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September 26, 1991
A
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
THROUGH:
DAVE DEMAREST
TONY SNOW
FROM:
DAN MC GROARTY
SUBJECT:
BACK TO SCHOOL ADDRESS
I. SUMMARY
At 12:00 noon, on Tuesday, October 1, you will deliver the
Back to School Address. Your immediate audience at Alice Deal
Junior High is Mrs. Mosteller's class of 28 Eight Graders. The
extended audience is a nationwide audience of Eighth through
Twelfth Graders, watching via PBS and other stations.
II. DISCUSSION
Your trip into the classroom underscores the student's
central place in the overall education strategy. You will talk
to the students, rather than simply about them. This is not a
speech heavy on policy. You mention the "national report card"
in the context of a challenge to today's students, rather than a
status report on the state of our schools. Your message focuses
on taking control, and encouraging responsibility. You ask
students to confront their futures -- to face the very real
prospect of dropping out, using drugs and to seize every
educational advantage open to them.
September 26, 1991
MEMORANDUM FOR DAVID DEMAREST
THROUGH:
DAN McGROARTY
FROM:
JEANNIE BUNTON
SUBJECT:
BACK TO SCHOOL ADDRESS
I. SUMMARY
At noon on Tuesday, October 1, the President's Back to
School Address will be delivered to an immediate classroom
audience of 25 Alice Deal Junior High School eigth graders and an
extended audience of thousands of eighth through twelth graders
across the nation.
II. DISCUSSION
The President's conversational remarks, delivered the day of
Alice Deal's "Back to School Night", will present students with
the issues of personal choice and responsibility, rather than a
litany of policy.
In broader attempts to get out the education message,
previous speeches about education generally addressed parents,
businesses, communities and other members of the teaching
establishment. This is an opportunity to talk with students --
the objects of all this attention.
The remarks mention the National Report Card in an attempt
to create a sense of challenge - for students to rise to the
occassion, now. Those Alice Deal eight graders graduate in less
than 5 years, 1996. Students in the larger audience graduate
even sooner.
In a very warm tone, President Bush will reach these
students with the message that personal responsibility begins
today, and today's decisions effect the rest of their lives. [So
get a grip dude.]
SEP-25-1991 10:20 FROM SECRETARY of EDUCATION
TO
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P.02
STATEMENT OF
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
UNITED STATES of AMERICA
THE SECRETARY
September 25, 1991
MEMORANDUM TO TONY SNOW
FROM:
LAMAR ALEXANDER
SUBJECT:
THE PRESIDENT'S OCTOBER 1 SPEECH
For the President's speech to kids on October 1, the point
of the speech should be: "I'm asking you to help your school
adopt the six national education goals."
Could give a little history lesson about where the
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goals came from, taking them one by one
And why it is important to have them, using examples
Talk about making a living and making a life as well
Growing up and living successfully in the whole world
Say a nice word about the teachers
And the importance of parents
Refer to the "National Report Card" that the Governors
put out yesterday (September 30) which shows that you
read a little better than your parents and know a
little more math than your parents but that also shows
that five of six of you don't know enough math to live
and work in the world the way you want to. The kind of
math we are talking about means the kind of math you
need to work at the auto plant, to understand why that
telescope is out there in space, to decide for yourself
whether the nuclear power plant is safe; the kind of
math you need to know to get into college.
Of course, with children, the more examples and stories
the better.
It's also good to talk to them about things and people
they know about; how hard Michael Jordan and Cal Ripken
practice to achieve their records.
cc: Leslye Arsht
ann MARYI AND AVE., S.W. WASHINGTON. D.O. 30208-0100
Deaminer
F41.
September 26, 1991
MEMORANDUM FOR DAVID DEMAREST
changed
FROM:
DAN MC GROARTY
again
SUBJECT:
OCTOBER 1 EDUCATION SPEECH
I. EVENT
The President's immediate audience at Alice Deal Junior High
is Mrs. Mosteller's class of 28 Eighth Graders. The extended
audience for the 12:00 noon speech is a nationwide audience of
Eighth through Twelfth Graders, watching via PBS and other
stations.
II. OBJECTIVE
As part of our broader effort to promote America 2000, we
have sought to take our message not simply to the education
establishment, parents and teachers, but to business leaders,
states and local communities (as in the speech at Lewiston High).
The October 1 speech at Alice Deal Junior High provides an
important opportunity to take our message to the nation's
students -- the objects of all this attention.
The President's trip into the classroom underscores the
student's central place in our overall education strategy. This
event allows the President a chance to connect with students -- a
chance to talk to students, rather than simply talking about
them.
By design, therefore, this is not a speech heavy on
"policy." The President mentions the "national report card"
released on September 30, but more in the context of a challenge
to today's students than a status report on the state of our
schools.
The Eighth Graders that the President speaks to are members
of the Class of 1996; many of the students watching on TV will
graduate even earlier. For these students, our goals for the
year 2000 are not as relevant as practical advice on how make the
school experience count right now.
For this reason, the President's plain-spoken message
focuses on taking control -- encouraging an ethic of
responsibility for students old enough to ask more of themselves.
The President asks the students to confront their future -- to
face the very real prospect of dropping out, using drugs, etc.
and to seize every educational advantage open to them.
# # #
Prob. 7:30 pm
McGroarty/Bunton
September 27, 1991
[SCHOOL.TS]
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: ALICE DEAL JR. HIGH, WASHINGTON, D.C.
OCTOBER 1, 1991
Thank you, Mrs. I Mostoller [MOSS-tah-ler], for allowing me to
12:10 P.M.
visit your classroom today. [[TO STUDENTS] And let me thank all
of you for letting millions of students in classrooms all across
the country tune in to hear what I'm about to say.
You know, long before I became President, I was a parent. I
remember the times my kids came up with a really tough question,
or a difficult decision. I tried my best never to shut them down
with a quick "No." I would simply say those three magic words
that made that problem disappear: "Ask your Mother." //
No parent's perfect. Especially when you're in your teens -
- and your parents hit that awkward age. //
Let me tell you why I've made the trip up from the White
House to Alice Deal Junior High. I'm not here to teach a lesson
-- to tell you what to do, or what to think. Maybe you're
accustomed to adults talking about you and at you -- well, today,
I'm here to talk to you: about why what you do today -- and what
you don't do -- can change your future. //
Every day, we hear more bad news about our schools. Maybe
you saw today's headline about the release of the new National
Goals Report. [[HOLD UP PAPER OR NEWS CLIP.] In math, for
instance, this "national report card" shows that, nationwide,
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five of six Eighth Graders don't know the math they need to move
up to the Ninth Grade.
In spite of troubling statistics like this one, I don't see
this report as just bad news -- and I'll tell you why. This
report card tells us a lot about what you know, and what you
don't know. It gives us something to build on. It shows us our
strengths -- and the weaknesses we've got to correct. It sets
forth a challenge to all of us: work harder, learn more --
revolutionize American education.
I know you've heard about "stanines" and percentiles,
surveys and statistics, but here's what all the fancy talk means:
Education means the difference between a good future and a lousy
one. Reports don't give us the right to make excuses. Our
scores tell us where we are -- and where we need to go.
All over America, schools succeed -- even against all odds.
Kids from all over the District of Columbia petition to get into
Alice Deal -- because parents know this school works. It works
because of teachers like Mrs. Mostoller, who decided at the age
x
of 25 she wanted to teach. She was standing in a supermarket
checkout line when she saw a magazine ad about college. She went
back, worked her way through school in seven years, waiting
tables to pay tuition. She made it -- and so can you. //
This school works because of students like the ones with me
today -- students like Rachel Rusch [RUSH], a member of Alice
Deal's award-winning "Math Counts" team. Rachel and six others
kids in this class alone have taken part in the Johns Hopkins
3
Talent Search: You took the college-entrance exams on an
experimental basis last year as 7th Graders. Even in junior
high, some of you scored well enough to get into college right
now. // So let's just put it on the line. You've got the
brains. Now you must put them to work.
Progress starts when we ask more -- of ourselves, our
schools, and yes you, our students. We made a start by setting
six National Education Goals to meet the challenges of the 21st
Century. By the year 2000, at least nine in every ten students
should graduate from high school. We should be first in the
world in math and science. Every American child should start
school ready to learn; every American adult should be literate -
- and every American school should be safe and drug-free.
Reaching those goals is the aim of a strategy I call America 2000
-- a crusade to transform American education school by school,
community by community. //
But today, I want to speak to you not about programs or
policies -- but about your future; about the real world rushing
up to meet you in the few short years before you graduate from
high school.
