University Daily Kansan / Monday, April 15, 1991
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Secretary of Education's plan for reforms gets President's support
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — After barely a month on the job, Secretary of Education Lamar Alexander has gotten President Bush's backing for a far-reaching package of reforms that include national student tests and experiments with radically new ways of running schools.
Bush, who pledged during his 1988 campaign to be the "education president," will unveil the school reform package at the White House on Thursday after a luncheon with governors, an administration official said yesterday.
The fast-track initiative will embrace some of the same education themes that Bush and former President Reagan have sounded before: expanding parental choice in education and improving literacy and job training programs for dropouts, displaced workers and other adults.
But it will also put Bush's stamp, and Alexander's, on some radically new ideas, including pressing ahead
to develop a type of national student testing program, which a presidential advisory panel recently recommended.
Alexander is a former governor of Tennessee, who was president of the University of Tennessee, when Bush and McCain, on June 17 to succeed U.S. F. Cavazos F.
He won Bush's backing for his reform ideas within days of his March 18 swearing in, said chief investment representative Etta Fielek.
Alexander has cleaned house at the education department and lured David Kearns, a former chairperson of the Corp., to be his deputy secretary.
The reform package is still evolving. Fielek said.
"It is very complicated. It will not bring results overnight," she said. "But it will bring issues to the table."
The package is intended as a blueprint to help implement the ambitious but broad education goals that
Bush and the nation's governors set after an education summit in Charlottesville, Va., in September 1989.
Those goals include ridding schools of drugs and violence, drastically reducing the dropout rate and making them more academically relevant in the world in math and science by 2000.
The New York Times, in a report yesterday, said Bush would propose several hundred million dollars in new spending, primarily on grants to spur innovations that would include a new generation of U.S. schools to try longer school days or years and end with summer classes. Some schools may be operated by private industry, according to an unnamed official cited by the newspaper.
"There are four broad themes: better schools for the kids in school now, new schools for the students of the future, back to school for the adults, and then 'the other 91 percent.' " said Fieleb.
"The other 91 percent" is a phrase coined by Chester Finn Jr., a Vanderbilt University professor and former education department research chief. It refers to youth spending only 9 percent of their lives in the classroom by the time they graduate from high school.
Bush will seek to improve classroom performance by bolstering that 91 percent of their lives. Fielek said. Under that umbrella will fall such items as improving child nutrition and helping parents improve their skills in tutoring their own children.
National testing was once anathema to most education groups, rejected out of hand by teachers, administrators and superintendents alike.
The federal government plays a major role in funding remedial education for the poor and special education for the handicapped, but it does not set the public school curriculum that falls to state and local control.
Scientist says Soviets covered up the deaths caused by Chernobyl
LONDON — The most senior scientist at the Chernobyl nuclear power station says the disaster in 1986 claimed up to 10,000 lives, and authorities have admitted, a newspaper reported yesterday.
The Associated Press
The Independent newspaper quoted Vladimir Chernusenko as saying the fatalities included miners and military men who died from exposure to radiation during cleanup after the accident.
He is the scientific director in charge of the 18-mile exclusion zone surrounding the power station and said he himself had been given between two and four years to live because of his exposure to radiation. He said that, in part, prompted him to come forward.
"1 expected some measures and
some attempt to honestly deal with the situation," said Chernousenko. 50. "Now that I have seen, over five years, that no such thing is going on before I die I must make the world a aware of what they are facing."
Soviet authorities said 31 people died immediately following the explosion in April 1986. They have told me how many people have died since.
Chernusenko said 3.5 million people living in nearby Kiev were exposed to radiation levels hundreds of times higher than safe limits. He said the city should have been evacuated.
"Instead of focusing all efforts on the task of saving people, the whole system set about suppressing the disaster," he said.
Monday
- African and African-American Studies will sponsor a lunchtime seminar at noon at Alcove D in the Kansas Union.
■ KU Wellness Center will sponsor a "Stress Management" workshop at 12:10 p.m. at 138 Robinson Center.
Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas will sponsor a GALA Week gay and lesbian graduate student lecture at the Pine Roost in the Kansas Union.
Recycling Task Force will meet at 5:30 p.m. at the Regionalist Room in the Kansas Union.
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■ KU Accounting and IRS will sponsor a volunteer income tax assistance workshop at 6 p.m. at the
Hispanic American Leadership Organization will meet at 6:30 p.m. at the Walnut Room in the Kansas Union
■ KU Tae Kwon Do Club will sponsor a workout at 6:30 p.m. at 207 Robinson Center.
