Focu :HOP
target bUilding
for dorm
Teens tackle
drug house
renovation
DETROIT �lmani Project, a .
collaboration of four community
group : Operation Get Down; In
ner City Sub Center, 4H Eastside
Center and Alekebu-Lan Center
for Martial Arts, i giving kids a
chance to contribute omething
to their community.
The project elected 150 ap
plicants in January to renovate a
drug house on W. Grand Blvd.
The program gives teens an op
portunity to develop carpentry
and drafting skills.
The group has a $75 000 one
year grant from WK Kellogg
Foundation, $20, of which
was used to purchase the house.
One idea W� to renovate the
house into a youth-run restaurant.
Arab grocers
says respect
pays off
WASHINGTON-Adeb Jaber
could called "the clean up
man". The Arab grocer buy
Arab tores that fail because the
previous owners lack a respect
for the Black neighborhood they
upy and total renovates them.
Jabe . ntly ught a run
down t rc in Syrac e that mad
3 week] y. He redeco rated,
rest ked, and asked the people
in the m tly Bl k neigh r
hood what they wanted. He
turned the s re IOtO a 21, a
week-venture J I" told mem
be of the American-Arab
Ann-Dl nmmatlon Committee
at their 10th annual conferc in
Washlngton.
The commi ttee also di ' cd
relatioTl! With Afncan-Amen
can". Ham Bawanh, dm:.ctor of
th FIl nt AADC chapter, . aid
Ardh 'I" .� need to become
more' 'llve In community anm�
and hecome. e� Itl e to the nccd�
(;1 the nel 1h rh()(}d� they \ervc,
particularl bccau\C these mall
OlTh arc .otten th 'only () � op
cl"atln J 10 IOn or <.:Itll....,.
olnpd'd hy Turl'lw Turk
By �EFFREY A. SCHOENBORN
C.p ., N.w. S.rvlc.
upportcrs of privatization ar uc that Ire
market ornpctition n drive down co, LI\ �
well as rcli .vc s .hools of the hurdcn of. uper
vi, in th eemployce on a day-to-day ba is.
"TIlE I'RlVATE S .. RVI E ha! a lot
like health
me I provid T'\ who ar In tum up TVI ed by
ARA rvi cs.
"Benton Hamor fo d eTVJe empl y .
arc nth di tri t payroll ,It aid th t d� tnci'
fo d crvic director, Peg Pamer, an ARA
empl yee. "I int rvicw job pplican and
ma reoomm ndations to th d� trier' p r-
nnel o ice.
It: RE couple major districts
in th tate, and even few mall on ,wh re
the aving were purported to be 0 percent
to 60 percent over thr to five years," he said.
"Those avin have not materialized."
Another problem Taylor aid the MFA has
with privatization i that firms could take
away job that arc often filled by members of
the urrounding community.
Dowagi food- ervice workers are em-
ployed directly by Marriott and ar non-un
ion. However, in Benton Harbor Public
School th MFA represents the unionized
" � HU 0 D percent of the em-
ploy ar from th community," h aid.
Connie Ramachandran i on of ARA'
Michigan district managers. She aid chool
benefit from her company' ability to provide
better service, better quality and the re ulting
higher al .
"We just as how high th chools want us
to jump, and we ay how high," Ramachan
dran aid, but that' true in the service indus
try in gen ral."
1 ... \ (;- xc days. as Mi higan
sch II . tri L� try to get "more han for tl 'ir
tuck.", me .h 1 administration arc look
ing at privatizati n a temptin option for
pro iding certain rvi s.
Job u h custodian .• cafeteria worx rs
and bus driven; are th po itions n10 t m
monly contracted out The majority of he
chool in the. tate provt such upport
ices in-h we, but many ar . . .
ti ti t tti tIthe past 11 years. Judd aid Mamott ets 11
17�, Ion as a cos -cu 109 00 . . ' cents for. every meal sold, and estimat that
. It p�bably would not hurt ed�ca�n to it would co t th di trict 60 cents per meal to
divorce it If from the non-aca�enuc dimen- rovide the ervi e tbemselv .
