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The objectives, products of a two-day education summit, range from reversing a one in three dropout rate to making educators more accountable for their pupils' classroom performance.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Heeding President Bush's warning that the nation is imperiled when children "emerge into adulthood ignorant and unskilled," the nation's governors joined him yesterday in framing national goals for improving America's public schools.
Expanding pre-kindergarten programs to prepare poor youngsters for schooling was emphasized.
The president called for greater competition in education and a report card for all, in which parents, educators and staff could all see how their schools rank.
Gov. Terry Branstad, R-Iowa, said the summit marked the first time governors and a president had met to discuss results-oriented goals for education.
break apart over a fight over how much money they'll have to put up next year," sad Gov. Bill Clinton, D-Ark.
The set of goals called for helping
He ticked off what national tests have shown the problem to be. He said "fewer than one high school junior in four can write an adequate persuasive letter and only half can manage decimals, fractions and percentages and barely one in three can locate the Civil War in the correct half century."
FORT SILL, Okla. — Artillery fire echoed in the distance yesterday as Army investigators examined blood-stained soldiers' clothing and inspected the crater where a stray round killed three soldiers and injured 23 at Fort Sill.
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The soldiers, in the seventh week of an eight-week training course at the sprawling Field Artillery Center in Oklahoma, were in line to leave their basic training site when the artillery round hit about 5 p.m. Wednesday.
Staff Sgt. Scottie Harris of Rockmant, Ga., and Pvt. 1 David Saltsman of Dayton, Texas, were in critical condition yesterday, and Pvt. 1 David Adams of Vinemont, Ala., Troy Emmons of Hubbard, Neb., Charles McCrossen of Mason, Ohio, and David Mechem of Wichita, Ka'n, were in serious condition, post spokesman Daran Keal, Kan.
"While millions of Americans read for pleasure," the president said, returning to his particulars, "millions of others don't read at all. And while millions go to college, millions may never graduate from high school."
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Col. William Gonzales, commander at Reynolds Army Hospital at Fort Sill, said six soldiers underwent surgery Wednesday night. One soldier, who was not identified, had his leg amputated.
Bush, governors set agenda for education improvements
Three soldiers killed in Oklahoma
Twenty-two soldiers remained hospitalized. Fourteen of those hospitalized were in stable condition, and two were in good condition.
WASHINGTON — Colombian President Virgilio Barco praised the United States yesterday for its $65 million in emergency assistance even as he sought new help on trade issues.
Officials search for stray round's cause
Colombia requests additional aid from U.S.
The summit didn't reach conclusions on how to pay for the reforms.
Gov. Booth Gardner, D-Wash. said that although federal money was limited, the summit participants had agreed that additional education money that might become available would be applied to the issue of early childhood education and Head Start
"We just don't think that at this time it's worth letting the summit
Barco met with national drug control policy director William J. Bennett at the Colombian ambassador's
children prepare for school through nutrition programs and Head Start; making educators more accountable for students' progress; keeping drugs out of schools; bolstering on-the-job education to make workers more competitive; improving literacy throughout the population; giving educators more flexibility by reducing state and federal regulations; and combating a dropout rate that has been approaching 30 percent.
"It could be material, or it could be human," Hennies said yesterday. "If it's human, it could be in standards, in training, in leaders, in individuals or in any combination thereof. Our purpose is to analyze these findings and come up with a preventive program."
Gen. Lou Hennies, director of Army safety for the Army Safety Center at Fort Rucker, Ala., said a four-man team from Fort Rucker would investigate the accident
Master Sgt. Michael Brown said Pvt. 1 Jimmy N. McCain, 21 of Troy, Ala., and Spec. Thomas P. Boyle, 25 of Ventura, Calif., were killed. The name of the third soldier killed was being withheld pending notification of relatives.
"There never was this much money," he said, adding that this hurricane may have been "the most damaging one in history."
continued to slip.
Colombian coffee prices began to fall sharply when the 74-nation International Coffee Agreement collapsed in July after the United States pulled out in a price dispute with coffee-producing nations.
McAda said the aid could not go for home or business repairs to people who had insurance. But he did say that the assistance provided for private loans of up' to $10,000 for people "who have needs and cannot qualify for loans."
Colombian officials have suggested they would have an even more, diffi- time persuading hard-pressed Colombia Colomba instead of coca if coffee export prices
residence and introduced various issues, including trade matters such as coffee, Colombia's main legal export, and cut flowers, Bennett said. Many of those issues will be discussed with President Bush later.
Barco ordered the drug crackdown after the Aug. 18 assassination of Luis Carlos Galan, a leading presidential candidate.
It was the largest such disaster-relief measure ever approved by either chamber of Congress, according to Bill McAda, a spokesman for the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Senate allots $1.1 billion in Hugo aid
WASHINGTON — The Senate yesterday approved $1.1 billion in emergency aid for victims of hurricane Hugo as the White House President Bush would inspect the storm damage in South Carolina.
The aid, which is expected to win quick approval in the House, is attached to a stopgap spending resolution intended to keep government agencies operating when the new fiscal year begins Sunday. The spending measure passed by a vote of 100 to 0.
"I have never seen so much damage in my life," Sten. Srom Thurmond, R.S.C., told his colleague. "The bomb had like there had been a war, there
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... We need all the help we can get."
At the White House, presidential spokesman Marin Fitzwater said Bush would fly to South Carolina today to get a firsthand look at the hurvao left in the wake of Hugo's passing a week ago.
He said the president wanted "to make sure that all that can be done is being done" and to assure the people of South Carolina that Gov. Carroll Campbell would provide whatever help was available.
McAda said there had never been a one-time emergency relief package this large.
Sen. Ernest Hollings, D-S.C., said Wednesday that damage in his state was between $3 billion and $4 billion but that getting that amount would be impossible without forcing across-the-board federal budget cuts.