GLSOK will conduct a GALA Week lecture at 7 p.m. at Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
**Women's Transitional Care Services will sponsor a campus support group for battered women at 7 p.m. Call 841-6887 for the location.**
KU Triathletes will meet at 7:30 p.m. at Alceove A in the Kansas Union.
Tuesday
■ KU Wellness center will sponsor an "Overcoming Overeating" workshop at 12:10 p.m. at 138 Robinson Center.
Office of foreign student service will have a "Practical Training for Foreign Students" seminar at t. p.m. in the Alumni Room in the Kansas Union
■ KU Students Against Hunger will meet at 6 p.m. at the Jayhawk Room in the Kansas Union
GLSKO will sponsor a GALA Week gay and lesbian graduate student lecture at 3:30 p.m. at the Pine Room in the Kansas Union.
GLSOK, Women's Student Union and women's studies program will
have a GALA Week lecture at 7 p.m. at Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
**Women's Resource Center will sponsor a "Resume Writing and Interviewing Skills for Women" workshop at 5 p.m. at the Pine Room**
KU Fencing Club will meet at 8:30 p.m. at 130 Robinson Center.
Dr. Seuss Club will meet at 7 p.m.
Aloua D in the Kansas Union
- Voice will meet at 7 p.m. at 1204 Oread Ave.
Dr Seuss Club will meet at 7 p.m. at Alcove C in the Kansas Union. KU Fencing Club will meet at 8:30 at 101 Rehberg Center.
Wednesdav
GLSOK will have a GALA Week vigil for unity at 9:30 p.m. at City Hall, Sixth and Massachusetts streets.
GLSKO will have a GALA Week
"Wear Blue Jeans if You're Lesbian
or Gay Day" picnic at onno on the east lawn of Wescow Hall.
KU KWella Center will sponsor a "Stress Management" workshop at 12:10 p.m. at 138 Robinson Center.
Study Abroad will have an informational meeting at 1:30 p.m. at 203 Linncott.
■ KU Study Abroad in French-speaking countries will have an informational session at 3 p.m. at 2055 Wescote Hall.
GLSOK will have a GALA Week gay and lesbian graduate student at 3:30 p.m. at the Pine Room
in the Kansas Union.
Environers will meet at 6 p.m. at the Jayahawk Room in the Kansas Union. KU Tae Kwon Do Club will meet at 6:30 p.m. at 207 Robinson Center.
GLSOK and the department of art will sponsor GALA Week performance art at 8 p.m. at Downs Auditorium in Dyce Hall.
■ KU Pro Choice Coalition will meet at 7 p.m. at the International Room in the Kansas Union.
- Deborah Gordon of Stanford University, will be featured at the 1901 Michener Lecture, "Fliximity and the Foraging Ecology of Seed-Eating Ants" at 3:30 p.m. at 1005 Haworth Hall.
Thursdav
GLSOK will have a GALA Week and gay lesbian graduate student lecture at 3:30 p.m. at the Pine Room in the Kansas Union.
KU KWellness Center will sponsor an "Overcoming Overeating" workshop at 12:10 p.m. at 138 Robinson Center
GLSOK, Native American Student Association and the Psychology Department will have a GALA Week in the Purdue Pioneer Room in the Burpee Union.
KU Equestrian Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. at the International Room in the Kansas Union.
Jayhawk Audubon Society will meet at 7:30 p.m. at the Lawrence Presbyterian Manor, 15th Street and Kasol Avenue.
KU Fencing Club will meet at 8:30 p.m. at 130 Robinson Center.
Friday
Saturdav
- Lawrence Region Men and GLSOK will have a GALA Week Women's Widowed Group will meet at 7 p.m. at Watkins Museum.
- Readers' Theater at 7 p.m. at 100 Smith Hall.
KU Study Abroad will have a pre-department orientation at 8:45 a.m. at the Big Eight Room in the Kansas Union.
GLSOK will have a GALA Week parade, and rally picnic at 3 p.m. The march will begin at City Hall, Sixth and Massachusetts streets, and the rally and picnic will be at South 12th and Massachusetts streets.
GLSOK will sponsor a dance at 9 p.m. at the Party Room in the Burge Union.
GLSOK, KU Gay and Lesbian Alumni Association will have a GALA Week-KU Gay and Lesbian Alumni Association reunion at 11 a.m. at the English Room in the Kansas Union.
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