European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 3, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 the stars and stripes 1981 was never put info effect Doe drops bilingual class proposal Washington a the depart mint of education is discarding the heavily criticized bilingual education rules proposed by the Carter education Secretary Bell announced the rules would have forced the nations schools to teach children who Arent native speakers of English in both their native Lan Guage and in Congress already had put a freeze on the proposed by Bells Shir Ley last and they never went into but they ignited an Avalanche of criticism from school boards and Many education who claimed that for the first time the Federal government was trying to Tell school districts How and what to the policies Are Bur unworkable and incredibly the rules Are fiercely opposed by supported by Bell said in a he called the rules an intrusion on state and local nothing in the Law or the Constitution anoints the department of education to be National school National school superintendent or National school i would like to use this symbolic of Many of the ills that have plagued the Federal government and this fledgling department to Telegraph a message of change to the american Bell told reporters he had proposed with drawing the rules a week ago to president Reagan and he was in full support of the education department estimated that enforcing the rules to teach children writing and other primary subjects in two languages could Cost school districts from million to million a Bell said that until his staff can rewrite the rules to make them More the department will revert to guidelines issued in those never put into were a response to the 1974 supreme court decision that held schools must instruct Stu the High did not specify How they should be the Carter administration rules stip soaring costs of student loan program Spur Federal efforts to apply brakes Washington a worried fed eral officials Are trying to apply the brakes to the guaranteed student loan whose costs have soared at an alarming rate in the past four years and Are expected to exceed billion this As recently As the government was spending million to subsidize Lowin Loans for 1 million College but that was before interest rates the government now is paying a record 18 percent interest to state agencies and nonprofit lenders to make the and demand for the Loans exploded after Congress lifted a family income Cap in 1978 and made the subsidized Loans available to All regardless of the department of education reports that some million students borrowed billion last year in 7 percent the government pays All the interest while they attend school the former dents pay 7 percent and the government pays the Congress last year raised the interest rate on new Loans to 9 but also made parents eligible to borrow for the first time at 9 parents must begin paying interest while their child is in How the education Agency expects million students and million parents to borrow billion next unless the interest subsidies Are that will Cost the government billion More than it costs to give outright Basic educational Opportunity Grants averaging apiece to million the program has come under a bipartisan barrage of the Reagan administration has signalled its intention to Cut Back on the loan but has not revealed another Factor was that the government has sponsored the growth of state agencies As direct lenders under the the education Agency says that despite the attractive less than 25 percent of All eligible students now Are taking out the which can Range up to a year for undergraduates and for graduate the loan program dates Back to through last almost 15 million Loans had been made for a total of More than about 52 percent Are still the rest have been paid Back by the Borrower or by the government due to student the default rate is about plated that instruction in two languages be the Norm for classes of limited speakers of and that any variance must get special the proposal infuriated educators using intensive in or immersion to teach youngsters but Bell said schools should not have to get special permission for such it was like Henry Ford used to say about his Model you can have any color you want As Long As it is because that was the Only color he Bell who was commissioner of Edu cation when the guidelines were said school districts should not interpret his action to mean that the Reagan administration will allow Sloppy or Loose enforcement of civil rights there is no quicker Way to kill a civil rights Law than to enforce it with heavy handed misdirection and i am sworn to up hold the not to kill he no school administrator should misread this action As an invitation to discriminate against children who face language bar he the education department estimated last summer that More than million children in America speak Little or no in seventy percent Are but it said Only million Are doing so poorly with the language that they would have qualified for bilingual education under the 1975 cites ignominious record Memphis police director wants rapists castrated a police director Winslow whose City had More rapes per capita than any major City last says he believes rapists should be former mayor Addonizio Dies red up former Newark mayor Hugh a major figure in new Jersey politics for More than two died monday morning at Riv review he was a spokeswoman for the Hospital said Addonizio wus pronounced dead on arrival at the cause of his death was not a served As mayor of Newark from 1962 to in he was convicted of 63 counts of conspiracy and extorting payoffs from contractors doing business with the he ran for re election while under indictment in 1969 and lost to Newark current Kenneth he went to prison in 1972 and spent 62 months in if maybe we can castrate rapists one or two times that crime would go Down the in convinced of Chapman said Chapmans remarks came during an anti crime meeting sponsored by a Community association at Lindsay memorial presbyterian Chapman also said he fully supported the states death penalty Law for murderers and attacked the trivia of supreme court Rul Ings that require suspects to be told their rights or that prevents use in court of Evi Dence obtained illegally by a member of president Rea Gans 20member National advisory task Force on Law Drew applause from Many of the 150 people attending the meeting with his advocacy of castration of rapists and the death penalty for there were 788 rapes reported last year in a City of nothing really happens to the idea is you can get away with Chapman of All crimes this one affects me the that Why in so Adamant about bizarre ideas concerning Tim vice president of the Community group that sponsored the meet said he was very pleased with Chap mans a letter Charles owner of a new York Frank Sinatra generosity and his City autograph holds a letter writ after critics charges linked ten by president Reagan during last Sinatra to organized the years in two pages of hand to Thomas Neville of Reagan defends entertainer was auctioned for up
