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By Carollnnerst
tHe WASHINGTON TIMES
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rigorous academicstandards than ,educatiori is at stake. "
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AFT 'today at the National' Press ceptiveto merit pay that would pay ,
, ,Albert' Sharlker, ,president of the ,What won't help education rei, American Federation of Thachersform, he will 'tell delegates, are Club. "
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,Mrs. Dickerson supported Edu- ter teachers, as determined by 'the ,
In his view; internatioruilly com- he' calls "highly politiciz~ ideas, cation, Alternatives Inc., ,the pri-',' National Board for Professional '
petitive standards are the, key to ,which are so far unproven.",
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vate firm hired to mage some of Teaching Standards ,ora state"
the, education reform that has
' ,union critics say his standards
the city's ,failing public schools. 'board or some process Jhat's not;
eluded the country since a, 1983 message is a "diversion" and point t But the ,partne '
as opposed labor'vs: manager, or because they',
, panel assessed tpe' quality of ' to the gap between Mr. Shanker's, by the ~on andfin
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teach in an' ar~ of shoz:tage!' , ; :
:America's schools and declared rhetoric and the actions of AFT
"Invltmg the ,teachers unions to,
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, the, United States' "A, Nation at, , locals thatthwait school reform.
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, :the ll-term uruon leader isn't to reforming our nation's failing
says Charles Heatherly, senior started by teachers;,parents;a uni
vice president of the Claremont versity;a business or a community .
· just talking about higher stan- 'schools than the National Educadards for pupils. "
. , ' tion AssOciation;' warns the CoaliInstitute who w~s deputy under- ag~ncy. They are'freed of many of •
secretary for managem~ntat the' the regulations that thwart inno
, , "I'd give a, bonus to teachers tion to EduCate America, a group
who pass a'subject-matter test at' representing the Education Policy , US.'DepartmeIlt of Education in vation. Unions see them as a step
th~ Reagan administration. '
toward privatization.
a pretty high level:'Mr., Shanker ,Institute, the Claremont Institute;
Sil)ts· ','And I'd provide extra money the Alexis de 'lbcqueville IIlStituUnion leaders have tried for 10
The AFT, .like the' 2.2-million~
for people who have more than one', tion and the, National, Right to· years to convince locals that "ri-' memper NEA, is experimenting
'Work Legal Defense Foundation.
gidity:' in their. contracts may with a . few of its own charter.
, area of expertise!' , " ( ,
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"AFT localS continue to poison
stand.in the, waY ,of schools doing :,schools. 'lbmoITow, the AFT will,
, AFT for 22 years and is expected
reforms that ,would facilitate or things differently, Mr. Shanker release its analysis of state charter
· .to be elected to another two-year' make teacher performance a real. ' says.
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term'Monday, will lay out his re: determinant of hiring, evaluation, . "I can't think of a local of any' . Continuing to prod the states to .
form ideas today when he delivers transfer and firfrig declsions,"SaYs, size. in, the country that's ip ,the ' work on setting strong academic. ,
I' his State of the Union'message'to
Charlene Haar;a former NEA af- ··AFT that has 'not basically modistandards as discussed at the.
3,000 delegates gathered. in Cin- filiate officer who is president of ned its contract to allow for Ii treNational l Education Summit in
cinnati for the ,80th birthday and the nonprofit Education Policy In- . mendous amount of deviation:' he March; the imion M,(:mdl:!y will re-"
74th 'convention of, the 900,000- stitute., .
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lease a report assessmg each,
member union.
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"I would say, if anything, teach- . state's progress., . , .
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'Mr. Shanker will remind mem- 'gle with'the Hartford Federation ers and ,unions have been too , . As .with the first report a year; .
. 'ago, this one is expected to show:
, tiers that unions, accused of being' .of . Thachers for 12 years;' 'says . fleXible:' he says., \
Unions have long opposed merit
that goodintentioris have not re-'
stumbling blocks to reform, must Thelma, Dickerson, a. member of .
change and become more flexible . the Board of Education of Hart- .' pay for teachers, preferring.the ' sulted in "world-class "standards..:
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The projp-am 'was anackedon'. . Judge Lisa Sadler of the,Frankfederal and state· constitutional lin County Court of Common Pleas
. grounds; including the First noted that the legislature intended:
" Voucher proponents celebrated Amendment,Mr. Bolick said. "The~ the scholarships to be available to
, Wednesday when an, Ohio judge' judge ruled against the plaintiffs" studentsattendjngboth'publicand
upheld the constitUtionality' of a . on .all grounds.' It's' a precedent· nonpublic schools.
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'contested school-choice law' that . that can be cited in other. cases, . Citing legal precedents;. she·
allows tax-funded "scholarships'" ~cluding Milwaukee!'·
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wrote: "This court is persuaded
· at private and religious schools.
"We're clearly c\isappomted, but that the nonpublic J sectarian
. The case has pitted· the state af- this is the first round in a: fight that schools participating iii. the schol~
Ciliates of the 2.2-million-member .will. go several rounds;' said AFT , arship program are, benefitted'
National ;,Education Association, ,'spokesman Jamie Horowitz.
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the',900,000-memlier American
The ACLU and the unions see ~sult of the ;genu!ne1y inciepenFederation of Teachers and the .the program as an establishment dent and private choices of aid re"American Civil Liberties Union , of religion, and, as such, a viola-' Cipients!'"