Fast-forward five years from now. Unless things change,
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between now and 1996 as many as one in five of today's 8th
Graders will not graduate with their class. In some cities, the
drop out rate is twice that high or higher. Imagine: Out of a
total of nearly 3 million of your fellow classmates nationwide,
an army of more than half-a-million dropouts.
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I ask every student watching today: look around you. Count
five students -- start with yourself. No one dreams of becoming
a dropout, but far too many do. Which one of you won't make it?
// The fact is, everyone of you can. // Let's make a pact
right here. Let's work to see that five years from now, you and
your friends will be more than sad statistics. Give yourself a
decent shot at your dreams. Stay in school. Get that diploma.
Let's go back to the future. In the fall of 1996, nearly
half of today's eighth Graders who get their diplomas will enter
the working world. More than half the graduates will stay in
school -- and become the college class of the year 2000.
The question each student watching today should ask is:
Where will I be five years from now? Will I be holding down a
good job and working toward a better one -- or will I be out of
school and out of work? Will I be on a college campus -- or out
running the streets?
Think about that tonight -- when you're at the kitchen table
doing homework; while your parents are coming here to Alice Deal
to meet your teachers -- like so many millions do this time of
year at Back to School Nights across America.
I'm asking you to put two and two together: Make the
connection -- between the homework you do tonight -- the test you
take tomorrow -- and where you'll be five, fifteen and fifty
years from now. You see, the real world doesn't begin somewhere
else, and some time in the distant future. The real world starts
5
right here. What you do here will have consequences your whole
lives.
Let me tell you something many of you may find hard to
believe. You're in control. [[You're thinking: How can the
President say that about kids like us who don't even have their
drivers' licenses?]] But think about it, and you'll see what I
mean.
Think about drugs. You see films. You hear police experts
and tough speakers from the outside. You get stern lectures from
everyone -- movie stars, athletes, teachers, parents, friends.
But you know and I know that all the drug prevention
programs -- all the pledges -- all the preaching in the world
won't pull you through that critical moment when someone offers
drugs. At that moment, everything comes down to you. Yes or No:
You've got to choose, and the answer will change your life. Your
parents won't make the decision. Your teachers won't make the
decision. Your friends won't make the decision. It's up to you:
It takes guts to take control. //
Studies show a decline in drug use -- and every student who
draws the line against drugs deserves credit for that. / But
drugs and violence continue to threaten every school, every small
town and suburb in America. As students, you have a right to be
physically safe at school. You should never have to worry that a
quarrel in the hallway will lead to a gunfight in the playground.
You shouldn't have to fear for your life if you criticize someone
6
who wears a beeper in class. Fear should never follow you into
the classroom. //
If you have to take the long way home after school so you
don't cross paths with the gang hanging on the corner, if
outsiders roam the halls of your school hassling students, you
must take control. Go to your teacher, go to your principal, go
to your parents -- as difficult as it may be, go to the school
board if you have to. Demand discipline. If good people chicken
out, bad people take control. So let's drive the drugs and guns
and senseless violence out of our schools. //
When it comes to your own education: take control. Don't
say school is boring, and blame it on your teachers. Make your
teachers work hard. Tell them you want a first-class education.
Tell them you're here to learn.
Block out the kids who think it's not cool to be smart. I
can't understand for the life of me what's so great about being
stupid. If someone goofs off today, they're cool. But what
about years from now, when they're stuck in a dead-end job?
Don't let peer pressure stand between you and your dreams.
Take control -- challenge yourself. Only you know how hard
you work. Maybe you can fake your way into a job -- but you
&
won't keep for long it if you don't have the know-how to get the
job done. Maybe you can cram the week before the marking period
ends, and turn that C into a B. But you can't con your way past
the SAT and into college. / If you don't work hard -- who gets
hurt? If you cheat -- who pays the price? If you cut corners,
7
if you hunt for the easy A -- who comes up short? Easy: You do.
You're in control -- but you're not alone. People want to
help you succeed. Here at Deal, teachers like Mrs. Mostoller --
from your principal, Mr. Moss, to your custodian, Mr. Francis. /
Right now in classrooms across this country -- in the communities
home?
you call -- no matter how bleak, no matter how empty things
sometimes seem -- there's a teacher, a parent, a friend or family
member ready to help you. They want to see you make it.
If you take school seriously, you won't have to settle for a
job -- any job. You'll have a career. If you make it your
business to learn, one day you'll be a better parent. You may
not think about it now, but one day your children will want to
look up at you and say, "I've got the smartest Mom and Dad in the
world." Don't you disappoint them.
But most of all, if you educate yourself, you'll enjoy life.
You'll have what it takes to make a difference in the world -- to
be a part of something bigger than yourself. Look around you.
Ask yourself who gets the most enjoyment out of life -- it's the
people who live to learn. //
Let me leave you with a simple message: Every time you walk
through that classroom door, make it your mission to get a good
education. Don't do it just because your parents -- or even this
President -- tells you. Do it for yourselves. Do it for your
future. //
Thank you -- and good luck to every one of you this school
year. // And now, Mrs. Mostoller, back to your lesson.
#*#
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I was born in a small town in Northern Ohio and spent my first 22 years in a
house my father built on a riverbed corner of the family farm. We finally
got indoor plumbing the year I was 15.
I was a good student and always loved the atmosphere of school and books, but
no one ever told me a smart girl could go to college without family resources.
I discovered that at 24. By 24, I was married and living on a rented farm.
My husband rode broncos and bulls in rodeos; I waited tables three nights a
week. I decided to go to college on a whim. I stood in a grocery store check-
outline sifting through a magazine when I came across an article about adults
who returned to get an education. According to the article, students over 21
didn't need SAT scores to apply. That was me, and three weeks later, I
enrolled in my first three courses at the University of Akron.
My original major was Education, and I thought in the back of my mind that
teaching would be a good job. The professors at the University, however,
discouraged me from majoring in Education. They told me the job market was
bleak, that teachers were poorly paid and the working conditions were bad.
I listened to them and changed my major to History. From the first semester
on, there was never a doubt I would finish my education and work with history.
My college transcript is a document of my success. I earned nearly straight "A's"
from the beginning and finished my B.A. with a 3.69. I was tapped into the
senior honors society and graduated one of the top 16 students in a class of
more than a thousand.
In the meantime, my marriage broke up and I supported myself through waiting
tables at nights and week-ends and living from student loans. I made a lot
of sacrifices, and I lost a lot of personal security, but I felt strong and
sure in my commitment to school. I was the happiest person I knew.
I went on to study in graduate courses in History and again, I earned nearly
all "A's." In fact, I think I only earned one "B" in more than 40 hours of
work. I moved to Washington, D.C. before finishing a thesis or exams, how-
ever. I regret leaving that work unfinished.
I made the move to D.C. when I was 32. I came here to take a job with a dis-
armament project. When that job dried up for lack of funds, I returned to
waiting tables, and I submitted my application to the D.C. schools. I wasn't
trained as a teacher in the formal sense, but my love of education and my
interest in history had never waivered. I saw teaching as a natural outgrowth
of my own enthusiasm for learning.
The process of becoming certified is cumbersome and I didn't get called for
an interview with the D.C. Schools for nearly five months. I had decided to
return to Ohio the very week Mr. Moss called me from Deal and asked me to
come meet him. That phone call changed my life.
I love my work. For six years now I have walked into the front door of Deal
Junior High School, usually one hour early-sometimes even more--and every
single day I am excited about something I plan to do or some new idea I have
about getting the students interested in learning. I feel more pride and more
satisfaction about teaching than I ever dreamed possible, and I maintain with
all of my heart that it is the most rewarding challenge of my life.
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I am glad I am a teacher. I boast to everyone who will listen to me about my
wonderful job and the kids with whom I work every day. I always tell them that
their text book is their best friend, and a day without history class is like
a day without sunshine. By the end of the year, even the most skeptical of them
believe me. Well, at least most of them do, and most is a lot when I have over
125 kids every day!
Becoming a teacher has cost me a lot of money. I borrowed over $15,000 to cover
my education costs. For the first five years of teaching, I worked two nights
a week as a waitress to help pay back the $200.00 a month student loans. Only
now, after finishing five full years, have I reached a step on the salary
scale for teachers that enabled me to stop working part-time and to devote my
full energies to teaching. I teach five classes of American History each day
to 128 students total, I take care of a homeroom with 28 more, and I am co-
advisor to our student council. I still have to pay those student loans every
month, and every month, when I write the check I ask myself if it is worth it.
