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. • aln p 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 rermal 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