European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 27, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday september 27, 1985 the stars and stripes Page 7 putting the emphasis Back on English bilingual education gone astray Bennett says Washington a Secretary of education Wil Liam j. Bennett Labelling the government s bilingual Edu cation program a failure says he will press for changes to allow More schools to offer intensive English classes in Stead of instructing in students native languages. Bennett said it will be up to school districts to decide what method works Best. He made it Clear that he feels the schools have been devoting too much time and too Many resources to teaching in Spanish and other foreign languages. Bennett announced the policy shift in a speech prepared for delivery thursday in new York City before inc association for a better new York. His office released the text in Advance and top Educa Tion department officials were to hold a news conference in Washington to elaborate on the changes. Bennett charged that after sound beginnings in the civil rights act of 1964 and the elementary and secon Dary education act of 1965, the Federal policies governing bilingual education went astray. Too Many children have failed to become fluent in  the government has tunnelled $1.7 billion in bilingual education Aid to school districts since 1968. Federal civil rights officials in the 1970s began pressuring school districts to teach limited English speaking Stu dents in their native tongues and until 1984 forbade schools from using the funds for classes that Only relied on intensive English instruction. After 17 years of Federal involvement and after $1.7 billion of Federal funding we have no evidence that the children whom we sought to help that the children who deserve our help have benefited Bennett said. He said the administration would not give up on the Promise of equal educational Opportunity for these Chil Dren but it also will not continue Down the same failed path. And throw Good Money after  he said he would make regulatory and administrative changes to allow greater flexibility for local school Dis  and make sure that his civil rights Agency docs not impose a particular method of  and he said he will explore with Congress the possibility of re moving the 4 percent Cap on alternative instructional  Congress in renewing the bilingual education act last year specified that no More than 4 percent of the $139 billion a year in Aid could be used for alternative methods such As intensive English instruction. The rest must go to districts that teach children in their native languages As Well As English. President Reagan told a teachers convention in july 1983 that bilingual program should serve As a Bridge to full participation in the american mainstream. They should never segregate non English speaking students in a Way that will make it harder not easier for them to succeed in  Bennett said our movement away from exclusive Reli Ance on one method and our endorsement of local flexibility should not be mistaken for a return to the old Days of sink or  Pride in one s heritage is natural and commendable he said but the government s responsibility is to help ensure that local schools succeed in teaching non English speaking students  a sense of cultural Pride cannot come at the Price of proficiency in English our common language " he said. Simply put the better your English the More you  despite gains for hispanic students reported this week on the Scholastic aptitude test almost half of All h j panic High school students. Drop out before graduation Bennett said. We should not be bashful about proclaiming fluency in this language As our educational goal and we should not be timid in reforming our policies so As to reach it he said. A 1981 study by two education department analysts concluded the Case for the effectiveness of transitional bilingual education is so weak that exclusive Reliance on this instruction method is clearly not  a year earlier Shirley m. Hufstedler the Carter administration s Secretary of education had proposed Man dating transitional bilingual classes in districts with cer Tain numbers of limited English speakers. Her successor . Bell revoked those rules two weeks after president Reagan look office. Freed murderer rapist Back in jail in California san Jose Calif. A convicted murderer rapist William Archie Fain the Only California prisoner Ever denied parole because of Public protest was Back behind bars after two men told police they caught him peeping into a bedroom window. Fain was booked for investigation of peeping and prowling after his arrest late tuesday said sgt. Bop Burroughs. A Man spotted Fain. 40, pecking into a neighbor s bedroom window. Burroughs said. The Man called the neighbor and to Gether they held Fain until police arrived. Fain a roofer who lives in nearby Campbell was imprisoned for nearly 16 years for the june 1967 Shotgun slaying of High school student Mark Ulrich 17, whose car he stopped on a Rural Road near the stanislaus county Community of Oakdale. Fain also was convicted of raping two other students in the car and a third  was sentenced to be executed but escaped death when an appeals court rejected the sentence because of an error in jury selection. He later became a Model prisoner and prison officials said he had had a religious  first was granted parole in 1976. But the state Board of prison terms react ing in part to a protest Campaign mounted by Clinch s parents withdrew the Date say ing Fain should be kept in prison longer. He then got a january 1982 parole Date but that also was withdrawn on the advice of then attorney general George Dukmejian who cited extraordinary Public out cry that included petitions Wilh 62,500 signatures demanding Fain be kept behind bars. That move was later overturned by the courts. But two Days before Fain s new parole Date in april 1983, Dukmejian now governor stepped into the Case directly Cit ing an obscure state Law allowing the Gover nor to revoke the parole of a released Pris Oner. That ruling was overturned by a Succes Sion of courts and Fain finally was released in the predawn hours of oct. 4, 1983. Fain has completed his parole from the murder sentence and cannot be charged with parole violation said William Elliott executive officer of the Board of prison terms. Sally Goehring a Cousin of Ulrich and one of the leaders of the fight to keep Fain in jail said his new arrest did t Surprise her. I was just Happy he did t Hurt any body said Goehring who lives in Oakdale. I think it s a classic example of the parole Board in this state not paying at Tention she said of the decision to free Fain. Plane crash kills 2 the wreckage of a single engine plane that crash landed on route 95 in War Wick r.i., lies up traffic As officials cordon off the area. The two occupants in he plane which was Enro Ute from Worcester mass., to Cape cod were killed in the sunday crash. Motorists on the Highway escaped injury. More names going on Vietnam memorial Tulsa okla. A a father who fought a decision that kept his son s name off the Vietnam veterans memorial has succeeded in having at least 330 names added to the Monument. The names of 1st it. Larry Broadhead and about 330 other military personnel who died outside the War zone will be added to the a shaped Monument by memorial Day 1986, said sen. Don Nickles a okla. Leo Broadhead a retired air Force lieu tenant colonel appeared with Nickles at a wednesday news conference. Broadhead s 25-year-old son a b-52 co Pilot died along with five other crewmen May 10, 1969, when their plane crashed into the sea shortly after Takeoff from Guam in route to a bombing run Over Vietnam. He gave the ultimate and 1 feel that his name deserves to be on there Broadhead said. He was on his 88th combat  Broadhead said he was surprised to learn his son s name was not among the More than 58,000 inscribed on the memorial in Washington when it was unveiled in 1982. Defense department officials said the name of Broadhead and others were not included on the memorial because they died outside the official combat zone. Broadhead went to Oklahoma Congress men in november seeking their help in having his son s name added to the memorial. Nickles said the defense department agreed to broaden the criteria to include deaths occurring in connection with a mis Sion within the defined combat  John Wheeler chairman of the Board of the Vietnam veterans memorial fund said his group has received a nearly Complete list of casualties left off the memorial. He said Pentagon officials did a second hard thorough look at All their data to find As Many cases like the Broadhead Case. So that when we did go about adding names we would know we had found All of the  Wheeler said there would be Between 330 and 350 names added to the memorial which was turned Over to the . Govern ment. Wheeler said Nickles and sen. David Boren d-okla., have agreed to Contact Pri vate sources to help raise the $60,000 to $80,000 required to have the names engraved. Most of the names can be included in chronological order on the Black Granite panels because the original design included space for additional names Wheeler said