From: curt@aixwiz.austin.ibm.com (Curt Finch/131072)
Newsgroups: tx.politics,austin.politics
Subject: Koop says both candidates are hosers
Date: 8 Sep 92 21:24:57 GMT
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         THE NATIONAL UPDATE ON AMERICA'S EDUCATION GOALS
  An APN publication, supported by The Annie E. Casey Foundation
         and the Business Coalition for Education Reform
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*9   EDUCATION AND HEALTH OFFICIALS:  PUT PRESCHOOL FIRST
     Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
President Ernest Boyer and former Surgeon General C. Everett
Koop, have issued a joint statement calling on presidential
contenders President Bush and Ark. Gov. Bill Clinton to issue a
bipartisan proclamation to reaffirm their commitment to goal one
of the National Education Goals (Innerst, WASH. TIMES).
     The statement, which was sent to U.S. Ed Sec Lamar Alexander
and White House domestic policy adviser Roger Porter, reads:
"This fall, 3 1/2 million children will enroll in public school
for the first time ... They are shockingly restricted in their
potential to learn because of poor health, social deficiencies
and linguistic deprivation."
     The statement adds:  "How can we ignore the conditions that
make their prospects for school success so doubtful? ... There is
a deep yearning in this country for a larger, more inspired
vision around which everyone can rally.  And if both candidates
would renew their pledge to children, it not only would be good
politics, it also would be right."
     Robert Hochstein, spokesman for the Carnegie Foundation said
both presidential contenders were "major players" in setting the
education goals, but now neither of them are talking about the
goals, "so we're raising the issue again." (9/6)

*11  EDITORIAL:  N.Y.C. SCHOOLS BETRAY PARENTS WITH AIDS PROGRAM
     A W.S. JOURNAL editorial today says that "parents rallying
in front of New York's City Hall last week were in a fury over an
educational system that proposed to give out condoms to
schoolchildren as an AIDS prevention program."  The JOURNAL adds
that "there is a power that takes hold of citizens when they feel
they are being betrayed by institutions they once trusted above
all others, such as their schools."
     The demonstration was precipitated by Schools Chancellor
Joseph Fernandez' attempt to overturn the city School Board's
decision to require those teaching AIDS prevention in schools to
sign a pledge that counseling would stress abstinence (See DRC
8/28 #3).
     The JOURNAL:  "The parents who marched on City Hall were
there to say they weren't prepared to sit back and allow the
schools to so fundamentally define the moral and sexual education
of their children ... The signs that bespoke their opposition to
the Chancellor and his AIDS curriculum said, 'Christians Say No,'
'Muslims Say No' and 'Jews Say No.'"
     The newspaper adds that abstinence is "inevitably bound up
with suggestions of morality, and this is a notion that clearly
discomfits some of the teachers and groups involved in the AIDS
curriculum." (9/8)
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