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THE BANNERGRAPHIC October 14,1987

Year-round school schedule approved for Los Angeles

c. 1987 N.Y. Times News Service LOS ANGELES certain to be closely watched by educators, parents and operators of summer camps across the country, the Los Angeles board of education has voted to put all its 618 schools and 592,000 students on a year-round schedule. The Los Angeles decision does not necessarily increase the number of school days, but it is expected to save money on new construction and allow more efficient use of existing school facilities. And it gives a major lift to a concept that has been promoted by educators and resisted by many parents and students for years. In Los Angeles, students would go to school for the same total of 180 days a year, but they would have more, shorter vacations. In crowded schools, vacations would be staggered to ease the demand for *pace. With onenquarter of its students having attended schools on a 12month schedule for several years, Los Angeles, the nation’s second-larged school system, was already at the forefront of the slow move toward year-round schooling. The board’s decision Monday to make the program system-wide marked the first time a major American city has adopted yearround scheduling for all its students. Educational experts said Los Angeles would be studied closely by other school systems to see whether the benefits of a yearround program are worth the sacrifice of the traditional summer vacation. Already, 67 school districts around the country have adopted some type of 12-month calendar, according to the National Association for Year-Round Education in San Diego. “Those of us in year-round education believe educators simply cannot justify that long,

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three-month summer vacation anymore,'’ said Dr. Charles E. Ballinger, executive secretary of the National Association for Year-Round Education and an official of the San Diego school system. “The nine-month schedule was never designed for education in the first place,” Ballinger said. “It’s a 19th century agriculturaleconomic schedule.” The year-round schedules will take effect here in July 1989. The exact calendar to be used is still under study, but most students will either go to school on a cycle of 60 weekdays of class followed by 20 weekdays of vacation, or 90 weekdays of class followed by 30 weekdays of vacation. For example, under the most popular option, students would have onemonth vacations in August, December and April. The decision in Los Angeles, on a 4-3 vote, followed years of debate. The issue was made particularly divisive because it came against a backdrop of the competing interests of different racial and economic groups. Opponents, most of them from relatively affluent and predominantly white areas where school overcrowding is not a major problem, have argued that the new system would disrupt traditional vacation and summer-work schedules. But supporters, many from Hispanic and black inner-city areas, contend that year-round schedules are the only economically practical way to cope with a continuing influx of new students into schools that are already strained beyond capacity. Monday’s vote illustrated those opposing viewpoints, with the four votes in favor coming from school board members representing overcrowded inner-city areas, and the negative votes from members representing the affluent west side of Los Angeles.

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Penn Central right-of-way (destined to become the Southern Highway). -Approved unanimously on all three readings Ordinance 1987-17, authorizing vacation of a platted but never developed alleyway between the Mildred Butts and lola Miller property in the Dulin Subdivision off Manhattan Road in Limedale. The City Council is considered the governing body in this case because the property is within the two-mile fringe area. -UNANIMOUSLY passed a resolution citing the retirement of Betty Warman, who served as billing clerk at the city sewage department for 26 years. The resolution, prepared by Attorney Calbert at Sedlack’s suggestion last month, termed Mrs. Warman “a rare employee” who provided “dedicated and faithful service to the city.” -Advised residents of Fillmore Road who are interested in connecting to the city sewage system that the project recently completed by Reynolds Construction, Brazil, to extend the sewer line to Automotive Industries’ Shenandoah Division plant came in $200,000 under budget.

Thacker

tentionally kills another human being while under sudden heat.” The crime is a class B felony, but becomes a class A felony if it is committed with a deadly weapon. The plea agreement calls for Judge Stelle to determine Thacker’s sentence, while the state may not site aggravating circumstances, nor make any recommendations on the sentence. The agreement does call for Thacker to get at least six years on

Brock to switch allegiance to Dole

WASHINGTON (AP) - Labor Secretary William E. Brock will resign his Cabinet post to become presidential campaign manager for Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole, with whom he served in both the House and Senate, Republican sources say. Sources who asked not to be identified said Brock would announce his decision on Thursday. The Labor Department said it could not confirm the reports B rock would resign. “I can’t give you any confirmation on it,” David Demarest, an assistant Labor secretary, said late Tuesday. However, other sources close to Brock confirmed that he would step down.

