Officials Report On School Costs Amid Enrollment Decline
Washington AP reports two education administrator groups say rising public school costs persist despite enrollment drops due to expanded demands for special instruction. The Educational Research Service study, Cost of Education, notes student teacher ratios fell from 26.6 to 1 in 1959 60 to 18.2 to 1 in 1984 85 while extra programs for handicapped, impoverished, and limited English students increased per pupil spending.
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Washington
National School Boards Association
The
American Association of School Administrators
Secretary of Education
William J. Bennett
Education Bureaucracies
America
Educational Research Service of
Arlington
Department of Education
Douglas Comments On Insider Trading
Douglas questions Wall Street insiders motives as he decries blurred lines between reality and make believe. He cites Levine Boesky cases and asks if greed resembles Dynasty excess.
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Douglas
New York
Kirk Douglas
Wall Street
Parade
Dennis Levine
Ivan Boesky
Turner faces narcotics charges over the years
Turner, who lives in Cerritos, acknowledged daily cocaine use for 15 years and said he is undergoing rehabilitation. Various narcotics charges have been filed across the years.
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West Hollywood
Calif
Ike Turner
Turner
Tina Turner
Los Angeles
Pete Fosselman
Willie James Smith
Cerritos
USC and MUSC challenge Columbia teaching hospital funding plan
The Medical University of South Carolina and the state Higher Education Commission oppose a proposal to reimburse Richland Memorial Hospital $5.6 million for educating USC medical students. They argue the hospital already receives education funding and that adding costs would duplicate MUSC, risk letting USC rely more on Columbia hospitals, and raise overall education expenses.
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Columbia
Medical University of South Carolina
State Higher Education Commission
University of South Carolina
USC
Richland Memorial Hospital
Richland Memorial
School of Medicine
MUSC
The
Higher Education Commission
Charleston
Columbia-area
James B. Holderman
Holderman
Charles A. Brooks
South Carolina Commission On Higher Education
Richland County
South Carolina Consortium of Teaching Hospitals
Fourth Leading Cause of Premature Death Found
A federal CDC study ranks homicides and personal crisis reports as the fourth major cause of premature death in the United States, reporting 19 796 homicides and 29 286 personal crisis deaths in 1984. The study notes average ages at death and identifies disparities by race and gender.
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United States
National
Centers For Disease Control
Health Agency
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