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WASHINGTON (AP) — Presi-
vdent Reagan will nominate Dallas
ischools Superintendent Linus
'Wright to the No. 2 post in the U.S.
|Department of Education, adminis
tration sources said Tuesday.
The sources, who insisted on ano-
jnymity, said Reagan will formally
| nominate Wright as undersecretary
of education upon completion of se
curity checks and routine paper-
Iwork. The post, vacant since Gary
Bauer moved to a White House pol
icy slot in the spring, requires Senate
I confirmation.
Wright, 60, is one of the best
! known and highest paid school su-
] perintendents in America. In nine
years at the helm of the 135,000-stu
dent system, he has earned a reputa
tion as an adroit manager and aca
demic innovator.
Wright, in a telephone interview,
•did not confirm that Reagan had
chosen him for the job, but acknowl-
I edged, “I know I’ve had discussions
and I’m under consideration.”
Wright, who makes $104,000 a
year, would take a pay cut to $82,500
as undersecretary.
Reagan had planned to nominate
| Harvard economics professor Glenn
Loury for the job, but Loury with-
j drew his name from consideration in
June for personal reasons.
Wright has opposed administra
tion proposals for tuition tax credits
Wright described as being
fair capable administrator
DALLAS (AP) — Educators and
colleagues Tuesday described Linus
Wright, leading candidate for the
second-ranking position at the U.S.
Department of Education, as a fair
and capable administrator with the
tenacity of a bull.
Wright, superintendent of the
132,388-student Dallas Independent
School District, will be formally
nominated as undersecretary of ed
ucation by President Reagan when
security checks are completed, ad
ministration sources said Tuesday.
Mary Hepp, a spokeswoman for
the Glassroom Teachers of Dallas,
said the group has had several
clashes with Wright during his nine-
year tenure, but that he has always
been fair.
“There have been times that he
has advocated proposals that we felt
would dilute the strength of our or
ganization,” Hepp said. “But, I think
. . . from our perspective he has dealt
with us fairly.”
Wilton Crocker, executive vice-
president of the Dallas Federation of
Teachers, criticized Wright for the
district’s high administrative cost per
student and said the superintendent
does not recognize his group’s view
that teachers are the backbone of ed
ucation.
“Under his tenure, the district has
been overadministered and under
led,” Crocker said.
and vouchers for private schools. He
has, however, pushed magnet
schools to give parents more choices
within public education. He also has
championed efforts to narrow the
gap between the performance of
white students and that of blacks and
Hispanics on standardized tests.
The Dallas public school system is
one of the nation’s 10 largest. As in
nearly all major U.S. cities, most stu
dents belong to ethnic minorities',
with about half black and 30 percent
Hispanic.
Dallas students’ scores on stan
dardized tests have been rising and
the ethnic gaps closing.
Asked what his dealings with Sec
retary of Education William J. Ben
nett have been, Wright replied, “I
haven’t had any.”
But Wright, who said he is a regis
tered Republican, said Bennett has
“established a philosophy for educa
tion that is good for the country, that
we need to return to the basics, that
we need to return the three C’s to
education . . . content, character and
choice.”
“I feel public education is going to
have to improve in this country,” he
said. “We’re going to have to im
prove the literacy rate in order to be
competitive.”
The Reagan administration has
lobbied unsuccessfully for tax breaks
for parents who choose private
schools, and vouchers that parents
of disadvantaged children could
spend at public or private schools.
Wright said: “I have, as a public
educator, opposed vouchers, but I
have supported choice and provide
that choice within our school district.
... I don’t think that private schools
are something that the federal gov
ernment ought to take responsibility
for.
“I have opposed (tuition tax cred
its) all my professional career.”
Wright had planned to retire this
spring after his 60th birthday, but
the Dallas school board asked him to
stay for the 1987-88 school year. It is
already searching for his successor.
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PORT O’CONNOR (AP) —
Shrimpers in Matagorda Bay on
Tuesday found the body of a 2-
year-ola boy who died in a boat
ing accident that also took the life
of his 1-year-old sister, officials
said.