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City officials are presently working with the State Department of Commerce in an attempt to use a portion of those leftover funds granted for the AI project to aid Fillmore Road residents. According to City Engineer Cliff Norton’s recommendation, the sanitary sewer line would make one crossing under Fillmore Road and then go down the east side of the widened county roadway. Residents were reminded, however, that before such services will be added, the area must be annexed into the city. -APPROVED USE of Cumulative Capital Development funds, which have been designated for use only on streets and curbs, on repaving several downtown streets. Street Commissioner Byron Snyder offered the following estimates: Indiana Street, from Franklin to Washington, $1,520; Indiana, from Washington to Walnut, $3,520; Jackson Street, from Washington to Walnut, $4,080; Franklin Street, from Jackson to Indiana, SI,OBO, and the Indiana-Franklin intersection, SBOO. Snyder said the work could

probation, and as much as 10 years in prison. UNDER INDIANA LAW, a class B felony is punishable by up to 10 years in prison. Ten years can be added for aggravating circumstances, while four years can be suspended for mitigating circumstances. Felling and Lowe had originally said if they did not have a plea bargain by Aug. 31, Thacker would stand trial. Because of a conflict in Felling’s schedule, that informal

Brock had been approached by several Republican presidential campaigns in recent weeks, including those of Dole, R-Kan., Vice President George Bush and Rep. Jack Kemp, R-N.Y., according to close Brock associates. The Labor secretary has, in personal conversations, expressed interest in heading the State, Defense or Treasury departments if Republicans retain control of the White House in the 1988 election. One source, speaking on condition of anonymity, confirmed that Brock would announce his resignation soon, but would likely remain in his Cabinet job “into November.” Dole already Is actively cam-

Board of Works-

to the city to be used for economic development purposes. Albright said the water line loop expenditure can be qualified by three factors: 1. That Department of Commerce funds, and not user fees, would be used to finance it; 2. The loop would “only enhance the possibility of other companies locating in that area of Greencastle; 3. The possibility that the area will include future housing development as more industry brings about the need for additional housing. “The funds are available without increasing user fees to do so,” Albright said. “Now is an opportune time to do something. ” Greencastle Development Center Director Dick Andis reminded the Board of Works, however, that use of the DOC funds might include the necessity of a city matching share. The standard formula is 75-25, with the local funds being the 25 percent. THE BOARD REACHED no decision on the “loop” project, approving only what Albright called “the first step,” the Bonar water systems study. Meanwhile, the subject shifted to Automotive Industries’ soon-to-be neighbor to the south, TechnoTrim, and its need for a 988-foot sewer line extension to the lift station at the AI site.

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begin as early as next week. -HEARD SNYDER report that resurfacing of Anderson and Howard streets, where sewer system improvements were recently made, will be done by next week. He also noted that the Fifth Street storm sewer project, accomplished with a $60,000 donation from IBM Corp., is 90 percent complete. It will come in under the $60,000 budget, Snyder added. -Heard Sewage Plant Supt. Charlene Nichols report that the IBM and Curtain Factory lift stations have been updated and an effluent flow meter, as requested by the EPA, has been installed at the plant. --Heard Norton report that 16 building permits were issued during September for a 1987 total of 100. To date, estimated citywide construction cost for the year is $9,573,920, compared to $2,339,380 in 1986. This year, thus far, $1,353 in building-permit fees, has been collected. -HEARD POLICE Chief Jim Hen-