And every month I decide "you bet it is."
Dupe this is
Jain
Course = H153 Section = 1
Title: AMER HIST 8 (TEAM)
Printed on 26-SEP-91
Term: 1
Page: 1
Teacher (s): (33) MOSTOLLER, CYNTHIA
Homeroom: 112
Room(s) : (13) 112
Schedule : M-F3
Ref Grade
Name
Homeroom
1031 08.BAUDER, MICHELLE
8302
1190 08.BRAWLEY, JADE L
8203
418 08.BREUL, HANNAH P
8122 BRU-EL
695 08.BROWN, SHARISE
8126
1374 V08.CROTHERS-PATTERSON, TOBB222
1378 08.DAVIS, ELEANOR A
8222
789 08.DeANNA, JOHN-PAUL
8109
1268 08.ELKINS, CARA
8213
573 08.ELLIOTT, PETER K.
8213
410 08.FELLUSS, JESSE E
8302
359 08.FREEMAN, APRIL P
8324
495 08.GOLASH, KATRINA
8302
Air
1240 08.GOULD, RISHAWNA L
8126
562 08.GREEN, III THOMAS R
8122
1022 08.HENDERSON, RHONDA E
8304
775 08.JACXSENS, EILEEN M
8126 JACKSON'S
1413 08.JENKINS, ALEACIA L
8222
494 08.KLEIN, SARAH K
8302
331 08.LEAR, VALERIE J
8126
407 08.LIPPMAN, STEVEN C
8203
782 08.NOBLE, JACOB M
8304
/
398 v08.RUSCH, RACHEL M
8122 RUSH
Acso: MATH
522 V08.SCHACHT, ERIC P
640 08.SPELLMAN, KAJI
8204 8109 PRONOUNCE THE CHT (SHAT)
COUNTS
395 VOB.TANNER, PATRICK G
8222
1414 08.WATKINS, NYALA K
8213
767 08.WIEBENSON, SAMUEL
8222
1091 08.WILSON, ANDREA N.
8324
988 08.ZEWOLDI, SIRAK
8213
Total students: 29
Total males : 11
Total females : 18
From Mr. Moss ris htdown
to yr. constolian Mr. Francis.
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
September 27, 1991
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
THROUGH:
DAVE DEMAREST
TONY SNOW
FROM:
DAN MC GROARTY
SUBJECT:
BACK TO SCHOOL ADDRESS
I. SUMMARY
At 12:00 noon, on Tuesday, October 1, you will deliver the
Back to School Address. Your immediate audience at Alice Deal
Junior High is Mrs. Mosteller's class of 28 Eight Graders. The
extended audience is a nationwide audience of Eighth through
Twelfth Graders, watching via PBS and other stations.
II. DISCUSSION
Your trip into the classroom underscores the student's
central place in the overall education strategy. You will talk
to the students, rather than simply about them. This is not a
speech heavy on policy You mention the "national report card"
students
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Office of Educational
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Research and Improvement
UNITED STATES of AMERICA
Date: 10/1/91
To: me Jesme Bunton, The White House
From: W. Vance thant, Education diformation Brandi
Number of pages transmitted (Includes cover
sheet): 4
If you did not receive the complete transmission,
please call 219-1659
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'91
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Table 94.--High school graduates compared with population 17 years of age:
1869-70 to 1990.91
[Numbers in thousands)
Population
High school graduates
Graduates as
17 years
a percent of
oldi/
Sex
Control
17-year-old
School year
population
Total2/
Male
Female
Publics/
Private4/
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
1869-70
815
16
7
9
2.0
1879-80
946
24
11
13
2.5
1889-90
1,259
44
19
25
22
22
3.5
1899-1900
1,489
95
38
57
62
33
6.4
1909-10
1,786
156
64
93
111
45
8.8
1919-20
1,853
311
124
186
231
80
16.8
1929-30
2,296
667
300
367
592
75
29.0
1939-40
2,403
1,221
579
643
1,143
78
50.8
1947.48
2,261
1,190
563
627
1,073
117
52.6
1949-50
2,054
1,200
571
629
1,063
136
59.0
1951-52
2,086
1,197
509
627
1,056
141
57.4
1953-54
2,135
1,276
613
664
1,129
147
59.8
1955-56
2,242
1,415
680
735
1,252
163
63.1
1956.57
2,272
1,434
690
744
1,270
164
63.1
1957-58
2,325
1,506
725
781
1,332
174
64.8
1958.59
2,458
1,627
784
843
1,435
192
66.2
1959-60
2,672
1,858
895
963
1,627
231
69.5
1960-61
2,892
1,964
959
1,009
1,725
259
67.9
1961-62
2,768
1,918
936
980
1,678
240
69.3
1962-63
2,740
1,943
956
987
1,710
233
70.9
1963-64
2,978
2,283
1,120
1.163
2.008
275
76.7
1964-65
3,684
2,658
1,311
1,347
2,360
298
72.1
1965-66
3,489
2,665
1,323
1,342
2,367
298
76.4
1966-67
3,500
2,672
1,328
1,344
2,374
298
76.3
1967-68
3,532
2,695
1,338
1,357
2,395
300
76.3
1968-69
3,659
2,822
1,399
1,423
2,522
300
77.1
1969-70
3.757
2,889
1,430
1,459
2.589
300
76.9
1970-71
3,872
2,937
1,454
1,483
2,637
300
75.9
1971-72
3,975
3,001
1,487
1,514
2,699
302
75.5
1972-75
4,049
3,036
1,500
1,536
2,730
306
75.0
1973-74
4,132
3,073
1,512
1,561
2,763
310
74.4
1974-75
4,256
3,133
1,542
1,591
2,823
310
73.6
1975-76
4,272
3,148
1,552
1,596
2,837
311
73.7
1976-77
4,272
3,155
1,548
1,607
2,840
315
73.9
1977-78
4,286
3,127
1,531
1,596
2,825
302
73.0
1978-79
4,327
3,117
1,523
1,594
2,817
300
72.0
1979-80
4,262
3,043
1,491
1,552
2,748
295
71.4
1980-81
4,207
3,020
1,483
1,537
2,725
295
71.8
1981-82
4,121
2,995
1,471
1,524
2,705
290
72.7
1982-83
3,939
2,888
1,437
1,451
2,598
290
73.3
1983.84
3,753
2,767
2,495
272
73.7
1984-85
3,658
2,677
2,414
263
73.2
1985-86 61
3,621
2,643
2,383
260
73.0
1986-87 61
3,697
2,694
2,429
265
72.9
1987-88
3,781
2,801
2,773
2,500
304
2/13
74.4 73.3
1988-89 5/
3,761
2,708 2,724
2,456
324-
268
73.9 72.4
1989-90 6/
3,485
2,626,592
2,324
302
268
75.4 74.4
1990-91 61
3,325
2,345 4,465
2,253
2,210
390-
255
76.5
74.1
1/Derived from Current Population Reports, Series P-25.
2/Includes graduates of public and private schools.
3/Data for 1929-30 and preceding years are from Statistics of Public High Schools and
exclude graduates of high schools which failed to report to the Office of Education.
4/For most years, private school data have been estimated based on periodic private
school surveys. For years through 1957-58, private includes data for subcollegiate
departments of institutions of higher education and residential schools for exceptional
children.
5/Date have been revised from previously published figures.
6/Estimated.
--Date not available.
NOTE.-Includes graduates of regular day school programs. Excludes graduates of other
programs. when separately reported. and recipients of high school equivalency certificates.
