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Survey says Texas schools
provide quality education
United Press International
DALLAS — A survey
hows most educators believe
/exas public schools provide
high quality of education, but
they would like to see higher
salaries for teachers, more
parental involvement and
more competent instructors,
a survery showed Wednes
day.
The results of the
statewide survey were pre
sented to members of Gov.
Mark White’s Select Commit
tee on Public Education, a
blue-ribbon panel studying
reforms in Texas schools.
The committee is consid
ering proposals for inclusion
in a comprehensive report to
be presented to White March
1 recommending an overhaul
of the state’s schools. White
attended Wednesday’s meet
ing.
The Pilot District Manage
ment Process Survey, con
ducted in November by Si
rota and Alper Associates
Inc., a New York research
firm, included 5,000 teachers
and 1,000 principals and su
perintendents from Texas’ 39
school districts.
Ninety-five percent of the
K rincipals surveyed said they
elieved their school pro
vided a high quality of educa
tion, compared with 73 per
cent of the teachers.
Fifty-nine percent of the
teachers believe they are well
qualified for their job, and 52
percent felt that only 1 to 5
percent of the faculty was in
competent, the survey said.
Forty-one percent of the tea
chers believe incompetentant
instructors are rarely fired.
Ninety percent of of super
intendents and 95 percent of
the principals said teachers in
their school district were
doing a good job. Twenty-
three percent of the princi
pals and 41 percent of the su
perintendents said too little is
being done to weed out in
competent teachers.
Only 23 percent of the
principals believed academic
standards for promoting stu
dents to the next grade were
too low, compared to 46 per
cent of the teachers. Fifty-
three percent of the teachers
believed academic standards
should be increased before a
student can participate in ex
tra-curricular activities, com
pared to 37 percent of the
principals.
H. Ross Perot, the Dallas
computer magnate who
chairs the committee, said
such attitudes indicate ad
ministrators are not as aware
of the problems in the school
system as they should be.
“This is like a failing busi
ness and the managers are
saying they are satisfied with
the performance,” said Perot.
“The teachers are aware of
the problem, but this indi
cates a large amount of com
placency on the management
level.”
Dr. David Sirota, an indus
trial psychologist who con
ducted the survey, said the
percentages generally were
higher than those in similar
surveys in the business sector,
but said he believed the re
sults were positive.
“It shows there is no mo
rale disaster. Educators are
saying ‘Things are pretty
good, but lets make some
changes and make it better.’
There’s a high level of overall
satisfaction. Though they are
not satisfied with everything,
they are extremenly satisfied
with the work itself,” Sirota
said.
Twenty-two percent of the
administrators said higher
teacher salaries would raise
the quality of education, while
14 percent believed more tea
chers should be hired to
lower the teacher-student ra
tio and 13 percent said more
qualified teachers are needed.
Red River may not open
due to huge budget cut
United Press International
BOSSIER CITY, La. — A
Louisiana congressman warned
Wednesday the massive federal
budget deficit could mean a cut
in money for government pro
jects, including one to open the
Red River to commercial barge
navigation.
Rep. Charles “Buddy”
Roemer told delegates to the
Red River Valley Association
convention he was one of seve
ral congressmen working on an
alternative budget proposal.
But he said the $200 billion def
icit could force them to reduce
federal dollars for all programs,
including the Red River Water
way.
“I want to warn you that a
portion of that alternative bud
get might be to cut all govern
ment programs across the
board 3, 5, or 10 percent,” he
said.
Roemer also criticized the
suggestion that the navigation
project be made an issue in the
1984 presidential race in order
to secure guarantees of contin
ued support.
“We in America have often
times paid a very high price for
policidcal muscle because it
usually means you vote for my
project and I’ll vote for yours,”
Roemer said. “A cynic might say
these advocates of ‘let’s make a
deal’ really want the candidates
to buy our votes by speeding up
the project. I know they really
don’t mean that.
“We hurt the project here
and in Washington if we give
people the impression the pro
ject is just another example of
political muscle and deal mak
ing.”
Roemer’s comments came
one day after Sen. J. Bennett
Johnston, D-La., said he would
try to speed up work on the wa
terway by making it a campaign
issue and pushing candidates to
pledge their support.
Roemer, also a Democrat,
said the project to open the
river to barge traffic from cen
tral Louisiana north to Arkan
sas, Texas and Oklahoma has
been shown to be cost efficient
and worthy of federal invest
ment.
“This is the nation’s project,
not Louisiana’s,” he said. “We’ll
benefit first and we might in the
long run benefit the most. But
the project will be paid for by
the nation’s tax dollars, and it
serves us well to remind the na
tion the project will benefit
them.”
The $81.6 million earmarked
for the project in Reagan’s pro
posed 1985 budget is unrealis
tic, Roemer said, and an
amount of money he could not
support spending on the water
way.
“I’ll spend whatever we can
stand,” he said. “The project is
touted as helping north Loui
siana and I think it will. But also
of help to north Louisiana
would be lower interest rates
and jobs, and those will only
come if the deficit is lowered.”
Edgar Harris, Red River Val
ley Association president, said
the group would not oppose
across-the-board funding cuts,
but said money for the project
should not be reduced unfairly.
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