IOns. and concentrate on funding the teach- p . . . , .
ing of boy and girl," aid St. Jo eph Public Some of pn�anzatlOn bigg t opponents
Schools Superintendent Fred Richardson. a.re the labor umons who e mem?e� are pub-
Ri h d ' di tri t h d t lie chool upport staff. Th Michigan Edu-
ar on s IS IC o�ever, oes no cation Association represents just ov r
�urrently con�ct out any da�y s?pport "" 25,000 such school employees, as well as the
lCesl dbut the scud that alternative IS not being majority of the teachers in the state.
ru e ou.
Taking A Minute To Chat
Conqressrnan John Coyners (D-Mi�h.), William Gibson, national board member NAACP .and Rev.
Benjamin ChaviS, national executive director NAACP were on hand for the annual Oetrolt NAACP
Freedom Fund Dinner held April 18 at Detroit's Cobo Hall. More than 10,000 people attended the dinner.
The dinner raised over $1 million, 40 percent of which goes to the Detroit Branch NAACP.
,
urance from th local commu�
nity."
Grand Rapids Community CoI�
lege, which earm ed fon
capital outlay.pro)e9ts, is in bette�
h p than oth rs around the tate.
j The - cnool wiirtnatch the 519.2
million approved by the Legi lature
for a nC\V c1as room building to a �
commodate the 1,200 new tudents
flooding in each year, aid PI" ident
Ri hard Calkins.
The Legi lature also approved
3.5 million for a health education
building at Monroe Community Col-;
le ,$4.5 million for renovations at
Oakland Community College. $12.5:
million for a cience and learning
t hnology f ility a+ Delta College'
and $12.8 million for an caderni
ervi e facility· at Lan ing Cornrnu-
nity College. ,J
The additional bonding requir
Ie i lation pas ed by the House raL'�
in the bond cap to $2 billion. �
, ;.
,
MI HIGA' OMMUNIT �
colleg hav c pericnced teady en
rollment increase ince 1986 despiti
a de line. in colle -a tudent '.
Enrollment hit 22 .029 for fall 1
aid EI ie Kettering, analy t for th�
tate Department of Edu anon'
higher education divi ion.
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By JENNIFER FINER
C. IW News Service
LAN lNG-Putting a young tu
dent wi th major handicap in a gen
eral education cl, . room may be a
great idea-in pnnciple.
But, me education om ials,
particularly me Michigan As 0-
, ciation of Sch 01 Board leaders,
are king can "rnainstreaming" be
too di ruptivc and expcre ive?
The answe� vary.
Main! treamin Involve. taking
a spe ial edu<.:ali n tudent amI put
�in that tudent ina general ed� a
tion cl' room.
The Idea of malI1Streammg �n't
new but orne arc qu tJOnmg Its
pm ticali ty, e peclally now that it i
gaining popularity acro� the na
tion's clas room.
TIlE E lU.Y '70 , Con
gf mandated that all handi
capp d tudent!\ he cducated In the
"least, re tn tlve manner. "
Today, �ch()()1 dlstncts are . m
plyIng With thb law through mrun
lrearrun , "In 'lu"lon" or the "least
re. lnctivt; envmmmcnl."
"In Macomb County, we use the
term least restrictive environment,"
aid Virginia Aldridge, dir ctor of
pedal education wi th the Anchor
Bay School Di trier.
"We try to provide th Ie t re-
trictive environment f r the child,
by detcrmirun wh re the tudcnt
can fun tion b t," aid Lauren.
Buechler, director pc ial educa
tion with outh Lake ch I D' -
trict.
Till determinatIOn I made by
lookin at where a partl ular S'tu
dent will fun t10n b talon a con
tinuum; from a re ular edu ation
'etting with no pecial education, to
orne pecial edu at1 n, t a part
time cl- 'room ituation or a re
OUf! r om, Buechler ald.
InclUSIOn en�raJly refers t
pI ing a pc Ial edu auon. tudent
in a enerdJ educati n cl<1! sroom
either [i r a part of th day or the
entircday withor without extra sup
port for a stuuenl.