OCT 1 '91 8:54
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NUMBER OF GRADUATES FROM PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOLS
COMPARED WITH NINTH GRADE ENROLLMENT FOUR YEARS
EARLIER: UNITED STATES, 1939-40 TO 1988-89
[Numbers in Thousands)
School
High School
9th Grade En-
Graduates as %
Year
Graduates
rollment Four
of 9th Grade
Years Earlier
Enrollment
1939-40
1,143
1,975
57.9
1941-42
1,161
1,995
58.2
1943-44
953
2,034
46.9
1945-46
974
1,898
51.3
1947-48
1,073
1,743
61.6
1949-50
1,063
1,761
60.4
1951-52
1,056
1,709
61.8
1953-54
1,129
1,781
63.4
1955-56
1,252
1,861
67.3
1957-58
1,332
2,028
65.7
1959-60
1,627
2,368
68.7
1960-61
1,726
2,480
69.6
1961-62
1,678
2,412
69.6
1962-63
1,711
2,412
70.9
1963-64
2,008
2,750
73.0
1964-65
2,355
3,156
74.6
1965-66
2,327
3,051
76.3
1966-67
2,374
3,080
77.1
1967-68
2,395
3,087
77.6
1968-69
2,522
3,215
78.5
1969-70
2,589
3,314
78.1
1970-71
2,637
3,390
77.8
1971-72
2,699
3,508
76.9
1972-73
2,730
3,568
76.5
1973-74
2,763
3,652
75.7
1974-75
2,823
3,781
74.7
1975-76
2,837
3,779
75.1
1976-77
2,840
3,801
74.7
1977-78
2,825
3,832
73.7
1978-79
2,817
3,879
72.6
1979-80
2,748
3,823
71.9
1980-81
2,725
3,779
72.1
1981-82
2,705
3,726
72.6
1982-83
2,598
3,516
73.9
1983-84
2,495
3,380
73.8
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number 7 graduater from public high schools compared with
with grode enrollment four years earlier
School
Highert
9 # note
Graduatic as
year
groductor
4 years carbins
7. individual
1984-85
2,414
3,290
73.4
1985-86
2,383
3,248
73.3
1986-87
2,429
3,330
72.9
1987-88
2,500
3,440
72.7
1988-89
2,456
3,439
71.4
NOTE:
Beginning with the graduating class of 1965-66,
percentages are based on fall enrollment and
exclude ungraded pupils. The net effect of these
changes is to increase graduation rates slightly.
SOURCES:
Statistics of State School Systems; Fall Statistics
of Public Schools; and Digest of Education
Statistics.
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
October 1, 1991
REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT
IN NATIONAL EDUCATION ADDRESS
Alice Deal Junior High School
Washington, D.C.
12:15 P.M. EDT
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you, Ms. Mostoller, and thanks for
allowing me to visit your classroom to talk to you and all
these students, and millions more in classrooms all across the
country.
You know, long before I became President I was a parent.
I remember the times that my kids came up with a really tough
question or a difficult decision. I tried my best never to shut them
down with a quick" no." I would simply say those three magic words
that made that problem disappear: "Ask your Mother." (Laughter.)
Let me tell you why I've made the trip up from the White
House to Alice Deal Junior High. I'm not here to teach a lesson.
You already have a very good teacher. I'm not here to tell you what
to do or what to think. Maybe you're accustomed to adults talking
about you and at you -- well, today, I'm here to talk to you and
challenge you. Education matters, and what you do today, and what
you don't do can change your future.
Every day, we hear more bad news about our schools.
Maybe you saw today's headline -- I don't know if you had a chance to
look at it -- about the release of the new National Goals Report.
Get the camera to come in and take a look at this for a moment. In
math, for instance, this national report card shows that, nationwide,
five of six 8th graders don't know the math they need to move up to
the 9th grade.
In spite of troubling statistics like this one, I don't
see this report, however, as just bad news, and I'll tell you why.
This report tells us a lot about what you know and what you don't
know. It gives us something to build on. It shows us our strengths
and the weaknesses that we've got to correct. It sets forth a
challenge to all of us: Work harder, learn more, revolutionize
American education.
I know you've heard about stanines and percentiles,
surveys and statistics, but here's what all that fancy talk really
means: Education means the difference between a good future and a
lousy one. Reports don't give us the right to make excuses. Our
scores will tell us where we are and where we need to go.
I mentioned earlier the bad news we hear about schools
today. But what we don't hear enough about are the success stories.
You know, all over America, thousands of schools do succeed, even
against tough odds, even against all odds. Kids from all over the
District of Columbia petition to get into Alice Deal School here
because parents know this school works. It works because of teachers
like the one standing over here, Ms. Mostoller, who decided at the
age of 25 -- maybe you all know this, but a lot of people around the
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see, the real world doesn't begin somewhere else, some time way down
there in the distant future. The real world starts right here. What
you do here will have consequences for your whole lives.
Let me tell you something many of you may find very
hard to believe this. You're in control. You're thinking: How can
the President say that about kids like us when we don't even have our
driver's license? But think about it, and you'll see what I mean.
Think about drugs. You see films. You hear police
experts and tough speakers from the outside. You get stern lectures
from everyone -- movie stars, athletes, teachers, parents, friends.
But you know and I know that all the drug prevention programs, all
the pledges, all the preaching in the world won't pull you through
that critical moment when someone offers drugs. At that moment,
everything comes down to you. Yes or no -- you've got to choose, and
the answer will change your life. Your parents won't make the
decision. Your teachers won't make the decision. Your friends won't
make the decision. It's up to you. It takes guts to take control.
A sound body and a sound mind -- they go together -- as
my friend -- and he is a friend Arnold Schwarzenegger says. He's
crossing the nation talking with students about the importance of
fitness. And real fitness means no drugs.
Studies show a decline in drug use -- and that's good,
that's encouraging, I think. And every student who draws the line
against drugs really deserves credit for that. But drugs and
violence continue to threaten every school, every small town and
suburb in America. And as students, you have a right to be
physically safe at school. You should never have to worry that a
quarrel in the hallway will lead to gunfire in the playground. Fear
should never follow you into the classroom.
If you have to take the long way home after school so
you don't cross paths with the gang hanging on the corner, if
outsiders roam the halls of your school hassling kids, hassling
students, you must take control. Go to your teacher, or go to your
principal, or go to your parents -- as difficult as it may be, go to
the school board if you have to. Demand discipline. If good people
chicken out, bad people take control. Together, we can -- I really
believe this -- we can drive the drugs and guns and senseless
violence out of our schools.
When it comes to your own education, what I'm saying is
take control. Don't say school is boring and blame it on your
teachers. Make your teachers work hard. Tell them you want a first-
class education. Tell them that you're here to learn.
Block out the kids who think it's not cool to be smart.
I can't understand for the life of me what's so great about being
stupid. If someone goofs off today, are they cool? Are they still
cool years from now when they're stuck in a dead-end job? Don't let
peer pressure stand between you and your dreams.
Take control challenge yourself. Only you know how
hard you work. Maybe you can fake -- maybe, just maybe you can fake
your way into a job -- but you won't keep it for long if you don't
have the know-how to get the job done. Maybe you can cram the week
before that marking period ends, and turn that C into a B. But you
can't con your way past the SAT and into college. If you don't work
hard, who gets hurt? If you cheat, who pays the price? If you cut
corners, if you hunt for the easy A, who comes up short? Easy answer
to that one: You do.
You're in control -- but you are not alone. People
want you to succeed. They want to help you succeed. Here at Deal,
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country don't -- she decided at the age of 25 that she wanted to
teach. She was standing in a supermarket checkout line when she saw
a magazine ad about college. She went back to school, worked her way
through in seven years, waiting tables to pay tuition. She made it,
and so can you.
This school here works because of students like the ones
with me today students like Rachel Rusch -- where's Rachel? Right
there, okay a member of Alice Deal's award-winning "Math Counts"
team. Rachel, you tell me if I'm wrong, but you and six other
students in this class alone have taken part in the Johns Hopkins
Talent Search. They took the college entrance exams on an
experimental basis last year as 7th graders. Even in junior high,
some of them scored well enough to get into college right now.
So
let's just put it on the line. You've got the brains. Now, put them
to work -- certainly, not for me, but for you.
Progress starts when we ask more of ourselves, our
schools and, yes, you, our students. We made a start nationally now
by setting six National Education Goals to meet the challenges of the
21st Century. By the year 2000, at least nine in every 10 students
should graduate from high school. We should be first in the world in
math and science. We need to regularly test student's abilities.
Every American child should start school ready to learn; every
American adult should be literate; and every American school should
be safe and drug-free. Reaching those goals is the aim of a strategy
that we call America 2000 -- a crusade for excellence in American
education school by school, community by community.
But what does all this mean -- you might say, what is he
doing, what does this all mean for the students right here in this
room? Fast-forward five years from now. Unless things change,
between now and 1996 as many as one in four of today's 8th graders
will not graduate with their class. In some cities, the dropout rate
is twice that high or higher. Imagine: Out of a total of nearly
three million of your fellow classmates nationwide, an army of more
than half a million dropouts.
I ask every student watching today: Look around you.
Count four students -- start with yourself. No one dreams of
becoming a dropout, but far too many do. Which one of you won't make
it through school?
The fact is, every one of you can. Let's make a pact
then right here. Let's work to see that five years from now, you and
your friends will be more than sad statistics. Give yourself a
decent shot at your dreams. Stay in school. Get that diploma.
