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Evans wants $3.9 million for education in 1988

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Superintendent of Public Instruction H. Dean Evans and the State Board of Education want $3.9 million to refine or embellish the education reform package approved this year by the General Assembly. In a request released Wednesday, Evans and the board also said the Legislature should go on record endorsing three extra days for teacher training and parent-teacher conferences, a lengthening of the school year for staff that would cost the state S2O million annually beginning in 1989-90. Other changes recommended by the board include a $1 million program to provide special assistance to children who need remediation and another $1 million program for early childhood programs for economically disadvantaged children. The latter program would supplement a new S2O million program for at-risk children that begins in 1988-89. EVANS JOINED with Gov. Robert D. Orr in pushing through this year’s $4.5 billion school reform package, but he announced this year’s education through a press release late Wednesday afternoon. A news conference with Orr had been planned Monday but was canceled. Orr’s staff said the governor plans to save his comments on education for his annual State of the State speech on Jan. 7. Evans said he believes the most important education priority for the 1988 General Assembly is to avoid making major changes in this year’s reform package. That package added five days to the school year beginning in 198889, expanded student competency testing and remediation, established a new school accreditation system based in part on performance and set up a financial rewards system for schools that excel. “THE PROGRAM adopted last year will work in the manner intended, but only if we leave it alone and let it work,” said Evans.

Rep. Bauer wants American parts used

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Companies that accept economic development incentives from the state should be required to purchase 80 percent of their parts and materials from American companies, a state representative believes. - 4f lt is time to stop playing Santa Claus to companies which purchase their materials from abroad," said Rep. B. Patrick Bauer, D-South Bend, a candidate for the 1988 Democratic nomination for lieutenant governor.

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H. DEAN EVANS Reveals education plans

In an interview before the package was released, Evans said the new education proposal is modest by design because he doesn’t want to invite lawmakers to start rewriting this year’s House Bill 1360. “If acquiring additional benefits for boys and girls risks losing what we had in House Bill 1360, then it’s not worth it,” Evans told The Associated Press. Orr said in a recent speech that he considers the major sections of H.B. 1360 “off limits” for revisions in 1988. Among the recommendations from Evans and the 10-member state school board are: —Giving notice that three extra days will be added to the school year for teacher training and parent-teacher conferences in 198990 so that schools could prepare for the change. The 1989 General Assembly then would be asked to pay the S2O million annual cost. —ESTABLISHING a $500,000 arts in education program that would give money to local schools to develop art programs, train local arts coordinators, implement diagnostic achievement tests on the arts and create dance and theater arts programs in elementary

If state incentives are used to build a plant that buys foreign goods, ‘‘the state hasn’t really helped Hoosiers. Instead, it helped market foreign goods in the United Stales,” Bauer said Wednesday. Last year, the state put together an SB6 million package of state, federal and local incentives to attract the SSOO million Subaru-Isuzu auto assembly plant to Tippecanoe County. * Bauer complained the Japanese company appears ready to purchase a majority of its parts from other

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schools. —Changing the school funding formula so that school corporations with tax rates in excess of $4.50 would not be penalized by loss of state aid after passing a school referendum to raise more money locally. This would cost $300,000. —Creating an executive leadership academy for local school superintendents and other top administrators. The school, modeled after the principals’ leadership academy, would cost $200,000. —Strengthening the new beginning teacher internship program by hiring substitute teachers to replace beginning and mentor teachers who are participating in the mentor program. The cost is $240,000. —Establishing a program to help teachers improve their writing skills. The cost is $292,000. —IMPROVING the Department of Education’s computer and information-management system at —Continuing the “Schooling for the 21st Century” curriculum study at a cost of $70,000. The board also mentioned in its recommendations three other programs that it either supports or wants studied further. Project Primetime, the program to lower classroom sizes in kindergarten through third grade, shodld be continued, and the new textbook reimbursement program refined so the state pays for more materials for indigent children. THE BOARD also said that “consideration should be given to addressing early retirement for teachers and administrators in such a way that it fulfills our goals and objectives for improving our schools but only so long as it is fiscally responsible.” The Indiana State Teachers Association has strongly urged the Legislature in the past to allow teachers to retire early. A legislative study committee was told this summer early retirement could cost up to $34 million annually, but some educators and lawmakers dispute that figure.

Japanese businesses. Bauer said he will propose legislation that would require companies that accept the state incentives to purchase from domestic suppliers 80 percent of the materials for construction and operation of their plants. If the companies failed to do that, their state incentives would be revoked and the companies would be required to refund any benefit they received, Bauer said.

Shuttle rocket passes latest test

BRIGHAM CITY, Utah (AP) NASA celebrated the season with a burst of flame and smoke as engineers conducted a flawless second full-scale test-firing of the redesigned space shuttle booster under severe winter conditions. The test showed that the deficiencies that plagued the Challenger design have been “well corrected,” according to a Morton Thiokol engineer had who warned against launching the space shuttle in freezing conditions. “WE’RE GETTING very bullish OT a June launch,” said J.R. Thompson, director of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. The 1.2 million-pound booster roared to life Wednesday in a twominute test that marked another milestone in America’s return to manned space flight and sent engineers’ confidence in the new design soaring. “That’s about as good a Christmas present as we could get,” said Allan McDonald, vice president for shuttle engineering for Thiokol, which makes the booster and conducted the test “Everything was just perfect It couldn’t have been better.” The motor ignited at 2:30 p.m., defying the 25-degree temperature, 25 mph wind and a dusting of snow that delayed the countdown 90 minutes. Thiokol officials agreed it was

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the worst rocket-testing weather ever encountered by the company. The final 60-minute countdown was halted at noon when the snow began. “HANG IN THERE! Hang in there!” coaxed Carver Kennedy, Thiokol vice president for space services, as the rocket spewed orange flames and light-brown smoke with a rumble that shook the ground at an observation area 9,000 feet from the test bay. The cold conditions were welcomed by company and NASA officials eager to test the limits of the rocket’s new joint heaters, although they stressed such conditions would never exist during a launch from Cape Canaveral, Fla. A presidential commission found that cold weather may have contributed to failure of O-rings sealing a joint on one of Challenger’s two boosters on Jan. 28, 1986. The joint vented super-hot gases that ignited an external fuel tank, causing an explosion that destroyed the shuttle and killed its seven-member crew. The new booster’s performance elicited cheers from about 700 company and NASA workers. “THE MORE I see, the better I feel,” said Royce Mitchell, NASA’s solid rocket motor manager. “This is a good design a sound design.” The test’s outcome was particularly gratifying for McDonald, who had been punished by the

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