2000 Education Briefs States fail to meet 1989 education goals set by Governors. None of the eight goals set at the nation's first Governors' summit on education 10 years ago have been met, despite the year 2000 deadline. Significant numbers of students have failed to achieve competency in core subjects, graduation rates and teacher training have not increased, schools are not safer, and parents are no more involved in education than they were a decade ago.
States move to soften new testing standards.
Arizona's Board of Education will revisit and possibly revise a new 10th-grade math test which only one in 10 students passed last year. New York, Massachusetts and California have relaxed or delayed new standards, and Wisconsin has withdrawn a test that every student would have been required to pass in order to graduate from high school. Maryland communities are forbidden to name their own schools. The list includes locals Thomas Henry Andrews Jr., a murdered cab driver, union leader Vincent T. Foo, janitor Lee Jordan, and the left-wing author James A. Michener. A Virginia 6th grader was punished for refusing to read a curse word in class.