Let's go back to the future. In the fall of 1996 --
five years from now -- nearly half of today's 8th graders who get
their diplomas will enter the working world. More than half the
graduates will stay in school -- and become the college class of the
year 2000.
The question each student watching today should ask is:
Where will I be where will I be five years from now? Will I be
holding down a good job and maybe working toward a better one, or
will I be out of school and out of work? Will I be on a college
campus - or out running the streets?
Think about that tonight when you're at a kitchen table
doing some homework; while your parents are meeting your teachers
like so many millions do this year at back-to-school nights all
across our great country.
I'm asking you to put two and two together: Make the
connection between the homework you do tonight, the test you take
tomorrow and where you'll be five, 15, even 50 years from now. You
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30 September 1991
6:45 p.m.
MEMORANDUM FOR DAN "MR. MORTGAGE" MC GROARTY
FROM:
JEANNIE BUNTON R
SUBJECT:
BACK TO SCHOOL ADDRESS - SUCCESS STORY INSERT
TONY ASKED ME TO FIND INFO ON A PERSON WHO MAKES WHAT THEY DO
LOOK VERY EASY -- THOUGH THEY WORK AT IT VERY HARD. HERE'S WHAT
WE CAME UP WITH
DEBI THOMAS:
Olympic Figure Skater (1988 Olympic Bronze
Medalist) 1986 World and U.S. Figure Skating
Champion
first American female skating champion in 30 years to attend
college while competing;
first black woman to make U.S Olympic figure-skating team;
spent as many as 7 hours a day practicing;
a
dreams of starting a training and eduction facility for
young athletes, "So they can stay in school while they're
doing their sport, without having a lot tension from one
side or another;"
after Olympics, continued pre-med studies at Stanford from
MONTHS
which she graduated on June 16, 1991 with a bachelor's
degree in general engineering and product design;
ACNLY!
in the next year will prepare applications for med school;
ultimate goal to be orthopedic surgeon, using engineering
skills to design and implant artificial ligaments;
QUOTES:
S
"But I think my outlook on life had been my advantage.
Things like the importance of an education and being
whatever you can be give me an inner strength to pull things
off on the ice."
quoted in 2/15/88 Sports Illustrated
"I was prepared to retire after the Olympics, win or lose.
Just having school and knowing that I was going to have a
life after that really made it so it wasn't so traumatic."
25 September 1991
3:25 p.m.
MEMORANDUM FOR DAN McGROARTY
FROM:
JEANNIE BUNTON SR
SUBJECT:
ALICE DEAL MATH COUNTS COMPETITION
HERE'S THE DEAL
Info per Mrs. Joyce Higginbothom, Math Counts Sponsor
0
Math counts is an extracurricular, voluntary program, 7th
and 8th graders;
0
club is three years old, participated since 1989;
0
kids get together in September and practice until school-
wide competition in February when 2 teams of four students
are selected -- the second team serves as alternates;
also in Feb. chapter competiion is held, if qualify then go
on to state competition in March; if qualify highest scoring
team goes on to National competition;
0
in 1991, two Alice Deal students (Matt Chotin, Kate Sawyer
both currently 9th graders) were members of the 4 person
team which won the 1991 State Competition. These students
represented both Alice Deal and the D.C. Public Schools;
0
Rachael Rusch, who is also a Johns Hopkins SAT student, was
a member of last year's team
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Patrick Welsh, English teachers T.C. Williams High Achool,
Alexandria, Virginia, taught for 21 years:
"I can't disagree with anything President Bush said, but I think
there is a fundamental misconception when he says that Deal is a
shool that works. Deal is a school that works because it has the
right parents and the right kids. Sixty percent of the kids in
that school are coming from outside the district. They are the
kids of school board members, teachers, so the school works for
people who know how to work the system. The difference is the
kids that have the right parents, usually middle or upper class,
not the poor who are left behind in other schools, are nurtured
and supported by the parents in the home."
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Scripps Howard News Service
Release date: 10-02-91
By ANN McFEATTERS
Scripps Howard News Service
WASHINGTON - Via TV, President Bush challenged schoolchildren
Tuesday to "give yourselves a decent shot at your dreams. Stay in
school. Get that diploma."
Telecast live on Cable News Network and Public Broadcasting System,
Bush went to an eighth grade classroom at one of the capital's best and
most affluent neighborhood junior high schools, Alice Deal, where
families petition to send children.
Bush read from a TelePrompTer to exhort children to "take
control" of their future by working hard. As he stood in front of a
blackboard or perched on a stool, students sat rapt and silent.
He admonished, "Block out the kids who think it's not cool to be
smart. I can't understand for the life of me what's SO great about being
stupid. If someone goofs off today, are they still cool years from now
when they're stuck in some dead-end job?"
The administration urged all schools to let their children watch
but aides said they had no idea how many did. Early in his presidency
Bush used classroom television to urge children not to use drugs.
The speech was part of a Bush campaign of public appearances to
counter criticism that he is too wrapped up in foreign affairs. Last
month at a Lewiston, Maine, school, he urged children and parents to
watch less TV.
A new report concluded this week that American students are not
learning what they need to learn to compete in the 21st century.
Confronted with violence, even gunplay at school, students should
"demand discipline" from their principals, parents and the school
board, Bush said. "As students you have a right to be physically safe
at school.'
Bush also said, "Don't say school is boring. Make your teachers
work hard. If you don't work hard, who gets hurt? If you cheat, who pays
the price? If you cut corners, if you hunt for the easy 'A,' who comes
up short? Easy answer to that one. You do.'
Bush told students to "fast-forward five years from now" and
wonder who among them would not be there. "Unless things change
between now and 1996, as many as one in four of today's eighth graders
may not graduate with their class. In some cities the drop-out rate is
twice that high or higher."
He said, "I am asking you to put two and two together. Make the
connection between the homework you do tonight, the test you take
tomorrow and where you will be five, 15, even 50 years from now,' Bush
said. "The real world starts right here, and what you do here will
have consequences for your whole life."
Bush urged children to "let me know how you're doing. Write me a
letter. And I'm serious about this one. Write me a letter about ways you
can help us achieve our goal. You know the address."
Bush's six national education goals for the year 2000, worked out
with the nation's governors, are these:
Nine out of every 10 students should become high school graduates;
U.S. children should be world leaders in math and science; student
achievement should be regularly tested; every child should start school
ready to learn; every adult should be literate; and every school should
be safe and drug free.
(Ann) McFeatters covers the White House for Scripps Howard News
Service.
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Make list
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By Fred Hiatt
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vision studio and its students into props yes-
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terday as President Bush delivered a live tele-
Soviet troops will be cut in
vision address to America's schoolchildren,
within three years, and a go
the latest administration effort to demonstrate
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the president's interest in domestic issues.
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taken off alert in response to
over the highly telegenic speech-carried live
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from Alice Deal Junior High School by Public
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mentary committee that the
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BY LARRY MORRIS-THE WASHINGTON POST
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Oval Office, yesterday's was handled not by
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Bush poses for photograph at Alice Deal Junior High School here before telecast on PBS and CNN.
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paid by the U.S. Department of Education,
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pay attention to the president as he perched
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ment repeated on Russian te
selected the camera angles and decided which
on a stool in front of Room 112's blackboard,
volunteered sarcastically.
sion tonight, that the army sh
pictures would be sent out, officials said.
not the teleprompters in the back of the room
There are no plans to use videotape from
be cut to 3 million in the cor
The students in Cynthia Mostoller's eighth-
from which he read his text.
the event in the campaign, White House of-
years.
grade American history class said they were
Some said they thought Bush was thinking
ficials said yesterday.
The discrepancy reflected
advised to wear soft-soled shoes so they did
more about his own reelection than their ed-
A classroom full of students was chosen for
tinuing uncertainty throughout
not make too much noise. They were told to
ucation. "I'm sure we'll never see these pic-
See BUSH, A18, Col. 1
military hierarchy about the fut
of the Soviet armed forces as
publics of this former Commu
superpower spin off toward in
pendence. With many repub
Spy vs. Spy: 4 CIA Veterans Criticize, Defend Gates
forming their own armed for
not only the size but also
A18 WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1991
THE WASHINGTON POST
On this day in - history (1962) James Meredith is
to enroll at the unit
BY LARRY MORRIS-THE WASHINGTON POST
President Bush and Cynthia Mostoller, second from right in front, and members of her eighth-grade American history class at Deal junior high before address.
Private TV Firm Produces Bush's School Visit Here
BUSH. From A1
was also carried live by the Mutual demonstrate concern for the slug- devoted its first 2 minutes 40 sec-
President Bush and Cynthia Mostoller, second from right in front, and members of her eighth-grade American history class at Deal junior high before address.
