European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 25, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday. August 25, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 5 governors urge education Reform Call for better facilities higher standards by David s. Broder the Washington Post Hilton head . The nation governors have launched what they called a second wave of education re form with a report urging National Stan Dards for leaching year round use of schools greater Par Mai Choice among Public schools and aggressive pre school outreach programs to poor children. These and other recommendations were included in a report released her saturday on the eve of the governors annual meeting with a pledge thai slates will use it As a Benchmark to measure i hair own Progress in education Reform for the next five years. Tennessee boy. Lamar Alexander re publican is chairman of the National governors association Nga and the task Force that produced the report titled time for  he said the governors Are in this for the Long  education is the major focus of the three Day meeting thai started sunday. Alexander is leaving office this year Buthis successor As chairman of Nga a Kansas gov. Bill Clinton Democrat was co chairman of the education report and has pledged to continue the initiative. The governors put no Price lag on the ambitious program which Calls for higher teacher salaries rehabilitation of run Down education facilities and better use of computers video discs and other technology in the schools. Bui Alexander said we know it takes  he said thai slates have been Able to accelerate their education spending in the Pas three Yean and will continue to do so because we have found railing new teaching proposed reforms National to nectar  Board to Dave top Standard and ow866 06ttlltctt 00. Advanced certification Tor teachers Wax seek h and meet standards they wow sup visa other teachers wat ate Curr Cua receive a flow pay. Undergraduate planning to become to ctn we a major in academic us sect Rathar than education naw Teachot to in internship Ond residency and but evaluated by experienced teachers. Higher pay for teachers in Start Supply such As in science malt special education. Tad was not principals to be instructional leaders of schools. Full Lubon arts and other Oola graduates to be encouraged to become teachers without tra Dhonal Isachor training but experienced teachers cd Sago Trabun of Raper Sou Tom pm a forum on education end the Economy and american fdr9on of to twi funds for better schools is easier than raising it for More of the same asked if it would Lake Federal assist Ancelo carry out the recommendations Alexander said. Washington s pot is full and basically they re broke. We assume it s our responsibility and we re pre pared 10 do most of it on our  a major theme of the report is the suggestion that state governments should give teachers greater Freedom in running schools and designing curricula in return for teachers accepting greater accountability for educational results. As Alexander put it the governors Are ready for some old fashioned  la regulate less if schools and school districts will produce better  he said we re not ready to bargain away standards but we understand that excellence cannot be imposed from a  the report s key Section on teaching drafted by new Jersey gov. Thomas a Kean Republican endorsed the creation Ofa National Board of professional teacher standards a proposal advanced earlier this year by the Carnegie forum on education and the Economy. The report also called for the overhaul of teacher training Kean said thai in cases of sys Lem wide failure by local school districts to meet education achievement Stan Dards Stales should be ready to inter Vene and take Over the schools until the situation is remedied. But on the crucial Issue of performance pay for teachers and rewards for successful schools he conceded thai the question of How to align teacher incentives to student performance is much de bated but not yet answered in a Way policy makers can  Montana gov. Ted Schwinden Democrat estimated the Cost of rehabilitating existing education properties at $25 billion. In urging year round school sched Ules and broader Community use of school facilities he said it makes no sense to keep closed half a year the school buildings in which America has invested a Quarter trillion  a Section written by Colorado gov. Rich Ard d. Lamm Democrat said experimenting a few slates and districts permitting Par ent to select the Public school their a wild attends show that students achieve More parents arc More satisfied and educators feel More like professionals who have been selected by their clients the governors report is part of a coordinated push coming from major business leaders and political figures to persuade Bot the Public and the education establishment that fundamental changes must be made in the american school system. Alexander overcame initial opposition from the Tennessee education association to his master teacher program. He quote Texas financier h. Ross Perot s comment about Utt school Reform he spearheaded in that state it was