European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 26, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday november 26, 1990 the stars and stripes a a a Page 9 education Odds expects to avoid teacher layoffs by Jimi Jones education writer Wiesbaden Germany teachers in military or hols in Germany need not worry about dreaded a a refs at least not for the coming school year. A a we do not anticipate a reduction in Force in nudds within Germany a said Hayden Horne jr., personnel officer for the Germany Region. In the school systems Atlantic and Mediterranean a is officials also want to avoid a reduction in Force official s Are a doing our level Best to try to keep from having any Job cuts said Emil Wirth Mediterranean personnel officer. Student enrolments Are being monitored m All regions and adjustments in the number of teachers will be based on those figures. If schools close officials in the department of defense dependents schools expect to place the affected teachers at other schools in their current districts or within the Region Horne said. But he could not say which schools or How Many would close. The overseas education association estimates that �?o150 teachers in Germany May have to relocate in the first round of draw Downs sea spokeswoman Jan be Pelej Assaid. In Light of the changes in Europe the school system could experience a shortage of teachers for the next school year Horne said. A we Are actively recruiting for next school year a Horne said. A a in a concerned that we May have a recruiting shortfall. We May not be Able to get enough teachers until everything settles  Horne said the Germany Region employs from 800 to 1,000 new teachers per school year with about 40 percent of those local hires. He said he fears the decline in new arrivals and the increase in departing family members will soon exhaust the local Supply Pool. With constant reports of troops returning to the United states educators no longer Are willing to leave a school District in the states and venture overseas Home said. While Horne ponders this future concern Ulm High school principal Gordon Gartner is working on an immediate problem he expects the school to close at the end of the school year. At Raf Greenham common High school in England the personnel director for the Atlantic Region is already faced with the problem that Gartner is anticipating. The High school is definitely being closed and the elementary school will be losing a chunk of pupils. Under the intermediate Range nuclear forces treaty with the soviet Union the 501st tac missile Wing at Greenham common must be inactivated by next May 31. Jim Singleton the regions personnel chief said he expects to find placements within the Region for a teachers that will be affected by the closure of Greenham common High school and the drastic reduction in the elementary  Singleton was at Raf Greenham common recently to Complete an agreement with the sea on the placement of teachers affected by the draw Down. About 48 teachers Are on staff at the base schools but Singleton was unable to say How Many would stay at Greenham common. Bearing in mind the teachers preferences the Region will first try to place them within the United kingdom and then in other schools within the Region. The Region closed two elementary schools last year at Raf Wethersfield and Raf Fairford England. For the most part it was Able to place the 25 to 30 affected teachers within the Atlantic Region. Those not placed within the Region entered the Dodds Transfer program and were placed in Dodds schools elsewhere Singleton said. The Mediterranean Region will close two schools this year in Comiso Italy and Athens Greece personnel officer Wirth said. A a we re hoping we can place everyone without anybody being affected by a if a Wirth said. A we wont know until probably january whether Well be totally effective or  the Region also expects a number of retirements this month. A right now our plan is to accommodate everyone who will be surplus this year through another assignment in the Region or Early identification to Dodds for worldwide placement consideration a Wirth said. Substantial changes in faculty Are expected at Athens this semester Wirth said. Job offers at other schools in the Region will be identified soon for faculty members who will not be needed for the second semester. The elementary and High schools at Torr Jon a also will be closing. The base near Madrid Spain is the Home of the 401st tac fighter Wing and is targeted to close by 1992. Wirth said officials Are still unsure of timing. A we know its going to happen a he said. A we done to know How rapid it will be and what the magnitude of it will  although enrolment has declined slightly the Region wont have a a Halfway decent guess until about March on the picture at Torrejon. A Large number of the approximately 75 teachers there Are temporaries Wirth said. In Germany Wei Brincken a also is preparing to close. We Brucken High school principal Sandra Matthys said she expects a significantly smaller enrolment next year at the school which serves both army and air Force children. With the air base closed enrolment will be about 500 for the next school year she said. And in All probability Matthys will see a reduction in her 53 staff slots. The reductions will take place a in a variety of ways a she said. A i done to anticipate pushing anybody out of the door but there will be a  Matthys said we Brucken elementary school will remain open and Kreuzberg elementary basically an army Community plans to stay open. She said that once the decision is made on who will have the housing area