Private TV Firm Produces Bush's School Visit Here
BUSH, From A1
was also carried live by the Mutual
demonstrate concern for the slug-
devoted its first 2 minutes 40 sec
Broadcasting and NBC Radio Net-
gish economy. Today, he is to ad-
onds, to the president's visit. Corre
Bush's address to allow him to inter-
work. The live television and radio
dress a crime prevention group in
spondent John Cochran said that
act with the children, administration
coverage was arranged at the re-
Louisville.
Bush "skillfully used TV in a careful-
officials said. The president visited
quest of the Education Department,
Administration officials said they
ly staged talk to students" and noted
the room about 10 minutes before
administration officials said.
hired WETACOM Inc., WETA-TV's
that the White House was using "its
the speech to break the ice and try to
The speech, in which Bush en-
production company, to handle tele-
own cameras" to get its message out.
establish rapport. "We didn't want
couraged students to study hard,
vision coverage after the networks
The words "Taped by White House
the students to feel that they were
avoid drugs and turn in troublemak-
said they would not produce it.
cameras" appeared over pictures of
props," a senior administration offi-
ers, was given one day after a new
CNN bureau chief Bill Headline,
Bush. ABC and CBS ignored the
cial said.
report said the nation must "travel a
the temporary coordinator for all the
event.
The students at the most racially
tremendous distance" to meet the
networks covering the White House,
School officials wanted to present
integrated junior high school in the
education goals the president set
denied that. "They made some que-
the best image too. Anthony Yancey,
District played non-speaking roles,
earlier this year.
ries, but they never made a formal
a facilities manager for the D.C.
the camera often focusing on the
The address was "to motivate
request," he said. "My distinct belief
school system, said staff workers
faces of one or two intently pointing
America's students to strive for ex-
is that the White House realized they
have been painting, sweeping and
toward the president. "I didn't want
cellence; to increase students' as
wouldn't get a fancy production out
cleaning windows at Deal from 6
to jerk my head back, so I put my
well as parents' responsibili-
of it" if the networks had handled it.
a.m. to 11 p.m. daily since last Wed-
eyes on George Bush," said Eric
ty/accountability; and to promote
The event was covered by three
nesday. Officials said the floors had
Schacht, who was startled to catch a
students' and parents' awareness of
television cameras, allowing shots of
been stripped and polished, fire code
glimpse of himself in a television
the educational challenge we face,"
the students' reactions. If the net-
compliance was reviewed and addi-
monitor.
White House press secretary Marlin
works had produced it, only one cam-
tional lights were installed, partic-
Administration officials said they
Fitzwater said in a written state-
era probably would have been used,
ularly at the entrance that Bush
gave the children no such special
ment.
Headline said.
used.
instructions. "We only saw the kids
It also was intended to underscore
Headline said there were concerns
Many students said they did not
about 30 minutes before the speech,"
Bush's attention to domestic matters
about carrying the White House-pro-
quite catch what Bush said, but were
said Sig Rogich, the former Nevada
and counter Democratic charges that
duced event live, but the network
enthralled with the staging and the
advertising executive in charge of
he spends too much time on foreign
decided "it was something a 24-hour
president's presence. Rishwana
presenting Bush's image in the best
affairs as he prepares to run for re-
news network should carry." In in-
Gould, 13, said Bush seemed like a
possible way. The student's close
election.
troducing the speech, CNN anchor
attention to the president, he said,
In the last two weeks, Bush has
Reid Collins pointed out that the cov-
father talking to his children. "He
"probably had a lot to with the con-
visited the Grand Canyon to talk
erage was controlled by the White
just seemed like a regular man inter-
ested in the education of the children
tent of the speech."
about the environment, a highway
House. Several times during the
The White House sent letters to
construction site in Los Angeles to
speech, the cable network flashed
of the United States," she said.
schools across the nation to encour-
discuss transportation and has pre-
the words "White House Production"
"I think all the stuff he said was
age teachers and principals to allow
sided over two publicized meetings
across the bottom of the screen.
true, that students have to work
students to tune in the speech, which
of his Economic Policy Council to
Last night, "NBC Nightly News"
harder," Jerry Flattau said.
"I don't really like the president
that much, but when he got here I
TODAY IN CONGRESS
sort of forgot about it," said Charlsye
McKenzie, 13, a member of the stu-
dent council. "But now that he's
SENATE
Energy & Commerce-10 a.m. Oversight & investigations subc.
Meets at 9 a.m.
State and local Medicaid issues. 2123 RHOB.
gone, I don't like him anymore."
Committees:
Energy & Commerce-2 p.m. Health and the environment subc.
Rhonda Henderson said Bush's
Banking, Housing & Urban Affairs-9:30 a.m. Securities subc.
Mark up Disabilities Prevention Act, Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Amendments and Abandoned Infants Assistance Act Amendments of
message sounded as if it had been
Securities Investor Protection Act of 91, other issues relating to
Securities and Exchange Act of 1934. 538 Dirksen Office Bldg.
'91. 2322 RHOB.
written by someone else, as it was. "I
Commerce, Science & Transportation-10 a.m. Nomination of Ming
Foreign Affairs-10 a.m. Europe and Middle East subc. U.S. policy
want him to write it himself so we
Hsu to Federal Maritime Commission & Arthur Rothkopf to be general
toward Soviet Union. 2200 RHOB.
counsel at Dept. of Transportation. 253 Russell Office Bldg.
Government Operations-9:30 a.m. Employment & housing subc.
can hear what the truth is, how he
Energy & Natural Resources-2 p.m. Renominations of Elizabeth
Impact of contract labor on safety in petrochemical plants. 2203
really feels," she said.
Moler and Branko Terzic to Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
RHOB.
a.m. Government information,
"I listened to what he said, but it
it
instructions. "We only saw the KIds
about 30 minutes before the speech,"
Bush's attention to domestic matters
about
carrying
said Sig Rogich, the former Nevada
and counter Democratic charges that
duced event live, but the network
advertising executive in charge of
he spends too much time on foreign
decided "it was something a 24-hour
enthralled with the staging and the
news network should carry." In in-
president's presence. Rishwana
presenting Bush's image in the best
affairs as he prepares to run for re-
Gould, 13, said Bush seemed like a
possible way. The student's close
election.
troducing the speech, CNN anchor
attention to the president, he said,
In the last two weeks, Bush has
Reid Collins pointed out that the cov-
father talking to his children. "He
"probably had a lot to with the con-
visited the Grand Canyon to talk
erage was controlled by the White
just seemed like a regular man inter-
ested in the education of the children
tent of the speech."
about the environment, a highway
House. Several times during the
The White House sent letters to
construction site in Los Angeles to
speech, the cable network flashed
of the United States," she said.
schools across the nation to encour-
discuss transportation and has pre-
the words "White House Production"
"I think all the stuff he said was
age teachers and principals to allow
sided over two publicized meetings
across the bottom of the screen.
true, that students have to work
students to tune in the speech, which
of his Economic Policy Council to
Last night, "NBC Nightly News"
harder," Jerry Flattau said.
"I don't really like the president
that much, but when he got here I
TODAY IN CONGRESS
sort of forgot about it," said Charlsye
McKenzie, 13, a member of the stu-
dent council. "But now that he's
SENATE
Energy & Commerce-10 a.m. Oversight & investigations subc.
Meets at 9 a.m.
State and local Medicaid issues. 2123 RHOB.
gone, I don't like him anymore."
Committees:
Energy & Commerce-2 p.m. Health and the environment subc.
Rhonda Henderson said Bush's
Banking, Housing & Urban Affairs-9:30 a.m. Securities subc.
Mark up Disabilities Prevention Act, Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Securities Investor Protection Act of 91, other issues relating to
Amendments and Abandoned Infants Assistance Act Amendments of
message sounded as if it had been
Securities and Exchange Act of 1934. 538 Dirksen Office Bldg.
'91. 2322 RHOB.
written by someone else, as it was. "I
Commerce, Science & Transportation-10 a.m. Nomination of Ming
Foreign Affairs-10 a.m. Europe and Middle East subc. U.S. policy
want him to write it himself so we
Hsu to Federal Maritime Commission & Arthur Rothkopf to be general
toward Soviet Union. 2200 RHOB.
counsel at Dept. of Transportation. 253 Russell Office Bldg.
Government Operations-9:30 a.m. Employment & housing subc.
can hear what the truth is, how he
Energy & Natural Resources-2 p.m. Renominations of Elizabeth
Impact of contract labor on safety in petrochemical plants. 2203
really feels," she said.