the hardest meanest bloodiest thing i be Ever been in Alexander said the Spur to governors More than anything. Is the threat to the jobs of the people who elect us the concern thai americans May be outstripped educationally by overseas competitors. What we see when we go abroad he said arc children who learn More languages and go to school More Day than our children. . Eighth graders math skills rank ninth among 12 major Industrial countries of the  aids victim sentenced to electronic House arrest Dallas a a judge has or dered an aids victim convicted of Drunken driving to be placed under a form of House arrest with his move ments monitored electronically in Stead of serving a five year prison term. A Dallas homosexual Leader hailed the judge s action As a compassionate punishment since five years in jail could be the equivalent of life in Pris on for someone with acquired immune deficiency syndrome. The unusual sentence known As Community incapacitation is the finl court ordered use in Texas of a program administered by a National organization that advocates alternatives to prison. The Man pleaded guilty Friday to Drunken driving and has two previous Dpi convictions. He and his attorney asked state District judge Jack Hampton to consider the alternative sentence instead of a prison term. This is just not an appropriate Case for Penitentiary time Hampton  could have sent him to the pen and i suppose they d find some place for him. But they presented this alternative and i thought it was a Good  the Man who was not identified in a Story in the Dallas times Herald is a30-year-old unemployed chef who lives in suburban grand Prairie. Peace March organizer files bankruptcy petition he discovered 16 months ago he had aids which destroys the body s ability to fight disease. The aids victim told the times Herald he was elated with the judge s decision. I feel very fortunate he said. Wendy Johnston Grinter assistant director of the Dallas office of Ibena tonal Center on institution and alternatives said the program has worked successfully in other Stales including Florida Illinois and new mex Ico. Bill Nelson president of the Dallas Gay Alliance praised the judge s action. Just because a Man has aids does t mean he should t be responsible for his actions. He should have to pay Foi has i for his crime. But i think the judge picked a very creative and effective Way of dealing with it Nelson  the program the offender will be monitored by an electronic tracking device attached to his ankle. The device emits a signal that his specially equipped Telephone transmits to a computer at the Pncia office letting officials know whenever he is More than 150 feet from his Telephone. If he gets a Job he will be allowed to travel to and trom work but must re port regularly to a probation officer and attend alcohol rehabilitation  attack the body s immune system leaving victims susceptible to a wide variety of infections and can cers. It is most often transmitted through sexual Contact. Los Angeles a the Man who started the great peace March for nuclear disarmament has petitioned for liquidation of assets under Federal bankruptcy Law listing More than $5 million in debts. A hearing was scheduled Tor sept. 2 on the chapter 7 petition by David , a political consultant and Organ Izer. The debts include unpaid Bill for goods and services unpaid staff salaries and personal Loans taken out to finance the March from California to washing ton d.c., Mixner s petition said. Pro peace the March s umbrella group plans to file for Protection under bankruptcy Law later this month mix Ner s attorney Jean Ber Miowitz said thursday pro peace s filing will list the same j5 million in debts she said. She said the petitions were being filed so there will be no question that the debts will be paid. About 1,200 marchers set out fro los Angele on March i. Pro peace col lapsed March 14 and pulled out while the March was in the Mojave desert 100 Miles from its Start. The marchers reorganized into another Effort and about Joo Are continuing on their Way to Washington. On the Day pro peace pulled out Mixner told the marchers save me place at the end of the line. Maybe i can catch up with you in Chicago. I should have cleared up the debts by  the March bearing its message of world peace and nuclear disarmament left Chicago last week still without Mixner. Sands or time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago toe a. Aug. 25, 1946 two touchdown gallops by Wisconsin s Elroy crazy legs Hirsch sparked the College All stars to a 16-0 upset Over the favored la. Rams champions of the National football league before a standing room crowd of 97,580 in Chicago s Soldier Field. 30 years ago . 25,segregation Dis Federal courtala., Butto overturn a separate seating by race. 20 years ago today. Aug. 25, 1966 president Johnson told a news conference thai he would favor an All asian conference to attempt to Settle the Vietnam War. 10 years ago today. Aug. 25, 1976 Jimmy Carter told the american legion in Seattle wash., that he will Grant a Blanket Pardon for draft evaders to end the bitterness of the Vietnam War if he is elected president