European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 06, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday. January 6. 1991 the stars and stripes a Pago 5education Reform still not up to Grade by tilt Cox news service  though states have m Ade strides in improving their education system san the last live years the nation s schools have made Little Progress toward comprehensive Refon according to a report released Friday by the National governors association. A i can say that there s  Effort. In this country to do something about education a said Colorado gov. Roy Roiner. A a in a also concerned that we re not doing  Romer was co chairman of the fourth and. Last of the associations Progress reports on education. The reports found that a number of states Are spending More time and Money on their schools and demanding More accountability from teach Crisand students. However the governors also found that a Quot. A traditional school a management teaching and curricula  unaltered across most of the country. A demonstration programs have remained just that a new Mexico gov. Gar a Rey Carruthers wrote a and the Best ones often fail to be implemented statewide or a disseminated to other  a a women and minorities Are still Gen orally excluded from administrative jobs. The report called this a a glaring Gap in school leadership. A schools boards a Colorado gov. Roy Romer holds a report by the National governors association on education. While there is some Progress the group says More Reform is needed. Pear unwilling to hired nude and Minon. To candidates at All Levels of adm Istia  the report said Quot and this must . A a late nation has no was to aces Sateh assess the comparative Progress id us  a go Tinoi s commission it tall issues  assessment of student Lneve ment. A year attest an education Summit with pies Lent Bush Quot the Teplit will be incomplete Quot Romet said Quot we done tha a  kind of data a a a in Serce training Tot  is woefully inadequate Quot professional development must become an expected and routine part of the Job not a trill Quot the report said. A school construction and repair m Many areas lags behind demand. California Tor instance has a so billion. Construction backlog even though volts recently approved a Maior Bond program. On the Bright Side education spending., teaching standards and parental moly. Ment Are increasing m most mens Romei a said.,. A. A a at least seven slates now allow students to attend schools outside their Home districts the governors found while research has found that such programs can Lead to better schools Quot Choice is not a  the report  is just one  american airlines i x a eliminate costs Massachusetts mouse seat 7 1o/o of fights tally of . Overseas residents by the new York times Washington a a census Bureau decision to include Federal workers living overseas  final population count will Cost Massachusetts a congressional seat and give the state of Washington another. Massachusetts would have kept  11th seat if Only . Residents had been counted for congressional reapportionment As was the Case with every census except that of 1970, a by. But because Washington state has 9,000 More residents in the military or other Federal agencies overseas it will gain a ninth seat. R ten of the 11 Massachusetts seats Are held by democrats. 77which  Benefit in Washington is not Clear that states new districts will be drawn by a bipartisan commission. The most Likely result of the bureaus 19k9 decision to count overseas personnel is that a Boston area Democrat will be replaced by a newcomer from the fast growing Seattle suburbs when the 103rd Congress convenes in 1993. The Massachusetts congressional districts will be redrawn by the legislature which is controlled by democrats subject. To a veto by gov. William f. Weld a Republican. A. The decision to include Federal workers and their families living overseas was made in August 1989, As Congress considered legislation that would have forced the census Bureau to do so. A Bureau spokesman said Friday that it was a the fair thing to do a adding a a these Are americans overseas on government  7 -. A a Quot Quot. 17a the country s total resident population a announced two weeks ago is 248.7 Mil a lion. A -. A a. A the total population including 922, 100 people living abroad is 249.6 million. A state try state figures including the overseas personnel have been compiled a but those figures have not Bee made Public because a spokesman said a fall the numbers needed to be  it resident it Poulalion figures alone Weie used. Massachusetts,.with a pop la Tion of 6,016,425, would nose out Washington at 4,867,692, for rights to the congressional seat which is the Hist allocated under the census Bureau formula for apportionment. Without the overseas count Massa Ehu setts 11th seat had a priority number of 435, with Washington at 436. When the new figures w efe included the two states. Changed places. 7 a the elimination i f the overseas personnel from the apportionment count would. Not have aided other states that narrowly lost seats including new , new York Kentucky and Montana according to Flection data sen ices analysis a congressional apportionment is based on a formula that has been used since 1940 that assigns priority numbers to each . Every state starts with one seat new. Seats Are added to each state s delegation based on  population relative to the other 49. 7 _ -. It fort Worth Texas him amen can airlines announced Friday that n will cancel .11 percent of is2,3l l daily flights by february. A. 7 the airline blamed the cutbacks on w hat it called an illegal Job action by  pilots. The Carrier said the cancellations will occur in phases with about 4 percent in january and the rest , the reduction will include Domestic and i Lerua Lional flights. A 1 the. Announcement follows Meilean s a tit inside full Page news pact adv cruise ment Camj Saign in which it issued a Juilie apology for an estimated 800 cancelled flights during the holidays. An line exec a Tives blamed the cutbacks Oil sick outs by  pilots and their Union. The Union has denied that  to embers participated in sick outs. Airline and Union Hugot patois have Dis. Cussed a hew contract for the Piast 14 months Blit the talks stalled Ovici wages and work rules. They Are set to resume monday in Washington w Ith the. Help of the National mediation Board. Atlanta apr a Man accused of ail bombings that killed a Federal judge id a City councilman in. Two states ended innocent Friday. Walter Leroy Moody jr.,56, was aligned a second time before a Federal Lai Istrate in Atlanta on charges of Send in tie 1989 mail bombs that killed 11th . Circuit court of appeals judge Rob it Vance in Alabama and Savannah civil eats lawyer and Atlanta Alderman Rob it Robinson. Moody was first arraigned. On the Lares nov. A the  his arrest lit stood mute. The court entered a plea f innocent for him. His attorney de Olley told us. Magistrate John Doug erty that he will withdraw a motion filed y Moody s previous attorney to bar fed in Atlanta Eraf judges from hearing the Case Tolley will ask that the Case be moved outside the 11th circuit.  Georgia Florida and Alabama. Attorney Bruce Harvey filed the first motioning november saying that no Federal judges could be impartial because Many of them a altered their lifestyles after a series of letters accompanying the mail bombs declared a a War against the entire Federal judiciary. 7 Tolley who Vas appointed 1 a get month to replace Harvey said that motion was too extreme. Moody was convicted last month of 13 counts of obstruction of a Tiv t ice in an unrelated Case tried in Bruns Wick. He Vas accused of tampering with witnesses while trying to overturn a 1972 Boink Possession conviction. In the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. Jan. 6, 1951 informal conversations related to German participation in the defense of Western Europe were set to begin Tor ., British and French delegations and a Eluee Man committee appointed by the West German f ederal Republic. A. R 30 years ago today. Jan. 6, 1961 a leaders of five major african Stales agreed to pull their troops Oil of the Congo to protest . Policy their according to  the Little african Summit. 20 years ago today. Jan. 6, 1971 a the wife of Britain s hunted great train. Robber Ronald Biggs lip pealed to him not to Contact her Over the death of their he year old son. Nicholas. Char Maine bikes pleaded with her husband not to give himself tip. A stay where you Aie she said. A. 10 years ago today. Jan. 6,. 19sl . Bernard Roc is. Supreme Allied , tie United slates should Start producing chemical weapons to combat a soviet buildup m these weapons