currently occupied by the air Force she May revise her plan for next year. A air Force people who have seniors have been targeted and will not leave until after june 10 so students can participate in graduation a Matthys said. Horne said the Germany Region also is thinking ahead. A three or four years Down the Road when we know How Many we need wed like to have a system to identify employment opportunities in stateside school by tems a she said. Contributing to this report Amy Geiszler Jones at Raf Greenham common 2 educators win posts in chapter 135 Heidelberg Germany a two administrators in the military schools Germany Region have been elected officers of chapter 135, overseas association of dependents school administrators. Charles Ragland principal at Sermersheim was selected As president elect of the worldwide organization of department of defense school administrators. Ragland a 14-year Veteran of department of defense dependents schools from new Mexico will assume his duties As president in August 1991, when the current term expires. Lee Kirsch assistant principal at Heidelberg Middle school is president of the chapter. Frank Roehl was elected vice president for the Germany Region and assumed his duties aug. 1. The Deputy principal of Mannheim elementary school has been in the overseas school system for 18 years As a teacher and administrator. Teachers Union files grievances against Dodds Mediterranean by Jimi Jones education writer a teachers Union has filed charges of unfair labor practices against Dodds Mediterranean  overseas federation of teachers filed the charges with the Federal labor relations authority after regional officials refused to negotiate a new collective bargaining agreement requested by the department of defense dependents schools. The new contract would replace the More than 6-year-old agreement and would affect teachers in Italy Spain Portugal Greece Turkey and Bahrain. The authority has not ruled on the unions action. The charges name William Sullens the regions chief of the management employee relations Branch. The Region a is again engaging in strange tactics a Oft spokesman Ernie Lehmann said. A they have yet to explain How they plan to negotiate a contract when they walk away from the table. They Are the ones who told us that they cannot live with the present  Sullens said the Region Terai rated the negotiations because the Union was a Sun prepared to Exchange a full set of proposals in order to proceed As required by the ground  ground rules Are a detailed agreement of How negotiations Are to proceed. Dodds said the Union came to the table with no written negotiating proposals for More than 30 percent of the articles under negotiation. Both parties had agreed to begin negotiations in september in Verona Italy the site of the unions Headquarters. The Union said it had requested information from Dodds on 11 of 35 proposals about a month before negotiations were to begin. Lehmann said the Union told Dodds that without the requested information the Union would be at a severe disadvantage in preparing proposals on such areas As employee rights health safety and working conditions. But the Union said it was a ready willing and Abler to negotiate the other 24 articles. Sullens said the Union had asked for a Large amount of information under the Federal labor relations act some of which the Federal authority later found Dodds was not obliged to give. Sullens said management offered the Union an extra Day to prepare the remaining proposals which he Felt they could have a knocked out in four  the Region immediately called for arbitration against Oft for its violation of the ground rules and failure to negotiate in Good Faith he said. Both parties agreed on Susan Mackenzie of new York As the arbitrator. Issues before Mackenzie Are whether Dodds violated authority regulations when it refused to provide data the Union thought necessary to Complete its proposals and whether the Union violated the ground rules when it failed to present a full package of proposals. The Union has asked that Dodds be directed to return to the table. It also has said that in the interest of improved labor management relations both sides would be Best served if the new director of the Region a expected to be selected by december a had a say on management a proposals. The Union has asked that the parties begin in Early february to prepare for negotiations with the first round of talks to Start in mid february. Mackenzie has yet to Issue a  los Angeles not students Are merging Art and activism at the University of California Campus there a Black acting group has staged a protest performance to dramatize what it sees As the schools culturally lopsided arts curriculum. Instead of picketing to criticize a Lack of ethnic theater classes two students from a clan a school of theater film and television staged a mock funeral procession for Black Radical Malcolm x and civil rights Leader Martin Luther King or. The event held recently at a Campus sculpture Garden was one of several played mostly by members of Diaspora a group of 20 Black students from Urcla s theater department. The students formed a group last fall to draw attention to what they considered inequities in their department. Their performances depicted milestones in Black history including life in Africa before the slave Trade and scenes from plays written by Blacks. Diaspora maintains that a Well rounded education in the arts is impossible without offering More american theater classes about minorities and without requiring students to take More ethnic arts classes said Guy Leemhuis a senior from los Angeles