Banner Graphic, Volume 18, Number 25, Greencastle, Putnam County, 6 October 1987 — Page 3

School proposals

State being asked to help with cost of textbooks for Hoosier indigents

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) school board members don’t expect the 1988 General Assembly to approve major changes in education, but they do hope for a few changes that could save Hoosier schools millions of dollars. The Indiana School Boards Association, meeting at its annual convention in Indianapolis Monday, approved resolutions calling for increased funding for a new program to provide textbooks to indigent students and for structural changes in the new formula for distributing state aid to schools. “We direly need some corrections in the school formula,” said Jack Peterson, the ISBA’s executive director. The resolutions were among 20 approved by a 152-member delegate assembly on the first day of the group’s two-day conference. Most of the resolutions recommend fine tuning for proposals contained in House Bill 1360, the major education reform bill of the last legislative session, or other school initiatives, the association’s leaders said. “I think it’s probably safe to say there won’t be any sweeping reforms in 1988,” said Buzz Horton of North

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Taylor shooting probed

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) An FBI investigation of the death of a teenager shot while in police custody likely will reveal more than police and city officials have uncovered, a special agent says. : Police believe Michael Taylor, 16, shot himself in the head while his hands were cuffed behind his back, but black community leaders have riot accepted that theory. I The FBl’s preliminary investigation, which began Sept. 26, could be concluded by the end of the week, special agent-in-charge William C. Ervin said at a news conference Monday. ' The shooting was the subject of a march on police headquarters Saturday by more than 700 people. Ervin said he was not sure all questions surrounding the shooting would be answered by the FBI probe. • The FBI, with two agents assigned full-time to the case, has “received a

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White School Corp., chairman of the association’s legislative committee. “Legislators will probably spend more time sifting through and reacting to changes in House Bill 1360,” he said. The textbook program outlined in H.B. 1360 “has resulted in increased deficits for school corporations,” according to the ISBA legislative committee’s report. Under the program, students who qualify for school lunch assistance are to receive free textbooks this year. The General Assembly appropriated $6 million for the program, but Department of Education officials have estimated that twice that amount may be needed to provide textbooks to all qualified students.

(standing, from left) Donovan Hanna, her grandson; Mary Ann Hanna, her daughter, and Ben Jones, her son. Mrs. Jones is apparently the oldest living graduate of DePauw University. (Banner-Graphic photo by Gary Goodman).

number of phone calls from people we didn’t solicit as witnesses,” Ervin said. The case could be taken before a federal grand jury if the U.S. district attorney or other Justice Department officials find the FBl’s report warrants further investigation, he added. Taylor was arrested Sept. 24 on a charge of attempted vehicle theft. Patrolman Charles F. Penniston searched Taylor twice and drove him to Marion County Juvenile Center, where Taylor allegedly shot himself while sitting in the back of the squad car, police said. Police believe the Emmerich Manual High School student, who was black, shot himself with a gun that either was concealed in his shoe or had been left in the car’s seat during an earlier arrest. Officials said tests determined the bullet did not come from a police service revolver.

The schools will have to pick up the textbook fees that the state cannot afford, the ISBA said. In its resolution, the association called for the state to appropriate enough money to fully fund the textbook program. The ISBA also called for a change in the complicated statistical formula that helps determine the state’s distribution of money to school districts. The association voted for a resolution endorsing full funding for each additional student enrolled in a school. A new provision in the formula adopted this year set a threshold of 10 percent cumulative growth over the last five years. Schools that have grown by that amount receive a sub-

Vote of confidence for Purdue president

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) Purdue University President Steven C. Beering, criticized by some faculty members as insensitive and autocratic, has received praise from the president of the board of trustees. Board president Donald Powers, during a special meeting Monday, cited the “magic period of leadership under Steve Beering.” Powers, who entered Purdue 49 years ago as a student and who has worked with four presidents, said: “I can honestly say to you that I know of no man who has impacted on this university to such degree in so short a time as Steve Beering. For this, I respect and admire him. “For his ability to rekindle the pride of its alumni in the institution, for his ability to relate to and touch people and to bring them into the supporting membership of univer-

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stantial increase in funding that varies by district, according to Dennis Costerison of the ISBA research staff. However, schools that have shown less than 10 percent growth over the same period end up with only about S3O per new student, he said. “It doesn’t affect a large number of districts, but for those it does affect, it’s a substantial amount of money,” said Costerison. “Thirty dollars doesn’t go very far when you’re talking about hiring new staff,” he said. The new formula also has created problems for some districts that successfully appeal to voters for more money in school referendums, the ISBA said. Under the new formula, as the money from the referendum proposal comes in, state support of the school declines, said Costerison. That defeats the purpose of the referendum, which is designed to give schools new money for special needs or to increase funding to existing programs, he said. “It’s possible to win a referendum and lose state support,” he said. Other legislative proposals approved by the ISBA call for: —Having the superintendent of

sity friends and alumni, I love the man.” Beering, who became president July 1, 1983, has attributed some of the criticism to an attempt to increase membership in Purdue’s chapter of the American Federation of Teachers, the faculty union. In other action Monday, the board approved a new medical insurance plan to cover about 9,000 faculty and staff members on four campuses and about 1,500 retirees. The program was devised by the university’s business office in consultation with staff and retiree groups, said Howard S. Lyon, vice president for business servicesFinancial problems brought on by rising medical costs and competition from alternative programs had been projected to cost Purdue’s selfinsured program $5 million next year.

public instruction appointed by the 10-member state Board of Education. The superintendent currently is elected as a political candidate. —Permitting a school to suspend without pay any employee charged with a sex crime, public indecency, use or possession of an illegal drug or providing alcohol to minors. Some delegates argued unsuccessfully that the proposal would violate the employee’s right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty. Other delegates said they feared schools would never recover the money paid in salary to a teacher suspended with pay and later found guilty. —More stable funding for gifted and talented programs, replacing the current funding by grants with a regular general funding mechanism that any school could use. —Allowing a school to go outside its teacher contract and hire specialized teaching help in shortage areas such as mathematics and physics, possibly for more money than any regular teacher receives. —Opposition to any attempt to change the state’s teacher bargaining law.

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