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Tuesday, October 27.1992
TIN PAN ALLEY 1105 Massachusetts
Spend your Halloween Front and Center with the deliciously entertaining multimedia theatre
What's so Funny
Music by Philip Glass
Visual Design by Red Grooms
Written and Directed by David Gordon
Presented by the University of Kansas School of Fine Arts New Directions Series Commissioned by Spoleto Festival and Serious Fun at Lincoln Center
8:00 p.m.
Saturday, October 31, 1992
Crafton-Preyer Theatre/Murphy Hall
Tickets on sale in the Murphy Hall Office Box; KU student tickets available in the SUA Office, Burge Union all seats reserved; public $16 & $14, KU and K-12 students $8 & $7, senior citizens and other students $15 & $13; to charge tickets by phone, using VISA or MasterCard, call 913/864-3982.
This performance is partially funded by the KU Student Senate Activity Fee, Swarthout Society, and the Kansas University Endowment Association. The 1992-93 New Directions Series is partially funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
"Gloriously sad and funny piece...it's constructed of fast-flying plays on ideas that draw simultaneously on words, movements, and images." Tobia Tobi, New York Magazine
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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Clinton to introduce school reform
By Mark Martin
Kansan staff writer
When Bill Clinton became governor of Arkansas in 1979, a nationwide report showed that Arkansas had the lowest educational standards in the country.
ANALYSIS
In his six terms as governor, Clinton has made education one of his biggest priorities, and most educational institutions say education in Arkansas is better.
"He did create a lot of good changes in Arkansas, I don't think many would argue with that," said Susan Fuhrman, director of the Consortium for Policy Research in Education at Rutgers University.
attend college now than when Clinton took office.
Today, teacher salaries in Arkansas remain low compared to other states, as does per-pupil spending. But 20 percent more Arkansas students
As president, Clinton promises to introduce an education reform package in the first 100 days of his presidency. The package would include:
full financing of the Head Start program, a national day care system for disadvantaged preschool students.
establishing a Youth Opportunity Corps, which would place high school dropouts with adult mentors. Furman pointed out that programs like this exist around the country. Clinton's program would make it a government program instead of a private one.
- developing a National Service Trust Fund, which would give loans
to anyone wanting to attend college. Loans would be repaid through community service or as a percentage of future income.
Diane Del Buono, director of the office of student financial aid at the University of Kansas, said financial aid did not reform. Del Buono said that students were never loans instead of grants and that default rates on loans were high.
"Clinton's ideas on financial aid have merit," she said. "But a lot would depend on how they'd be implemented."
Much of what Bill Clinton and George Bush say about education is similar, and for good reason. Clinton was the lead writer in the National Governor's Association "National Education Goals," much of which President Bush adapted in his America 2000—a long-term education plan.
Perot says U.S. schools are failing
By Christine Laue
Kansan staff writer
Ross Perot says schools in the United States are failing.
"You've got to have a recipe, not just a menu," said Max Heim, KU professor of education policy and administration.
But education experts say Perot's plans are not specific enough to tell whether he would pass or fail if elected president.
Perot outlines eight steps for reforming education in the United States in his book "United We Stand." Some of those steps include:
establish comprehensive preschool programs.
- treating teachers as respected professionals by increasing pay and giving them community recognition.
- giving parents more input in their
- giving parents more input in their
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children's educations by allowing them to choose which schools within their districts their children will attend.
Parental choice in education is the main issue in education being debated by the presidential candidates.
Perot supports public school choice and says the government should remove any federal obstacles to public education, public, private and religious schools,
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The National Education Association says such a reduction of obstacles means Perot supports vouchers, or federal money, for tuition at private and religious schools.
"That issue alone puts the NEA in firm opposition to Ross Perot," said Mickey Ibarra, political advocacy
manager for NEA government relations.
But it took a lot of explanations on how he plans to implement his eight steps also has influenced the NEA's decision to endorse Bill Clinton, Ibarra said. Although Perot's ideas about financing primary and secondary education remain vague, he has spoken in the past in support of college financing in Texas. But he has not publicly discussed proposals for federal programs.
"We assume he doesn't have any or else he would've told us about them," Ibarra said.
Darrel King, Shawne County coordinator for the Perot campaign, said that he also was uncertain about Perot's specifics on certain issues like college financing but that Perot was in favor of assisting students who need financial support.
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