aid, said.
SHE RESURRECTED a matching service last fall for students and part-time jobs in the city.
Students willing to work part-time might end up doing things such as baling hay, baby-sitting or house cleaning.
The list was started because students were having difficulty finding jobs, and businesses and individuals had called looking for part-time help, she said.
Baby-sitting and yard work are two of the more common jobs available.
The jobs are for usually on one day, she said. The office of financial aid keeps separate lists for people who are looking for more permanent jobs.
*THERE are about 40 students on the part-time job list and about 20 businesses and individuals who have called for workers.
Houston said she kept the names of potential workers on file. When employers call, she gives them five names to try.
The numbers do not discourage her; Houston said, because she thinks that as more people become aware that the service will improve the service, those numbers will grow.
"Usually, those five names are enough," she said. "Sometimes, if employer requests it, with the help of work, students will be hired on a more permanent basis.
"SOMETIMES STUDENTS" even hire other students to help them move. I'll be using the list within the next few weeks to find someone to wash my hands.
The list has only been in use for about a year, she said.
A similar service was discontinued a year ago because students were not applying.
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