Moler and Branko Terzic to Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
RHOB.
366 DOB.
Government Operations-9:30 a.m. Government information,
"I listened to what he said, but it
Foreign Relations-10 a.m. International Convention on Salvage and
Justice & Agriculture subc. FCC efforts to assure reliability of public
wasn't as if he hasn't said it before,"
International Convention on Oil Pollution Preparedness, Response and
telephone network. 2247 RHOB.
Cooperation & nomination of David Colson for rank of ambassador as
Interior & Insular Affairs-9:45 a.m. Mark up Radiation Protection
said Nicole Phillips, a seventh-grader
deputy assistant secretary of state for oceans and fisheries affairs.
Act of '91, auth. interior secretary to designate Nez Perce National
who watched the president's class-
419 DOB.
Historical Park in Idaho and designate certain lands in North Carolina
room visit from the school auditori-
Foreign Relations-2 p.m. Nominations of Richard Clark Barkley to
as wilderness. 1324 Longworth House Office Bldg.
Judiciary-10:30 a.m. International law, immigration and refugees
um on a large-screen television.
be ambassador to Turkey, James Dobbins to be U.S. representative to
the European Communities with rank of ambassador & John Christian
subc. Oversight hearing on refugee resettlement. 2237 RHOB.
Bush later addressed the student
Kornblum for rank of ambassador as head of delegation to Conference
Judiclary-10:30 a.m. Administrative law & governmental relations
on Security and Cooperation in Europe. 419 DOB.
subc. To permit claims against U.S. for damages from negligent
body in the auditorium.
Governmental Affairs-9:30 a.m. Governmental regulation of
medical care provided members of armed forces. 2226 RHOB.
Others suggested that Bush's
reproductive hazards. 342 DOB.
Merchant Marine & Fisheries-10 a.m. Fisheries & wildlife
message would have been better de-
Judiciary-2 p.m. Nominations of Barbara Caulfield to be district
conservation & environment subc. Ground Fish Restoration Act. 1334
judge for Northern District of California, Ronald Longstaff to be district
LHOB.
livered at a school other than Deal,
judge for Southern District of lowa, John Lungstrum to be district
Science, Space & Technology-2 p.m. Environment subc.
where students have scored consid-
judge for District of Kansas & Terry Means to be district judge for
Automotive technologies for fuel economy. 2325 RHOB.
Northern District of Texas. 226 DOB.
Veterans' Affairs-9 a.m. Hospitals & health care subc. Mark up to
erably above the national norm on
Special Aging-9:30 a.m. Medicare fraud and abuse. 628 DOB.
establish limits on prices of drugs procured by Dept. of Veterans
standardized tests for the last sev-
Select Intelligence-9:45 a.m., may close. Nomination of Robert
Affairs; provide for demonstration projects to test feasibility of greater
eral years and have won a number of
Gates to be director of CIA. 216 Hart Office Building.
sharing of health-care resources by federal providers. 334 Cannon
House Office Bldg.
academic awards.
HOUSE
Ways & Means-10 a.m. To simplify tax treatment of intangible
Said Jacob Noble, 13: "He should
Meets at 10 a.m.
assets & related legislation. 1100 LHOB.
Select Aging-9:30 a.m. Human services subc. Grandparents' rights
go to a place that needs help, not to a
Committees:
Banking, Finance & Urban Affairs-10 a.m. Financial institutions,
& preserving generational bonds. B318 RHOB.
place that has all the help it needs
supervision, regulation & insurance subc. Mark up legislation to
Joint Economic-9:30 a.m. Education & health subc. Health care
plus more. We're such a great
refinance & restructure RTC. 2128 Rayburn House Office Bldg.
reform. 2359 RHOB.
Education & Labor-9:30 a.m. Postsecondary education subc. Mark
Conferees-1:30 p.m. FY92 transportation appropriations. H-140
school. Why doesn't he go to one of
up Higher Education Amendments of '92. 2175 RHOB.
Capitol.
the schools that isn't known for its
greatness."
POLITICS
Tsongas Health Plan Aims
ployers to provide health insurance for
medical malpractice law to discourage lit-
said the media
workers and cut costs.
igation and the "defensive medicine" doc-
their air fares
tors often practice to avoid lawsuits.
aides and Seci
H
eled with the
will also go.
If the cuts are approved today by
see POLICE, page B2
from the governor, may soon get something else from him
walking
P
College preparatory
O
Teacher Cynthia Mostolle
a sweatshirt from Student
STUDENTS
Alice Deal Junior High
Bush but had lots to Sa
he talked to:
Cara Elkins: "He wa:
That's hard to do."
Sharise Brown: "Wh
college?
I have one
Where is the money cor
April Freeman: "I'm
college tuition might cor
Sarah Klein: "He wa
Patrick Tanner: "He
have an actual job, hold
Jesse Fellus: "He m
be out on the street dea
Charlsye McKenzie:
Jael Humphrey: "He
Photos by Ruth Fremson The Washington Times
and war and more mone
Alice Deal Junior High students (from left) Valerie Lear, Charlsye McKenzie, Hannah Breul, Michelle Bayder and April
Freeman listen to reporters' questions yesterday after President Bush spoke to eighth-graders about education.
Bush urges higher education for
wide.
"I think the kids were mesmer-
forward five years from
By Frank J. Murray
10/2/91
"Block out the kids who think it's
ized," said an approving Cynthia
posed for them the quest
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
not cool to be smart. I can't under-
Mostoller, a teacher, whose fourth-
be on a college campus
President Bush used highly rated
stand for the life of me what's so
period classroom became a tempo-
ning the streets?"
Alice Deal Junior High School as his
great about being stupid," the presi-
rary broadcast studio. "I think he
Student Sharise Brown
stage yesterday for a nationally tele-
dent said in tones that sought to
put education to the front of the
unrealistic. "What if you
vised address against quitting
reach students in terms they under-
news instead of as a footnote," she
don't have the money to
school.
stood.
said.
college? I have one
"Education means the difference
His talk got high marks from
But some students balked at Mr.
college and another in ni
between a good future and a lousy
some students. "Down to earth. I un-
Bush's emphasis on attending col-
Where is the money com
one," Mr. Bush told the eighth-grade
derstood it," said student Sarah
lege and their impression that he
she asked.
class - "the college class of the year
Klein, who said she enjoyed his pre-
equated a lack of education with de-
Classmate April Fre
2000." Three TV cameras recorded
broadcast humor even more. "He
pendence on drugs. They had lots to
reportedly turned down a
his talk at the Northwest school and
was funny, making jokes about his
say after he left.
scholarship to a prestigi
beamed it to 110,000 schools nation-
bald spot."
Mr. Bush asked each child to "fast
school to stay at Alice De
Mary from the governor, may soon get something else from him - walking papers.
to accept the reductions.
Most of the cuts, including the
see SCHAEFER,
reparatory oratory
Layo
start
'mes
up'I
By Vincent McCra
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Of 200 positions e
District governmer
were filled with Wi
workers who will lo:
8. Wondimu Mers
them.
"This has messe(
Mr. Mersha, a m
Teacher Cynthia Mostoller gets special notice from the president, who holds
counting and auditi:
a sweatshirt from Student Council members, including lla Bellamy (far left).
partment of Fin
where 13 positions
STUDENTS TALK BACK
An Ethiopian wh
ernment in 1986, N
Alice Deal Junior High eighth-graders didn't get to question President
Bush but had lots to say after he left. A sample of quotes from the class
bachelor's degree i
master's in finance
he talked to:
the public sector he
Cara Elkins: "He was asking us to look ahead 5 years or 15 years.
with General Moto
That's hard to do."
"I was negotiati
Sharise Brown: "What if your parents don't have the money to put you in
on North Capitol. I
college?
I have one brother in college and another in ninth grade.
to college next yea
Where is the money coming from?"
put on hold," said N
April Freeman: "I'm the youngest of eight and 1 don't know where
City officials sp
college tuition might come from."
ing to make the b
Sarah Klein: "He was down to earth. 1 understood it."
process - imple
Patrick Tanner: "He seemed to be saying if you stay in school, you'll
Sharon Pratt Di
have an actual job, hold it down and have a good life."
pledge to restore
Jesse Fellus: "He made it sound like if we don't go to college we might
health by reducing
be out on the street dealing drugs. A lot of people don't."
But the promise
Charlsye McKenzie: "I think he should visit more schools."
level workers ma
Jael Humphrey: "He should spend less money on things like the military
solely by layoffs.
