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CANADIAN, HEMPHILL CO., TEXAS
THURSDAY 6 JUNE 1991
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justice for even country folk, and all that come must only swear
allegiance to Miami, recognizing it as the seat of government of
the new state and as the place from which all good things and
wise words will come.’
The Empress had the answers already. "In the event the
new Constitution fails to win acceptance from the Texas
Legislature," she announced, "New Texahoma will become
a separate country and will apply immediately to the
United States of America for foreign aid. With such foreign
aid, which surely -will be forthcoming, public schools will
be funded and all property taxes for such purposes will
cease to exist."
Empress Valda has her reasons, too. "Reasoning behind all
this seeming madness," she declares "is that we here in the
Panhandle are the neglected and mistreated residents of Texas.
This was painfully brought home when the new school financing
law was passed in April. The new law demands our tax dollars
and will take them across school district and county lines to give
them to those it’s been decided have less than we do. We had not
realized before this came up that there were others who had less
than we here in Roberts County have."
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sion of the Legislature was what it did not ac-
complish. There is still no state budget for the
next two years, or any idea of how that budget
will be financed. Prison problems still plague the
state, the mental health department is facing
huge budget shortfalls and hundreds of other
problems were left unresolved.
When the record of the Legislative session is
totaled, there is no cause for backslapping or joy.
The only positive thing that can be said about
this congregation of our lawmakers is that it is
over.
About school reform
From The Washington Post
^^^CHOOL REFORM has been going very
slowly throughout the country because
there’s been no clear agreement on what the
schools are supposed to do.
The only real point of unanimity is that
everybody wants them to do it better. President
Bush’s campaign to strengthen American educa-
tion would begin by drawing much more sharply
into focus a national consensus on what children
should know and what they should be able to
accomplish. That’s the purpose of the new na-
tional tests he has now proposed.
Drawing up a test is easy. The hard part of the
job is to decide exactly what’s to be tested. But
once that’s settled, it greatly simplifies the next
question — how to teach this material more
effectively. This strategy is the work of Mr.
Bush’s new secretary of education, Lamar
Alexander, who carefully reassures states and
their school systems that the tests will be volun-
tary and the federal government won’t impose
them on jurisdictions that resist. But he also
points out that the test results will not only tell
parents how well their children are learning but
how their schools, their states and the country as
a whole are progressing as well.
You will now hear impassioned protests that
this kind of testing means a uniform national
curriculum and teachers who teach to the test.
But there’s already something very close to a
national curriculum imposed by the publishers
of textbooks, and it’s manifestly not satisfactory.
And if the tests accurately reflect national stand-
ards, why not teach to them? Teachers already
do it for the bright college-bound students taking
advanced placement courses, and it works very
well there. Secretary Alexander is on to an idea
that needs to be vigorously pursued.
The most delicate and hazardous part of this
strategy is the plan to establish new and radical-
ly more effective schools — at least one in each
congressional district, that would give parents a
choice for their children. This concept is far from
clear in the brief descriptions Mr. Bush and the
Education Department have provided so far.
Some would apparently be private schools and
outside the conventional public school systems.
Since they are to be designed in some part by the
communities they serve, they would vary great-
ly. But despite all the obvious risks, this depar-
ture also deserves to be explored. Many school
systems are clearly not capable of much reform
from within. To develop successful models inde-
pendently — in effect, in competition with the
neighboring public schools, may be the only way
to get rapid change in the right direction.
Precisely because it promises to force change,
President Bush’s plan threatens bureaucratic
and political interests all over the country. It will
go nowhere without close and continual atten-
tion from the president himself.
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Ezzell, Ben & Ezzell, Nancy. The Canadian Record (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 101, No. 23, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 6, 1991, newspaper, June 6, 1991; Canadian, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth736752/m1/4/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Hemphill County Library.