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U.S. EDUCATION NEWS

Politicizing Education

While the top education news story in the United States last year was all the talk about education reform, the big news this year was action! The American Congress passed numerous educations bills, the Supreme Court handed down significant decisions affecting education, and the American public put education at the top of its issues for Election '98.

Legislation

Education Savings Accounts/School Vouchers [Go To Policy.com]
Policy.com looks at School Vouchers [Go To Policy.com]
Voucher Bill Fails on Bipartisan Vote in House [Go To Education Week]
Congress Amends Education Bill To Diminish Student Debt [Go To College News Online]
Senate Passes Bill Allowing Education Saving Accounts [Go To All Politics]
Clinton Vetoes Tax Breaks [Go To Detroit News]
Clinton Vetoes School Voucher Bill [Go To All Politics]
House Votes to Lower Student Loan Interest Rate and Increase Grant Amounts [Go To Fox News]
Senate Passes Higher Education Bill [Go To Seattle Times]
President Signs Measures On Head Start, Savings [Go To Boston Globe]
Students Caught With Drugs Could Lose Federal Funding [Go To U-Wire Today]

Public School Modernization Act of 1998 [Go To US Department of Education]
Funding Denied For National Testing [Go To Detroit Free Press]
School Funding: Tax Relief Or Government Programs? [Go To Christian Science Monitor]
Clinton Urges Federal Money For New Schools, Renovations [Go To Philadelphia Inquirer]

Amendment Seeks To Teach A Lesson To Colleges Of Education [Go To Philadelphia Inquirer]

FCC Freeze e-Rate Funding For Schools, Libraries

Supreme Court

Ruling May Clarify Affirmative Action [Go To Christian Science Monitor]
High Court Lets School Choice Stand
[Go To Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]
Gebser v. Lago Vista Ind. School Dist. [Go To Law Journal Extra]
Affirmative Action: Piscataway Board of Education v. Taxman, Sharon [Go To Washington Post]
Vouchers for Religious Schools Allowed [Go To Washington Post]
Court Lets Ind. Schools' Drug Tests Stand [Go To Washington Post]
Harassment of Students on Docket [Go To Washington Post]

Election

Party Strategists: Education Is 1998's Top Political Issue [Go To Philadelphia Inquirer]
Bilingual Education Stops At Governor's Desk [Go To Nando Times]
Congress Snags On Education Spending [Go To Boston Globe]
Education: Issue In Brief [Go To Vote Smart]

INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION NEWS

Education Revolution
While the United States dealt with education in its political arena, around the world students and educators took matters into their own hands.

CANADA

(Canadian) Secondary Teachers Endorse Walkout [Go To Sun Star (Phillipines)]

SOUTH AMERICA

Chile Teachers Take To Streets In Strike Over Pay [Go To CNN]

EUROPE

Kosovo Deal Ends Schools Boycott [Go To BBC News]
(England) Teachers Threaten Strikes [Go To BBC News]
Angry French Students Step Up Protest For Funds [Go To University of Utah]
French Student Protesters Back On Streets [Go To CNN]
(France) School Protests Spread [Go To BBC News]
Siberian Teachers Strike Over Pay Arrears [Go To BBC News]
Russian Teachers Boycott "Knowledge Day" [Go To BBC News]
Russian Teachers' Strikes Spreading [Go To BBC News]
Scottish Teachers To Ballot On Boycott [Go To BBC News]
(UK) Students Take To The Streets Over Fees [Go To NUS Online]

AFRICA

(Kenya) Teachers Issue Strike Ultimatum [Go To Pan African News]
(Kenya) Teachers Set Date For Another Strike [Go To Pan African News]
(Cote d'Ivoire) Police Disperse Demonstration By Students From Niger [Go To Pan African News]
(Ghana) Students Call For Pragmatic Education Policies [Go To Pan African News]
(Zimbabwe) Teachers' Association Demanding A 40-Percent Pay Increase [Go To Pan African News]
(Senegalese) Government Denies Shooting Students [Go To Nando Times]

ASIA

Hindu Institutions Object to Government Order [Go To The Hindu]
Burundi University Kicks Out 3,000 Striking Students [Go To Nando Times]
Thousands Of Students March Against Indonesian Assembly [Go To CNN]
[Jerusalem] Teachers On Strike Today [Go To Jerusalem Post]
Israeli Teachers Keep Classrooms Closed [Go To BBC News]
Israeli Teachers End Strike [Go To BBC News]
(Jerusalem) Student Lock-Out [Go To Jerusalem Post]

AUSTRALIA

(Australia) Strike To Close 30 Schools [Go To The Age]