European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 27, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday september 27, 1989 the stars and stripes Page 9 education Cavazos to tackle education deficit Washington a the aggressiveness of his answer stunned the Audi ence. Education Secretary Laura Cavazos. Normally one of the most easygoing Mem Bers of president Bush s Cabinet had just been asked if letting parents pick their child s school would Lead to half empty dumb dumb schools. Well. Then Why Don t we just close those dumb dumb  Cava of told report ers gathered fur a breakfast briefing. Shak ing in anger he jabbed the air with his Finger Over the Choice question he d been asked. Such emotion is something educators Hope to see More of from Cava of at the two Day education Summit that ends thurs Day in Charlottsville. A. One reason Cav a of. A College president before becoming education Secretary last year will be the Only educator sure to attend the meeting of Bush and the Nalion governors. In is Cava of see his role As a Burden i Don t think of it As  the 62 year old former professor said in an inter View. There certainly have been certain amounts of pressure in his role preparing for the Summit he said adding this is really the president s Summit. I m just Sim ply a supporter of the president and trying to move ahead his  Cava of pointed out that other Educa tors May indeed attend the Summit. Each governor can bring one aide to the table and the Secretary conjectured Many May bring the Heads of their Edu cation departments. The Summit. Cava of said should create the kind 01 climate that will per Mit education to be examined. The Only Dodds Archive planned by Chuck vinci1 Washington Bureau Washington a group of Arizona educators plans to establish an a chive next month aimed at preserving the history of the military s overseas school system. The Center for excellence in Educa Tion the school of education at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff Ariz.,will House the Archive and is seeking contributions from past and present employees of . Schools overseas Archive director Tom Drysdale said. This is an idea that has been kicking around for some time said Drysdale who served in department of defense dependents schools for 25 years and was director of the system s Atlantic Region when he retired in 1981. I guess i m just the one who decided to do something about  said those supporting the project include Eugene Hughes presi Dent of the University David Williams the director of the Center for excellence in education and John Stromple director of the department of defense de Pendents schools. The overseas Educa Tion association also has agreed to support the  a major component of the american overseas schools Archive will Deal with the system s 27 schools the project also will include information about the 178 state department schools and 492 private . Schools abroad Drysdale said. A letter outlining the project s Dodds component says the origin and problem All of us have is solving that education  although Cava of is praised for misunderstanding of education some educational leaders arc concerned that his conciliatory style which won their sup port after the battering they took from the abrasive outspoken William Bennett May hinder Cava of Frum aggressively pursuing substantive educational pro Grams along with the Money needed to make them work. I Sec this As a beginning Cava of said of the two a gathering. People look at this As the end. We re not going to come out of there with a lot of ideas and direction. We have a Long Way to go to solve this education  Cava of chuckled at the mention of Money a subject that has been conspicuously avoided by virtually All those expected to have a role at the Summit. Repeating a statement often used by administration officials he said. I Don t think we need More Money for  the education deficit is not a fiscal deficit. I see it As a deficiency deficit he said pointing to the $330.5 billion  to be spent on education by All Levels of government this year and the $353 billion projected for next year. That amount of Money. Mean that people out there Are investing a tremendous amount of Money in education and yet when you look at our performance educationally it is not an Issue of dollars. To me it is an Issue of changing the Way we Are doing things  As the nation s top educator. Cava of has been working closely with the White House in planning the Summit provid ing background information and Sug Gesting Agenda items. The Secretary has been praised by educators who credit him with persuading Bush to hold private meetings with Var ious groups prior to the Summit. I certainly have pushed the idea be cause i very much wanted in have this  said Cava of. What we re in ing to do is bring in a Broad consensus and gather ideas irom that. I want to make it very Clear that i m optimistic. The very fact  the pre i Deal has culled this Summit is a tremendous historic  Cava of. The first hispanic named to Cabinet Post has promoted hush s Edu cation initiative diet la. Circulating through Capitol Hill and around the country to spread the Bush position. A key Cava of project is bilingual education. But he has on the most Praise for his student loan default regulations. Which educators say showed the right combination of toughness and under standing of the soaring mull billion Dol Lar default problem. Initially lukewarm to the idea of pain Tal Choice when it comes to a child s school. Cava of has since enthusiastically embraced what has become the Centrepiece of Bush s education initiative. Without a doubt Choice will be Dis cussed at the Summit along with five other topics that Bush and the governors Hope will Lead to National goals on what children should learn. Cava of has described himself As the system s first beneficiary of Choice be cause his father then the Foreman of the huge King ranch near Kings ill Texas. I Jurn Cave is managed to Send his five children to the local Anglo school and not an inferior one for Lii Phi pics. C Ava of g cd up on the . Served in the  for two . At Pivk d col lege in to Xii on the go Bill   a doctorate in physiology from Iowa state University. In 198 1, Cava of moved to i Libock to become president of Texas to vhf univer sity and. In september i9xh. Lien presi debt Reagan tapped him to  Ben Nett As education Secretary. Bush kept Cava Oson. Jennifer ans world writes a Story Dur in a session at guano Italy Klemen Lury school. In the Reading and writing classroom close up project taught he Diane Anderson. Jennifer and her fellow third cruder Are urged to read their stories aloud to the class in an Effort to blend language arts skills. Jennifer is the daughter of Jerry und Kush Ains Ortli evolution of the military school system Are a remarkable human and education Al Success Story that needs to be told and recorded in geographic scope this represents the largest school system on  the letter Stales. In educational history this represents the schooling of two generations of american children under circumstances unique to human history. Graduate students research schors historians and educators both american and foreign will Benefit from a Well or Gani de collection of archives documenting the  experiences and from a comprehensive personnel locator  Drysdale said the group s priority is a personnel file including the names of current retired and deceased employees of All . Schools overseas. Information forms were mailed to school principals and administrators to develop the file. Individuals will then be invited to con tribute the Story of their overseas school experiences and to donate or loan records orders photographs books . The group plans to periodically request additional material. In addition to mate rial from individuals the Archive plans to collect and organize official documents from All overseas schools. More information on the Archive project can be obtained by writing the Cen Ter for excellence in education Northern Arizona University Box 5774, Flagstaff Ariz. 86011