Photos by Ruth Fremson The Washington Times
and war and more money on things here that would help us."
achieve that numl
cKenzie, Hannah Breul, Michelle Bayder and April
early retirements
sh spoke to eighth-graders about education.
The Washington Times
vacant positions a
part-time workers
her education for city teens
"I'm going to I
commitment. It's
a fashion that is f
the mayor said ye
forward five years from now" and
"I'm the youngest of eight and I
"Ultimately, we
"I think the kids were mesmer-
think it's
posed for them the question: "Will I
don't know where college tuition
ized," said an approving Cynthia
one way or the oth
n't under-
Mostoller, a teacher, whose fourth-
be on a college campus or out run-
might come from," she said, adding
D.C. Office of F
what's so
ning the streets?"
that her parents would do whatever
Lorraine Green
period classroom became a tempo-
rary broadcast studio. "I think he
Student Sharise Brown called that
they could to help her become a ma-
will be abolished
the presi-
put education to the front of the
unrealistic. "What if your parents
rine ecologist.
week. She said 3
sought to
.ey under-
news instead of as a footnote," she
don't have the money to put you in
Mr. Bush surprised the class by
have received 30-
said.
college?
I have one brother in
telling them their teacher decided to
day.
rks from
But some students balked at Mr.
college and another in ninth grade.
go to college at age 25 and worked
The remaining
Bush's emphasis on attending col-
Where is the money coming from?"
her way through as a waitress for
arth. I un-
geted are funded
:nt Sarah
lege and their impression that he
she asked.
seven years.
The administra
equated a lack of education with de-
Classmate April Freeman, who
Student Valerie Lear said the
ed his pre-
pendence on drugs. They had lots to
reportedly turned down a swimming
class hadn't known that. "She looked
reduce the 30,00
nore. "He
force by eliminat
about his
say after he left.
scholarship to a prestigious private
Mr. Bush asked each child to "fast
school to stay at Alice Deal, agreed.
see EDUCATE, page B2
porary workers.
Mrs. Green sa
separate from the
Joel P. Bennet
with seniority were cut before newly
ais-
Spokesmen for the governor say
hired officers. The governor has not
resenting a grou
patcher Angie Cannady, 26.
the cuts are brutal, but essential. Po-
Near tears, secretary Beverly
considered alternatives, like salary
plan to file a law:
lice say they will not only harm
cuts, said Edward R. Luers, vice
yesterday said h
Kirshbaum. worried about buying
troopers, but endanger public safety.
president of FOP Trooper Lodge 69,
days. He said he
senior pictures for her 17-year-old
"A stranded motorist is going to
which includes College Park.
mine what strat
daughter. Since her husband's death
feel the impact, either by a delayed
Yesterday, 200 troopers heckled
the city.
in 1975, she said, she has worked to
response or no response at all," said
the governor when he announced the
An employee и
give her children "a middle class
Chuck Jackson, spokesman for the
cuts to business and community
of firing can app
life," and keep up the mortgage on
Maryland State Police. "Somewhere
leaders and today troopers and their
panel of the Offic
their Laurel home. Now, that life is
along the line, something tragic is
families plan to march on the State
peals. The three-1
threatened.
going to slip through."
House.
appointed by the
"This is wrong," said Trooper Bill
Last year, College Park troopers
If lobbying fails, the unions may
Mrs. Green said
Ritchey, a plainclothes investigator
answered 17,370 calls, issued 27,305
file suit, said lodge President David
who did not get a pink slip. But his
will be "very fev
citations and arrested 375 people.
Rooney.
partner, Sgt. Donald Chipley, did.
peals.
They patrol from Montgomery
Said Sgt. Ingram, "You are not go-
They have worked together 21 years.
Jonetta Rose
County east to Anne Arundel County
ing to see this department just lay
Other police cuts would close a
uted to this report.
and from Howard County down to
down and take this."
SCHAEFER
BUDGETS
adding that he expects the state to be
CASI
sued by inmates in the near future
From page B1
TAKE A HIT
for no longer providing those ser-
From page B1
Gov. William Donald Schaefer
vices.
Some of the most devastating re-
will ask the Board of Public
Another victim of the cuts is
reaped," Mr. Willian
ductions came at the expense of lo-
Works to approve the following
prison drug treatment services. As
fear Prince George
cal governments and state health
cuts today.
many as 80 percent of the 21,000
coming a national
and welfare programs. Prince
prisoners are believed to have sub-
illegal games."
George's and Montgomery counties
Amount* (In millions)
stance abuse problems, Mr. Robin-
Sometimes refer
are likely to lose $18 million each,
Health
$77.0
son said.
Vegas" nights, the
much of it in community college aid,
Welfare
$53.0
As programs are eliminated that
casino-style games
non-mandated education funding
Public Safety
now offer credit to inmates to reduce
games have been er
$34.0
and police protection.
their sentences, jails will slowly fill
ular and profitable a
Meanwhile, 24,000 of the state's
High Education
$47.0
up past capacity, he said. But some
legitimate charity or
poorest people, who are not eligible
Aid to local
prisoners could go free.
volunteer fire depar:
for federal funds, would lose their
governments
$114.7
A $1 million cut from the Public
social services and e
General Public Assistance benefits
Medicaid rollover
$70.0
Defender's Office would mean that
and their health care coverage un-
Other state agencies
$41.9
about 140 appellate cases a month
der the State Only Medicaid pro-
will have to be deferred, Mr. Schaef-
gram. Elimination of those pro-
Judiciary
$7.0
er said. Such a deferral could result
grams would save about $100
Legislature
$2.1
in some inmates being freed, state
million.
Arling
Total
$447.2
officials said.
Mr. Schaefer has also proposed
Figures are rounded.
Mr. Schaefer proposes to fire 904
reducing Aid to Families with De-
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
contractual workers and 862 regular
pendent Children by 2.5 percent.
state workers. The Health and Men-
Arlington County y
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Baltimore Archbishop William
tal Hygiene Department will lose
a $1.65 million tax cla
Keeler, in a statement yesterday,
In the Department of Public
745 contractual workers. The Uni-
Richmond, Frederick.
asked the governor to rethink his
Safety and Correctional Services,
versity of Maryland System -
tomac Railroad, which
cuts, saying the "most vulnerable"
$31 million was trimmed. Secretary
which already has approved a tuition
surer Frank O'Leary
citizens are bearing the brunt.
Bishop Robinson said all prison edu-
surcharge to help make up its cut
ably the large:
Agency reductions account for a
cation, recreation, counseling and
will fire 365 people.
commonwealth history
large portion of the cuts: The De-
religious programs will be elimi-
But Mr. Miller said the cuts still
Mr. O'Leary said th
partment of Health and Mental Hy-
nated come November.
seem extreme.
question could rise I
giene faces a $77 million cut, and the
"Until we find some other alterna-
"I can't imagine, in my wildest
ments from 1984 thro
University of Maryland System,
tives, we're just going to be ware-
imagination, some of these cuts go-
come available. "The tot
nearly $36 million.
housing people," said Mr. Robinson,
ing through," he said.
ble or almost double," h
Yesterday's action is
tate taxes from 1988, 19
he said. Payments were
EDUCATE
is a terrible thing to waste" by Stu-
"Anything is possible. Just step up
but were not made, Mr. 0
dent Council President Lucas Fleis-
to the plate. I know we can and I
"I have liens on RF8
cher, who asked Mr. Bush to think of
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know we will," she said in a semi-
counts now," he said.
public schoolchildren every time he
chant that her audience loved.
Officials with RF&P
wears it.
Also in attendance yesterday were
Richmond, could not be )
like she was kind of proud of her-
Students in the auditorium ap-
former Olympic athletes Al Joyner
comment. The railroad
self."
plauded politely at the introduction
and Florence Griffith-Joyner, who
owned by the CSX Cor
While the eighth-graders listened
of various public officials who were
have four gold medals between
state's retirement system
to Mr. Bush in their classroom, the
on hand yesterday, but Mayor Sharon
them.
dividuals.
rest of the school's 950 students
Pratt Dixon's name brought down
"When a school works, it's be-
Mr. O'Leary said he a
watched a giant-screen television in
the house. The mayor fired up the
cause you make it work," Miss Joy-
ticipation of a transact
the auditorium.
students with a pep talk that never
ner said, advising students the same
which RF&P would ceas
The president was given a
mentioned Mr. Bush or the federal
was true for individuals. "Take con-
while the Virginia State R
sweatshirt with the slogan "A child
government.
trol of your life."
System takes over the r.
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