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The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, September 13, 1983 - Page 5
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State proposes stricter
high school reqi
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DETROIT (UPI) - The Michigan High
School Commission yesterday ten.-
tatively recommended a longer school
year, broader course requirements and
stricter graduation requirements for all
public schools in the state.
Nineteen recommendations, based on
the commission's preliminary report,
were outlined at a news conference.
They suggested that:
* School districts require four years
of language arts, including English,
literature, writing anjl com-
munications; at least two years of
mathematics; at least two years of
science; three years of social studies
and one-half year of computer science.
. Colleges and universities
strengthen admission standards and
require that incoming students, meet
basic proficiencies in reading, writing,
mathematics and foreign languages for
*d Thestate increase the minimum
school year from 180 days and 900 hours
of cassroom instruction to 200 days and
* The State Board of Education
strengthen certification standards for
teachers and administrators, and
require participation in staff-
development programs as a condition
of certificate renewal.
The preliminar report is base on gaa
high schools, a review of a Michigan
public-opinion survey on the report of
the National Commission on Excellence
in Education and a review of data com-
paring Michigan schools and students
to others around th atin.~sta
have much to be proud of in Michigan,,
said commission chairman Willia'm
Pappas, principal of Northview High
School in Kent County. "It is evident,
though, that we have to move at the
state and local levels to ensure that our
young people are prepared for the high-
technology world which already is
rapidly changing our lives."
The 24-member commission is jointly
sponsored by the State Board of
Education and by the Michigan
Association of Secondary School Prin-
cias.
Th preliminary recommendations
will be aired in a series of public forums
in Detroit, Lansing, Grand Rapids,
Gaylord and Marquette before the
commission issues its final report and. .
recommendations to the State Board of
Education early next year.
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EPA emission tests
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LANSING (UPI) - Michigan will tell
the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency it does not need or want a
vehicle emissions testing program
when it responds to, proposed federal
punishments, Gov. James Blanchard's
*environmental aide said yesterday.
But David Dempsey said the state
nonetheless will propose alternatives to
a costly vehicle scan program designed
to meet federal requirements when it
responds this week to EPA plans to cut
off industrial permits and air pollution
control money. The administration said
as many as 10,000 jobs may be at stake.
"OUR preliminary response to them
is tht technically we're nearly in com-
*pliance" with federal pollution
1requiements, Dempsey said. '"Secon-
dly, that there are political reasons"
why Michigan should avoid such
testing.
The state was warned by the EPA
thiss summer that federal sanctions
would be imposed because Michigan
has not begun testing vehicle emissions
in Wayne, Oakland and Macomb coun-
ties.
the Legislature approved a man-
'datory testing program in 1980, but it
Phas never been implemented. It tried to
repeal the law last year.
THE GOVERNOR met with EPA
Administrator William Ruckelshaus
last month. Dempsey said the federal.'
official was "sensitive enough to realize
implementing the 1980 law is very im-
possible."
There were indications that if
Michigan had made some progress
toward implementing pollution testing
the sanctions might be avoided, Dem-
psey said.
Several options for potentially more
palatable testing programs will be
submitted to the EPA. Once the agency
responds, Dempsey said, efforts will be
made to push the revised program
through one legislative chamber this
fall, with final passage by winter's end.
OPTIONS TO be sent for EPA review
include:
* Mandating inspections every other
year.
* Allowing drivers to choose between
annual tailpipe tests or inspections to
make certain pollution controls have
not been dismantled.
* Requiring tests only when a vehicle is
sold or traded.
Even if action comes quickly "it will
be very late in 1984 or early in 1985 when
the first consumers have to take their
cars in," he said.
He estimated setting up the program
will cost up to $2 million and operating it
will require up to $4 million. Ironically,
the metropolitan Detroit region is ex-
pected to meet all pollution standards
before the 1987 deadline.
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