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The Franklin. County. Circuit
against the state of Ohio and the tion of federal.and state constitu~
Washi'ngton-based ,Instinit~ .for tions' freedom-of-re1igion clauses,' Court is the next likely stop for the"
Justice, which is representing low- "
"No other court of which we are plaintiffs to' file an 'appeal for an
income families' who would bene- aware has upheld the use. of pu~lic 'emergencY'injunction to prevent
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funds for religious education at
the pr~gram from starting, the
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'.that this program will start when Donald Mooney, lead ~ttorney for
The voucher program; 'which'
schools :open in late ,August and the plaintiffs. '~In,this case, $5 mil:' ..applie!). only to Cieveland, was
early September,".' said Clint ,lion will be taken from Cleveland
signed into law last slimmer by'.
Bolic~, Vice president and litiga- . public schools; to benefit a reiGov. George V. Voinovich, a Republican. It'is scheduled to begin thiS
tion director for the Institut!'! for ativelysmallnumber of students
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· By Carol Innetst
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
' Scholarships were awarded in a : ,
lottery last summer after the state ' ,
receiVed 6,200 applications ,for: ' .
1,500 vouchers worth $2,250 each. '
Not' all·, of. the money earmarked,
for the program was used, so the :
state issued additional scholar-: j
ship,s' this summer.: . , "
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"There could be as many' as ;
i;ooo scholarships, most intended '
to be used at religious schools:' Mr..
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Last su'mmer,Ohiobecame the •
second state to enact voucher leg- '
islation enabling· poor, .primarily,' .
minority 'children .to att~nd the,.
public or private -includihg reU- .
gious - schools th~ir' families .
chose .
Mr. Bolick's organizati~n also is; ..
involved, in defending s'chool,
vouchers in WisConsin,where Mil- '
.waukee's 5-year-old voucher pro- .
gram isthe'onIY plan in .~he co,!n-,
try that permits public funds to gO:1
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W~II S~reet raised th~ stocks of com- , b~en lobbying the_ FCC, ag.gressiv~ly~Hing,a~ analys~ at Prudential Secitri- From page 811
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form of telecommunication~ law.
mUnICatlOns, compames yes~erday :' since February;- when President Cltn- ties. "Prior to thiS, there was total un- " "
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after the Federal Communications
ton signed into law a telecommunica-certainty" on how the regulations ers. The cable compames already
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months to put out the 600-page or
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,Commission laid out its ground rules -tions reform bin-that aimed to break 'would affect the industry.
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for I'!reakingup the Baby, Bells' .mono~, down the reg~latory bat:riers,.among.:..., : Th,e. FCC rules lay out pro~edures I' but.are uslOg the m(.mey to ,expa!ld
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poly control of 10C8;Ll?hofle s-:rvlce: . - local, long-d~stance an.d '\Vlreless' reqUiring loca~ phone comp~mt:s such, their channel capacity and to build ,
phone compame$. Among ItS 600 pages, a~; Bell Atlantic to lease their hnes ,il)' s~stems th~t ,can offer phone ser- '.
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lines t~ aHow .new compaqies, or 'such,
are policy decisions thatcotild result
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in shifting 'billions, of dollars in 'rev-' , ',compete in selling local business and
"This expense IS actually gOing
established giants as AT&T and MCI
this weekend.for its August recess.r
enues among various sectors of thein- ' residential phone service. '
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Mrs. Keen~:who will be 41 on
residential phone servi~e for the first
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access' charges that long-distance' once many compames fstart offer- ,By WASHINGTON TIMES
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!1etworks, \ihf FCC's rules make it easWan Street responded ,by bidding
and into homes and offices. T\1e access Vices.,
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ler for them to get started by .leasing
Bell AtlantiC's stock up $1.63 a share to' fees, estimated at more than $20 billion
That money wdl be poured back ' reer official at the Federal Comand, moVed t9 Capitol Hill, where
a year, get passed along to customers ' h1t9. the econom~ a!ld could.lead to '!11unications Commission, to fiII a
Iin'c!;ifrom the established compa'niesclose at $60.75, and edging MCI up 75
she was communications counsel
at a discount.
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in rates for long-distance bills.'
addmg up to 1 mllho!1 new JO!:?s by vacant Republican seaton the
to R.epublican, members' of' the
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rose 38 cents a share to $52.63. Bell- ","I think the reason Wall Street re- 2000, Mr. Wallace said.
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sponded like that was [the' FCC de- tefday's decis~on will lead to re- the agency~s telephone division for , FCC in 1994 as chief of its wireless
. cision] doesn't seem to have done any ~structuring of the,Baby Bells, as' the past two years, will serve, out
bureau and was, nfimea chief of the
common-carrier' bureau in Nogreat damage to any of tile parties" . AT&T has done by spinning off its the,term of Andrew Barrett, who
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said Henry Geller, a.Jorme'r gener~t equipment-making divisions ttlis stepped down from - thefive~ -, vember 1995.
counsel to the FCC.
' ' year. The Bells might spin orf their member commiss~on in May.
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ately from yesterday'sruhng because tlonal holdmgs, he saId.
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"This ruli,nggives incentive to' to be nominated as commissioner," " ·'I'm·' ~elighted that Regina .
, decisions on phone rates in the new era the Bells to upgrade their net- said FCC ,c;hairman Reed Hundt.' Keeney has beel) nominated for an
.ofcompetition and companies must ' works" to be able to handle high- "This history-making nomination -FCC commission seat. It's a, plea
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on the corrimission'sruling yester, "For .the average consumer, :theCable,services, he said.'
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senior Senate staffer," said Com
said Regina Keeney; the head of the plauded the'FC~'s ruling, tnoughbreaking up ,the Baby Bells' rn on missioner James Quello.
they had various small objections.
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In fact, phone rates probably will . But some of the FCC dec,isionsare
rise over the next few months'to help bound to be challenged in court, '
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•Wallace; an analyst at Lehman. Broth:' ·"1 think it is full employmenrfor
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