Mayor 0 nnl. Archer (cent r) recently hid br ak ground for Wayn Stat Unlver.Ity'. n w
28 million graduat .tudent ap rtment complex that will built tw n Ca • and
Woodward, Ju t .outh of Fore.t. H Iplng the mayor with hi. ceremonial dutle. are (from left)
rend cott, L on Atchllon and Oenl. L wi., members of th WSU Bo rd of Qovernore;
Lynn ch fer, W U vice pre.ldent for admlnlstratlv •• rvlc .: and W U Pr .Ident David
Ad many.
By RON SEIGEL
Mlchlg n Citizen
HIGHLAND PARK - During
the ion for citizen participa­
tion at the Tuesday, June 14
meeting of the Highland Park
School Board, parents expressed
concern that they were not being
informed about a number of is­
sues important to them.
Donna Williams said she
wanted the school administra­
tion to send parents information
before the' end of July about cut
backs it was making in services
like counseling, because of
V • T T G
r 1995 th DSS will
m ke th ial contract manda­
tory and at that tim money for
t po tion ill in th
bud t, hid.
'''We will not move forw rd at
that time ithout money for
t po tion," Mill id. -It
p - will be in th bud t. -
"TRANSPORTATIO IS
tough' ue becau we have one
of th worst ystems in the met­
ropolitan are in the country,"
SCHOOL BOARD PRE I- Miller id. "If you live in Detroit
DENT Mamie Cooper sug- you have to lly work to go to
gested part of the problem was work."
that officials at different schools Miller said DSS is working
did not answer .parent' tele- with The Department of Trans-
phon calls. portation and Detroit Mayor
John Stindt, Assistant Super- Dennis Archer on a number of
intendent of Educational Ac- projects to provide alternative
countability and Technical forms of transportation to recipi-
Support, id th school et a ants.
deadlin of handing out infor- Philip Kazmierski, deputy di-
mation on r ignments with rector for the bureau of urban
the report rds on Thursday, and public transportation, said
.June 16. "We are trying hard to they are currently looking at ex-
m t th deadline," he said. panding the Smart System and
Another parent, Ruby Olong, dial-a-ride services.
aid parents were not told about Smart System is a state-
holidays where their children funded service that provides
�11��I�=�ld��=�=:�l.=���: tion to ou county
1Il@II". II!' for w re re-
o ving in metropolitan
Buprem nomin e a moderate
supporter of civil rights
BOSTO , • - Judge Stephen G. Breyer - President
Clinton's nominee to fill the vacant seat on the U.S: Supreme'
Court - has a record of generally supporting civil rights.
However, his record h inconsistencies.
For example, he helped tablish a right to a jury trial in
civil rights cas but has joined in decisions which make it more
difficult for plaintiffs to prove discrimination. He has voted in
favor of affirmative action programs which benefit minorities
but he approved a Boston redistricting plan which some civil
rights lawyers said reduced minority voting power.
If confirmed by the U.S. Senate - which appears likely -
Breyer' to ne 1 te . . 0 'vi riga
related' u u may no 1 issu favored by civil
rif'h . ��'J ! J' S .10 U_JH'1' 'Jl<l:_; \ l .. ' .' 1" 1
budget cuts.
"If there's a money problem,"
she said, "we want to ee it."
That way, she suggested, when
parents come to chool board
meetings, "it won't look like
we're complaining, complaining,
complaining. We'll have om
questions and we'll ha v om
answers." .
Brenda McFail, par nt nd
school crossing guard, said sh
was constantly being asked by
parents whether their young­
sters were being r ign d to
another school.
score
By RON SEI�EL
MlchlR.n Citizen
HIGHLAND PARK - In one
story, a man declared, "I'm not
where I want to be, I'm not
where I ought to be, but ... Oh,
thank God ... I'm not where I
was."
The same thing could be said
about test scores of Highland
Park graduating seniors.
In order to have diplomas en­
dorsed by the state, seniors must
pass state assessment tests in
reading, science, and math,
- 43 percent of the students -
71 out of a class size of 165 -
passed all three tests and got a
fully endorsed diploma in all ar­
eas. This, however, was up from
a rate of 19 percent last year.
22 percent failed in all three
areas - a decrease from the 27
percent rate last year. Ob­
servers suggest that the reason
for the.rise in scores was a policy
Superintendent Eugene Cain of
Transportation
reassessment
concern
.parents
By RON SEIGEL
Mlchlg.n Citizen
HIGHLAND PARK - Because
of budget problems, Highland
Park School Superintendent
Eugene Cain said the chool dis­
trict was reassessing how it
would provide transportation to
the different schools.
At the Tuesday, June 14
school board meeting, Valarie
Green said that the school sys­
tem was responsible for the
problem, because it redistricted
students to chools that wer
furth r away.
School board member Anita
Waterhouse aid, "It's cold his
winter." .
Cain said there wer no plans -
to eliminate bu ing, but imply
a d ire to study how i could
done. He s id among the hing
the hool board was doing was
looking into ible grants from
foundations.
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Greg Byndrian of the school
administration's information of­
fice said the schools were sent
notices of the closings ten days
before they happened.
He expressed regret that par­
ents "did not get their hands on"
the notices sooner. .
•
Improve
getting each hool to ev lu te
its procedures and come up with
ways to improve student per­
formance.
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