Whatever the t rm of ch i e
may be, th CJl U 1 m remams th
'am .
. Tom Whit', direct r 01 govern
ment relati n' for the Mi hl an· '
ociation of S ho I ard and
Justin King, MASB executive di
rector, a ree th t although mai n
treamin often work, problem
an: c in fundin uch pfi grams.
"I KNOW FR )M talkin to
teachers there are me real pro
and cons to it In terms of cdu a
ti n," White. aid. "The kids who
arc there gam sere itivity from it and
they become part ot an educatIOnal
pro ram f r tllOlie kid .. It' work
in very well in ma.ny ituali nand
it'. an overall Improvement 0 the
educational ·pro nun.
':On 0 the problem. With it I
the phenomenal ' ll\ that arc
sometim 'as iat dwithit."
Whi t dCScribed one si tuation
wh re it ould' 1 up to 30, )() a
year to mail1\tream a . tudent with
multiple handicaps. "Edu auonally
it cems to e om ·thln that. ome
tim 'W rks real and other times
in my own personal experience
from my . pow e (who te,1 I s !\PC-
ial edubiuon) it'� Jll.l\t re<l.1ly dis
rupuve and t·tkc� tllnc away I rom
ther kids who an; the avem 'C or
n >rmal kid!\," White said.
I
college
Big
attached
tate fund
project
tring
By KRISTlNA MARLOW
C.pltal N.w. S.rvlce
's � -
will iv adaitlOna
mon y from th tate for ren vati n
and construction, but criti sy, the
approved funding' discriminate
agairst chool unable to split the
bill.
The recef}t. appropriation bill
signed by Gov. John Engler requir
colleges to pledge matchi ng fund for
capital outlay proj cts.
"We ubmitted the request two
years ago, and financially we were
in better hape ba k then," aid Bob
Rini, spoke per on for Macomb
Community College. "We're not
sure where the money will come
from. It's hard, but we knew when we
were going into it," Rini aid, "It'
just not real comfortable."
The Lcgi latur appropriated-S4.5
million for a new clas room on the
main Macomb Community Colleg
campus in Clinton Township.
Engler pok m n John Trus ott
said the tate hould not be expected
to pay for everythi ng.
" PE IALLY WH institu-
tions arbund the tate are willing to
pay," Truscott aid. "We n d om
ial
King is also concerned about
di ruption and financin , but in ad
dition, he's worried about the I k
o federal dollars being put Into
mainstrcarrung.
"AT THE TIME Tln� ( on
gross) p, d this bill back 10 the
early '70s, their g al w: to fund
about 40 percent LOr the :L� of
educating the Children," King
31U. "The elose t th 'V' ever
can be some high 'usl,
Involved depcndin J on h w mll(:h
support a <.:I1IId ncc:d�, Bu' 'hl 'r
�(tJd.
"However, when you compau: It
to the co. t of ettin uP. t he ... , IliO
gram� I don't 'know II what th'
MA '8 \ay� b always tru ' hl·l .. llJ"l'
th 'Ie arc a lot of 'pecla! l'UUl. .. llIOIl
studcnt� who can be <ll.'l'O111 llHHI.llnl
With 111101 mal "UUIII m.u ll) .... I."
13ue 'hler said.
L 'Arne r '\�'e Puhlll' Sdlooh , ....
d
With a mix
U 'nt�. 'app said. In' me ',L ... ·S � 1- '
laboraU l' tCc.,chl ng can a ·tutlll
�a e uI:-.tn�IS mon' , 'spcnally In
!\ltlUIUOlt'\ wlln a 'ht I ha� no
l·l:lv ... umtn .... pd ·C.
"It !\av's you hl' 'au c ou don',
11 'cd to hUllu ,mother hulld Illg."
Sapp ..... ud.
Flom .In Cdlll\ltlllO.11 �1.U1l1p II nt,
l'ollahorallvl' h::ll'lllng tends to
hl'll ·rlt �VCI 'un' Involvcu. advo
See SPECIAL, 83
the