European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 15, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wis. Court kills Law paying for poor in private schools thursday november 15, 1990 the stars and stripes a a a Page 7 Madison wis. Asp a a state appeals court cited a Legal technicality tuesday in striking Down a program that allows poor Milwaukee parents to Send their children to private schools with state Money. State officials said the Experiment which began this fall will continue operating for at least another 30 Days while lawyers prepared to Appeal the Case to the Wisconsin supreme court. The 4th District court of appeals ruled the Law establishing the program the nations first to provide state funded vouchers for private school education was unconstitutional because it was passed As part of an omnibus state budget Bill. The Wisconsin Constitution forbids lawmakers from enacting a a local programs in state budget Bills the appeals court said. The court did not address critics arguments that the program was unconstitutional because it undermines Public education by shifting state Money to private schools not directly under the states control. Gov. Tommy g. Thompson a staunch supporter of the school Choice plan said he was dismayed the appeals court did no to address the programs merits. A the program is working. In a sad they did not make a decision on merits just on the process a he said in a Telephone interview from Colorado where he was vacationing. A parental Choice is a Model program that holds great Promise for disadvantaged children in Milwaukee a poorest neighbourhoods. It must be Given an Opportunity to prove its potential a Thompson said. The program approved by the legislature in the Spring was authorized to provide a $2,500 voucher each for As Many As 1,000 students this year. Only about 400 were Able to enrol in about 10 eligible private schools because of space limitations. The Money is deducted from state Aid provided to the Milwaukee Public schools system which has about 97,000 students. The program has been praised by the Bush adminis or for tatlu8 healthy Competition Between Public and private schools. F Ciri 5n>nt?�?T includin8 Wisconsin Stop education offi he Orch Gest teachers Union it filed a lawsuit to n pr0grr,�?T arguing h undermined Public Educa Public sch ods Quot maj Rity of stud6nts left behind in a judge rejected those arguments in August ruling the Choice program served a legitimate Public purpose. He appeals court while not addressing the judges decision ruled the program was unconstitutional be cause lawmakers erred by including the Law in the Bud nation 1 treating it As a separate piece of legis the ruling implies that lawmakers can rewrite the Law and Salvage the program. Senate majority Leader Dave Helbach said such an Effort would be undertaken when lawmakers reconvene in january. Critics hailed tuesdays decision As a Victory. We contended All along that the plan should have been debated on its merits and not smuggled into the said Richard Collins president of the to Ulk member Wisconsin education association the state s largest teachers Union. State schools superintendent Herbert Grover has argued that the program wrongly diverts funds from Public education and undermines state efforts to ensure that educational standards were being met in the private schools. Grover was out of state tuesday but his executive assistant Roger Sundby said the department of Public instruction considered the ruling a Victory. Attorney Clint Bolick who represents five families whose children Are enrolled in the program and have opposed the lawsuit said the appeals court a missed the Forest for the  Bolick said the program was legitimate and was properly limited As an Experiment in Milwaukee because a it has problems that other cities done to have in seeking to provide education for disadvantaged youth. Grow in Model Wight Seville pa., second grader Keit Handra Lenker will have to grow a bit to fill out the spacesuit she tried out with the help of Lisa Mcleod a Nasa aerospace education specialist. Agency representatives visited her school tuesday As part of a program to interest youngsters in the space program. Farmers sell 5<f bread to stress sliced income Bismarck . Apr a Nickel will get you a loaf of bread this week in North Dakota where Farmers Are demonstrating against wheat prices they say Are forcing them out of business. Members of North Dakota a Farmers Union Are Selling 5-cent loaves in every county usually outside the courthouse where farm foreclosures take place. Some customers Are needy and come to buy bargain bread. But most just want to show they support the Farmers. A it appears the crisis in agriculture is getting to be a pretty severe problem and As a banker i see More severe problems in the future if they done to get their Point across a said James Helgeson who was among the customers tuesday. Wheat prices have plummeted because of a worldwide glut. A Nickel is roughly the Price Farmers get for the wheat in a h/2-Pound loaf of White bread that Sells for $1 to $1.25 in stores Farmers say. They receive slightly More than $2 per Bushel for that wheat a quake hits . No one injured t,rles.ton�?T a a a a mild earthquake main rated South Carolinas coast causing no j r damage or injuries authorities said. I earthquake which measured about 3.5 on the Ann iroc a a struck at 1022 . And was entered ii o r Miles North of Charleston according to the j a geological Survey in Reston a.  same area was hit by the most destructive state to own t0 Kave hit the Eastern United the d Uahle. Which measured an estimated 7.7 on in. Or scale a killed 60 people destroyed 102 buildup and damaged 8,000 others can or Al a enforcement agencies received Telephone Auak to people who said they Felt tuesdays Earth Dine 1 6 a rep feed damage was a broken water for the army mtg amp act0lt that makes portable Bridges startp.? a re a King upstairs in their chairs when they Ketman Fah Quot go said Glenda Elrod an employee of we 311 said a what was that a then we used that s what caused the pipe to  be Plant employs about 65 people. About $1 less than last year and the lowest Price in nearly five years. To dramatize the problem the Farmers Are Selling store bought loaves by the score. A a we re discovering that there Are some really hungry people in our major cities a said Karl Limvere a Farmers Union spokesman. A it shows the irony that Farmers can to make any Money from their production and yet we have hungry people. In Benson county the Farmers bought 100 loaves from the Rural county a Only bakery and sold them under Gray skies that some called a foreclosure  i think perhaps it should have served As an Eye opener to a lot of people As far As the disparity of prices a said James Wang a states attorney who bought a loaf. Farmers took a blow under the new farm Bill sent to president Bush which cuts $13.6 billion from farm programs. The Farmers Union wants Price guarantees for family Farmers and an increase in the amount Farmers can borrow from the government to  their Bills. Doctors remove steel Rod from 8-year-old s heart Tucson Ariz. Apr surgeons unscrewed a steel Rod from a Brave 8-year-old impaled through the heart in a fall from a roof. Justin Stiner asked for some ice and wanted to play Nintendo on tuesday after waking up from sur Geisy doctors said. A the probably just thinks this is kind of a slight inconvenience m his life a said trauma surgeon or. Michael Esser. The doctors said the Rod went through the right Side of the heart which has about one third the pressure of the left Side. A the would have bled to death if it had been on the left Side Esser said. A a he a one Lucky kid. It just did no to hit any arterial  the 4-foot-Long, i Inch thick threaded bar used to reinforce Concrete was literally unscrewed from the boys neck and Torso monday in a 2vi-hour operation at University medical Center. Eighteen inches of the Rod had penetrated his body. Justin was listed in critical condition. Esser said the heart wounds should heal fully and although the boy s severed jugular vein was tied off that will pose no problems. A Kef t/00 1?. 86 Pould third grader from Sierra s w Lle playing with friends on the roof of a House monday morning. He was suspended two feet off the ground for about 20 minutes Alert the whole time while Param breastbone which pierced him just below the Usta a who was Tak a the 80 Mues from Sierra Vista to Tucson by helicopter neither panicked nor screamed and on arrival a wanted to know if i was o to remove it. He was very cooperative a or. Phillip Richemont said. Richemont said surgeons were stunned to find that not Only had the Rod pierced the heart in two places but also divided the jugular vein. A but yet it did t bleed. Its amazing a Richemont said