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deadline was pushed back to Sept. 15. When that date passed without an agreement, Lowe said the case was bound for trial on Oct. 26. Wednesday morning Felling explained when that deadline passed he was still working on some of the discovery information Lowe had previously provided, and was thus still investigating the case. “It just took the legal process this long to work,” Felling said.

paigning for president, but a formal announcement of his candidacy is not scheduled until Nov. 9. Brock, a former congressman and senator from Tennessee, and chairman of the Republican National Committee from 1977 to 1981, would bring a reputation as a strong political organizer to Dole’s campaign, which has run second behind Bush’s in the early polls. There was no immediate word on likely successors to Brock but early speculation centered on Constance Horner, a former director of the Office of Personnel Management, and Dennis Whitfield, the department’s deputy secretary and a close aide to Brock for several years

While no estimates were available Tuesday, Street Commissioner Byron Snyder said the project could be accomplished for $22,000-$23,000. The sewer line, he said, has to be buried 8-12 feet at the site. FEARING THE ONSET of bad weather and knowing that TechnoTrim is on a “fast, fast track” to get its project under roof by December, the board authorized Snyder to secure bids from three contractors and return to the Board of Works for a decision later this month. As long as the proposals are less than $25,000, the city will not have to advertise for bidders, Calbert reminded. Snyder noted that TechnoTrim has requested a speedy resolution of the matter because it is running short of time to complete paving work at the construction site. And before paving can be completed, all water and sewer lines need to be in place. IN OTHER BUSINESS, the Board of Works unanimously passed a resolution to accept the recently announced Economic Development Adminstration grant of $217,000. The funds were granted to the city for the operation of the Greencastle Development Center and consolidation of the activities of the Putnam County United Way, Main

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drich update the Council on concerns over church parking in yellow-zone areas. Most congregations utilize adjacents lots, the chief said, and only four or five churches will be affected by a city ordinance that is being prepared, possibly for introduction at the November Council meeting. The ordinance is expected to be writ ten to allow churches permission to use yellow zones during church services, and possibly weddings and funerals. Those requests had almost always been honored by city police in the past, but nothing in writing actually spelled out the policy. 1116 amended ordinance will attempt ta do that. Present Tuesday night besides Albright, Sedlack, Calbert, Mrs. Nichols, Hendrich, Norton and Snyder, were Councilmen John Stevens, Flossie Keck, Don Ambler and Tim Conway, Clerk-Treasurer Janice Inman, deputy clerk Pamm Jones, Water Supt. Leon Phillips and Fire Chief Bob Elmore. THE NEXT REGULARLY scheduled meeting of the Greencastle City Council will be at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 10 at City Hall.

During the change-of-plea hearing, Felling told Judge Stelle that he planned to call as many as a dozen witnesses during the Nov. 10 sentencing hearing in order to show what he believes will be mitigating circumstances in the case. He thought his case might take two hours to present. HAD THACKER BEEN convicted by a jury of murder, she could have faced up to 60 years in prison.

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WILLIAM BROCK Quitting Cabinet post

Street Greencastle, Greencastle Chamber of Commerce and the Development Center into one headquarters. Councilman Robert Sedlack, on hand for the 40-minute afternoon meeting, asked if consideration has been given to moving the GDC office - presently housed at the Central Insurance building - to a more downtown location. Dave Murray, president of the GDC Board of Directors, responded that consolidation of those offices is already being addressed by a committee. Since Main Street and the Chamber offices are already in the heart of the city, “it was predispositioned,” Murray noted, “that we do something downtown.” MEANWHILE, ANOTHER resolution resulted in a management agreement between the city and the GDC, relative to the EDA grant. The GDC will administer and manage “grant activities” for the city, being held accountable, Andis said, to the City Council and EDA office in Chicago for all expenditures. Besides Calbert and Mayor Albright, Board of Works member Ralph Taylor, Water Supt. Phillips, Fire Chief Bob Elmore, ClerkTreasurer Janice Inman and deputy clerk Pamm Jones were in attendance.