From the October 21, 1996 Daily Report Card:
-> *4   CALIFORNIA DREAMIN':  PHONICS, SAFETY, ON-LINE U
->    Calif. Gov Pete Wilson (R) recently signed a law that
-> requires many candidates for teaching credentials to study
-> phonics (Lynch and Lembke, EDUCATION BEAT, 10/11).  A companion bill
-> provides $29M to schools for staff development and $1M to
-> the CTC to develop an exam for new reading teachers.
->    Another bill signed by Wilson is designed to get tough on
-> disruptive students.  The legislation requires school officials to
-> recommend expulsion for students who assault teachers or any other
-> school employee.  Under another bill, those students may
-> enroll in alternative schools, but the facilities may not be on
-> regular school campuses, writes ED BEAT.
->    In a higher education matter, Wilson wants to part paths
-> from other Western governors who together developed a plan to
-> create a virtual higher education institution for the region
-> called Western VIrtual U (See DRC 1-12-96).  However, Calif.'s
-> version may "involve little more than pulling together different,
-> existing efforts of public and private universities in one
-> place," writes ED BEAT.
->    On 2 October, Wilson made an announcement regarding Calif.'s
-> approach to creating a Virtual U.  He directed his deputy chief of
-> staff, Joseph D. Rodota, Jr. together with U of California
-> President Richard Atkinson, California State U Chancellor Barry
-> Munitz, Acting California Community College Chancellor Thomas
-> Nussbaum, U of Souther California President Steven Sample and
-> Stanford U President Gerhard Gasper and officials from the
-> private sector to form a design team to "analyze all issues
-> relating to the creation and operation of a California-based
-> initiative and recommend potential implementation approaches."
->    According to ED BEAT, Sample's support for Wilson's idea to
-> stray from the other western governors' approach is lukewarm.
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