The bo ; y ? s body: was floating in
th$ hgy. jpear Ii\diaoola when
shrimpers spotted it Tuesday
morning, said Donna Kearns, a
dispatcher with the Calhoun
County Sheriffs Department.
After their 40-foot shrimp boat
sank Saturday afternoon, his
family of seven used the roof of
the boat’s cabin as a makeshift
raft, Kearns said.
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Jury indicts company owner
for death of trench worker
AUSTIN (AP) — The owner of a
company that has paid fines for
safety violations at its construction
sites has been indicted in connection
with the death of a worker killed in a
trench collapse.
The Travis County grand jury
Monday charged Joe Bland, owner
of Bland Construction Co., with
criminally negligent homicide in the
April 21 death of Victor Nazario.
Gregorio Reza and Isidro Flores,
supervisors for Bland, also were in
dicted on that charge.
The indictments were the third
action taken this year by County At
torney Ken Oden’s office against
Travis County construction compa
nies whose workers have died in
trench collapses.
Federal regulations require con
struction companies to provide shor
ing or to slope the sides of trenches
more than 5 feet deep, and to pro
vide ladders in trenches so workers
can escape a collapse.
Nazario, 46, was killed at a Bland
construction site in North Austin.
He was buried under about 12 feet
of dirt and rock where waste-water
lines were being installed for a pri
vate devefoper.
An attorney for Bland did not re
turn phone calls.
The federal Occupational Safety
and Health Administration has cited
the company for violating federal
safety standards four times in the
past year, including Nazario’s death.
OSH A fined the company $1,260
in Nazario’s death, and cited it for
failing to protect workers with shor
ing or other supports. Bland has ap
pealed that finding.
Since May 1986, the company has
paid $3,850 in fines for safety viola
tions at three other Austin construc
tion sites. Nazario’s death was the
first injury related to the violations.
Last month Oden won a $20,000
judgment against Peabody South
west, a Houston construction com
pany whose representatives pleaded
guilty to criminally negligent homi
cide in the 1985 cave-in death of an
Austin worker.
On Feb. 16, Sabine Consolidated
Inc. and its president, Joseph Tan-
tillo, each pleaded no contest to a
single charge of criminally negligent
homicide in the cave-in death of a
worker in 1985.
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WICHITA FALLS (AP) — Amid frequent
bursts of applause and some jeers, U.S. Rep.
Beau Boulter presented Lt. Col. Oliver North’s
controversial pro-Contra slide show to an over
flow audience at Midwestern State University.
Boulter, an Amarillo Republican and staunch
supporter of the Contras, narrated the show
Monday night with what he said was the script
North used in his testimony before a congressio
nal committee investigating the Iran-Contra
arms deal.
North could not show the actual slides because
: of technical restrictions, but did give an im
promptu presentation based on the slides during
the televised Iran-contra hearings.
“(Col. North) wanted to show the slides to the
committee, but he was not permitted to do so,”
Boulter said.
“If these slides had been damaging to the pres
ident . . . damaging to the Contras or damaging
to the president’s policies, they would have found
a way to show them,” he said.
Boulter was accompanied at the presentation
by a State Department official, Jim Lewis, who
answered questions about the Contras.
Much of the presentation centered on aerial
photographs of alleged communist military bases
in Central America, mostly in Nicaragua. Nearly
a dozen slides offered mug shots of Sandinista
leaders superimposed over selected quotes es
pousing communist philosophy.
Boulter read North’s plea not to abandon his
cause as the presentation ended with a slide of a
wooden cross marking what was said to be the
grave of a Nicaraguan Contra.
Toward the end of the show, Boulter’s narra
tive moved to the subject of alleged human rights
violations committed by both the Contras and the
Sandinistas.
Lewis told the audience that the human rights
record of the Contras was at least five times bet
ter than that of the Sandinistas.
At least one member of the audience dis
agreed with Boulter, saying the situation in Nica
ragua is far too complicated to be reduced to an
us-or-them situation.
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