home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- <text id=93TT1596>
- <title>
- May 03, 1993: Pallid Plan for Schools
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- May 03, 1993 Tragedy in Waco
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 21
- NATION
- Pallid Plan for Schools
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>Clinton's education program turns out to be 1990-vintage George
- Bush
- </p>
- <p> How does one get to be "The Education President"? Borrow your
- program from George Bush. Bill Clinton, of course, would not put
- it that way. But his first plan for educational reform is
- largely a request that Congress write into law six goals that
- Bush and the nation's Governors agreed to in 1990. The most
- important provisions: the government would set up a board to
- establish standards for schools, teachers and students to meet
- in both academic and vocational education and put up $393
- million to encourage states to find ways to meet those
- standards.
- </p>
- <p> And that's about it. The plan avoids all the toughest
- issues. National testing of students or teachers? "We're not
- proposing [that] in any way," said Education Secretary Richard
- Riley. Equalization of funding between rich and poor districts
- within states? No mention. School choice, either by vouchers
- cashable at public or private schools as Republicans propose,
- or among public schools only, a la Clinton's campaign? Not a
- word.
- </p>
-
- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
-
-