European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 22, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes april 1977 school forecast Cardinale tells p7sa Parley of improved building Outlook by Mike Spear staff writer Germany is vol wide ranging efforts arc under Way to improve the Quality of education in overseas dependents More budget Money is Likely to be available next year and dependents schools Are in the process of taking Over the authority for repairing and maintaining that is the message Anthony Cardi director of overseas dependents brought to the annual european pts convention but he also told the More than 250 Par students and administrators hero that budget tightening would eliminate personnel by the end of cardinals praised the convention theme partnership in saying he would like to see it become a permanent theme for operating the overseas have the support of the military and we have Congress behind so we have the capability of becoming one of the greatest school systems the world has Ever lie old he cardinals pointed out that educational goals and objectives have been issued for programs including physical Edu social language arts and English As a second lie said curriculum specialists would put the final touches on these in he said he schools have issued uniform requirements for graduation for he firs these dictate thai a student graduating from All overseas High schools must have completed 18 units of course four of which must be in four years of English Are a require ment for he this is a signed it is out and it becomes effective at he beginning of next school lie said the requirement is a result of a Survey of 20o school its aim is to ensure that students who leave the de Pendents schools will fit into stateside Mac flights the following information on military Airlift come commercial contract flights arriving and departing re Finmain april 2430 is provided for Cus Tomer All times Are local Standard All passengers departing re Finmain Are reminded that they May checking up to six and on half hours ear Lier than inc published limes for further flight information Call Auto on 462g813 or ill Finmain military 23051 Rhein flight m apr h to to m 1 m april t oif offt 4 a flt 1 00pm j 3qprr Jersey u s april 74ip n april 09p n april cup Fuu s it april 6 00 a 1 Doprr to 2 pm be 10 d 10 sip 6 top to a april april us Wpm april 4 m noon toss pm april flight number prefix code a Ausha b c d e f flying Tiger c Seaboard world h Continental j trans  k Mackey l m n Narter Wesl Orient p pan o Ore stat it Airlift International s Reeve Aleutian t Vrans u United v w x Saturn other classrooms without being he cardinals said the school budget request for 1978 amounts to million compared to working budget this year of Mil the 1978 budget has been Cut by million in budgetary hearings but an at tempt is under Way to gel it he in a move described As tying it All to Cardinale said the dependents schools have asked for authority to take Over repair and maintenance of the schools from the we have gone to the military departments and to the secretaries and they have agreed thai they would be willing to turn this responsibility Over to beginning in fiscal year he we Are now looking Over their books and their priority cardinals called it a significant saying it Wilt end Competition for the base commanders Thoy have a mis Sion which is keeping planes in the air or tanks ready on the and if a request House hears Dod aide need for new school in Stuttgart argued  Washington Bureau chief Washington the need for a new million dependents school for grades kindergarten through 12 in Stutt was defended before a congressional panel by a defense depart ment witness additional space is needed to provide the Quality of education appropriate for Dod said William Dola logistics department of defense dependents1 schools t the requirement for additional facilities in the heavily populated Stuttgart area has existed for several Delaney told House subcommittee on military construction of the appropriations com Delaney said the school was originally built for 700 but now has a cur rent enrolment of a House Survey and investigative staff recommended that the present school be rather than provide funds for a new after visiting several dependents schools in Ger Many last we found the schools to be in a deplorable said one congressional in he said the investigation showed the government could belter spend Money making improvements in existing facile some of the schools we visited were filthy and had broken windows and he in a 1973 evaluation by the North Central association of colleges and the Stuttgart school facilities were cited for inadequacies and the association provides accreditation for schools and this citation could Well Lead to the loss of accreditation unless a Bona fide commit ment is made to alleviate overcrowding in the Delaney he told the House to conclude that new facilities should not be built to re place grossly deficient merely because the old ones Are not kept strikes me As a of punish ing the child for the sins of the crowded and otherwise deficient conditions contribute to the cleaning Bright uncrowded fac Liles encourage a Scase of Pride among students and and can tend to reduce unsightly conditions As a Delancy we certainly would not expect this committee to approve funds for construction of a school merely because schools Here kept not to deny them because some schools were reported to be he the committee is coast during evidence to justify the pentagons billion construction authorization Bill for fiscal year the proposed school at Stuttgart is a line item in that As is a million request for a 20classroom Junior High school at Germany there was no discussion on the Sembach school request Gunn the subcommittee said in a Telephone inter we reached no decisions we still want to hear the pros and cons of the Issue before markup of the Bill in Early Mckay said the committee is considering the report on the school a special staff assistant of the commit tee were waiting to see additional response from Pentagon officials about the according to a Point Point response to several of the most vital issues raised by the investigators will be an he charged that a Large number of the statements in the congressional report Are either inaccurate or pledge closer partnership Washington a president Carter welcomed portuguese prime minis Ter Mario scares to the White House thurs Day and declared to is very proud of the close Friendship and partnership with 1 believe its going to be even Strong Carter told soars As the two leaders posed for photographers in the White House Oval the administration has asked Congress for s300 million in balance payments assistance for and Carter asked his visitor about the economic situation in that not very scares asked How the political situation soars Carter said his sister has a Home in por ivc never been there but she really loves the president sources said they were Uncertain which of Carters Sisters he was referring to but thai it probably is Huth in addition to its own prospective contribution to Portugal financially strapped the Carter administration is encouraging other wealthy nations to con tribute As the Long Range target is billion from Western countries and the International monetary after the photo taking in the Oval the two leaders conferred in the Cabinet room for about 45 several senior administration officials attended the including National Security adviser Zbigniew and Secretary of state Cyrus Vance to visit Iran Washington up Secretary of state Cyrus Vance will visit Spain and Iran after next months economic Summit meet ing in the stale department an comes in for a new science you know and i know where the Money is going to he he estimated that Between million and million is needed to keep the schools going and to build new schools to replace some now in buildings never meant to be schools in the first after making the 1978 school budget re cardinals said the comptroller directed that 153 personnel be the reduction includes 65 persons above the level of principal and 98 persons at the level of principal and we have to remove them from the Rolls by the end of Cardinale and he added this will give me about million More that i can release to the european director for these unfunded he said he was very much aware of the unfunded requirements repairs and maintenance in the european and that dons denial of his request has forced him to re program some of the funds he docs he pointed out thai the comptroller would be Able to release million if the teacher pay supplement is approved by and he said he could get additional funds from canal zone schools and soft spots in his own accounts in Washington that would make it possible to re lease Between million and i think Robert we Tecl and i agree that we cant continue just painting and putting band aids on some of our school 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