European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 17, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday May 17, iea6 the stars and stripes Page 8 j29.2 $28.9 ,7 7.7 starting salaries 1986 College graduates in thousand rat of dollars electrical engineering Mercian cd engineering chemical engineering .-., computer Selene a i Iii a  engineering pm engineeringij24.b i tit a financial adminis Rallon accounting. / chemistry x ,. Business Admani Stallon marketing and sales male magics. Social science communications. Agit Alture Moertl  Arnini Starlion . Hotel  manage Manl Liberal arts i $17.4 natural resources. Refema economics 0390 tits go Floc sound Mdian state a Minot of fungo Titan news Roforth panel Calls for restructuring of education system in  Coronado Calif. A unless americans Are willing to pay Tor a drastic reorganization of Public education they will have to reconcile than elves to a massive decline in our Standard of living a Blue ribbon panel says. Hundreds of educators  gathered Friday to discus the Radical blueprint unveiled thursday by Trie Carnegie corp i task Force on teaching As a profession which includes the Heads of Bah National teachers unions. The chairman of the task Force Lewis m. Branscomb said in an interview Friday morning on Abc to s today show the recommendations Are aimed at training our Young people How to be flexible How to be creative to to hint Onither  americans Are going to have to think for a living if they want to compete with Well educated hard working asians and other people around the world Branscomb added. The report signed by All 14 panel members Calls for abolishing under graduate education degrees creating a Board to certify top teachers and pegging teachers salaries in part to their students performance. It demands More Power and autonomy for teachers and even suggests that some schools should do away with principals and be run instead by a committee of Lead teachers earning salaries of $65,500 a year or  78-Page report a nation prepared teachers for the 21st Century said bolstering the profession is lie key to turning factory like Public schools into places where children will team la think for themselves. To Avert a massive decline in our Standard of living and the growth of a permanent underclass it said our schools most Grad uate the vast majority of their students with achievement Levels Long thought possible for Only the privileged  the Carnegie corp. Announced Friday it is giving Stanford University $317,000 to develop ways la measure teachers skills for the proposed National certification Board. Stanford education researcher Lee Shulman said teacher competency Lesti now used in most states arc a  Branscomb in ism chief scientist and vice president said that in Exchange for greater autonomy local teachers must be prepared to accept greater accountability if students fail to learn. The panel called for establishing a new pecking order within the profession with Lead teachers working year round advanced certificate holders earning 142,000 for 10 months work and certified teachers the majority earning 135,500 for 10 months. The average teacher now earns around 125,000. The panel said teachers pay should be pegged to productivity a determined in part by students performance. But it said the existing ways of measuring students Progress Are not satisfactory. On the Call for letting teachers run schools Scott Thomson executive director of the National association of secondary school principals said i Don t feel threatened by it. Nothing is Ever unwell by  Mary Hatwood Futrell the president of the 1.8 million member National education association signed the report but added a list of reservations that challenged Many of its main planks. She complained that the Lead teacher plan suggests that some teachers Are More equal than  she also objected to recommendations to increase parents choices among Public schools subjecting schools to the pressures of Market Competition. We did t feel we could support the report 100 percent she said. But she said in contained a lot of Good things. The most revolutionary part is that they re going to give teachers  the task Force said More minorities must be attracted into teach ing saying we cannot tolerate a future in which both White and teacher demand in thousands of projected teaching jobs 1501 125 100 75 50 25 elementary 1980 82 84 86 88 90 93 Chicago Tribune graphic source National Center or education statistics minority children Are confronted with almost exclusively White authority figures in the  it also said teachers work in on environment suffused with bureaucracy. Many of the Best people now staffing our schools. Are immensely frustrated. They Sec the bureaucratic Structure within which they work becoming even More rigid and the opportunities far exercising professional judgment becoming even More  Secretary of education William j. Bennett in a Telephone interview said he was very pleased so Many of the recommendations move in the directions we be been urging Merit pay. High standards parental Choice Liberal arts for prospective  but he said there s a missing person in this report the principal. When a Parent comes to school she does not want to Seea  Bennett s predecessor , Bell called it a Brilliant  Albert Shanker who As president of the american federation of teachers issued the first calf for a National teacher certification Board in january 1985, said the report heralds a new Era in the nation s quest for educational excellence and  25 teachers hold protest Over Dodds budget cuts by Mary Hladky education writer Wiesbaden about 25 teachers picketed the department of defense dependents schools Headquarters in Germany Friday to protest budget cult. The protest at Lindsey As was organized by the Over seas education association which represents about 4,600 teachers in Dodds Dennany. Teacher manned the picket Lino to show Dodds director Beth Stephen and Dodds Dennany director Joe Blackstead their displeasure about cutbacks totalling about h5 million this school year. The cuts which amount to More than 10 percent of the Dodds budget were made to meet requirements of the Tramm Rudman anti deficit Law and to cover higher Cost due to the decline in the strength of the Dollar Over seas. The 1986-87 school year will Start on sept. S about two weeks later than usual in one of several moves to slow spending at the end of the current fiscal year. In addition school officials have pm Back on Clra Curn Cular activities outdoor education programs supplies teacher training and Transfer programs i basically support he idea of Tramm Rudman but we Are getting almost an 11 percent Cut said Dennis William a fifth Grade teacher at bad Kreuz Nach elementary school. Gramm rude Nan is 4.3 percent. I m perfectly willing to take my Medicine along with everyone else but i Don t think 11 percent is reasonable. These cuts Are a devastating blow to morale that is already  Jan Pepelnjak a first Grade teacher at Atterberry elementary in Frankfurt said the cult Are harming the Quality of education. I m concerned about the tact Gramm Rudman 1 Cut Ting away at our educational programs overseas the Aid. Military children deserve better than adequate Educa Tion. That is the Best they will get next  teachers representing about 15 schools in Dodds Dennany carried signs saying education is our no. 1 defense a Strong America needs Strong schools and full funding for our  teachers Are upset trial Stephens did not announce an plans to try to replenish Dodds coffers during her recent trip to Aurorie said Mike Mauer an sea attorney who helped organize the protest. Mauer said. We Spect her to go to Dod and go to Congress and say we need More Money to fund an Educa. Lion system  s taking the amount of Money Given to her As a Given while other government agencies Are scrambling for  toured schools and talked with regional officials in the Atlantic Mediterranean and Germany regions or about three weeks. She left shortly after attending amay  conference held by the european Congress of american parents teachers and students in Hausen. Germany. Backs cad said he and Stephen know teachers Are unhappy about the budget cuts. Or. Stephens knows already Blackstead said everybody is unhappy that cuts have to be  Stephens also has tried to get More Money for the school system tic said. I think she has tried hard Blickstead said. She has talked to commanders and solicited their reports and i certain the has talked to everyone in the Pentagon and Dod to get what she possibly could the Friday action is the second teacher protest this month. On May 2, about 290 teachers and members of the sea Parent organization the National education association picketed he White House in Washington