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State & Local Page 2 The Battalion Tuesday, October 1,1Sf College to participate in partnership program By Susan Maguire The Battalion Texas A&M's College of Edu cation will help restructure teach er education as part of a national program working with public schools. The College of Education will work with seven other colleges to improve public education through a partnership program, said Dr. Jane Stallings, dean of the A&M's College of Education. The program includes working closely with student teachers and the public school's administration. This format offers the most promise for developing the type of educators and school organization needed to serve the nation's chil dren, she said. A&M's education program was one of 275 schools that ap plied to participate in the pro gram. Other universities chosen include California Polytechnic State University, the University of Wyoming, Wheelock College in Massachusetts, Miami University in Ohio, Montclair State College, University of Washington and a South Carolina consortium of some of the state's small colleges. Dr. John Goodlad, director of the University of Washington's Center for Educational Renewal, is the program's coordinator. "I think we were chosen be cause we already have a relation ship with two schools in Houston who are our partners for develop ment of faculty and students," she said. "We are committed as a col lege of education to changing how we develop teachers, administra tion and school counselors. "Also, I think it helped that our president and provost are very supportive of the college," she said. During a weekend retreat for faculty leaders in all departments of the college, a member of Good- lad's staff spoke about restructur ing. This was followed by a sepa rate retreat for each department to discuss renewal efforts. "Given Our tight budget, the funds for the retreats came from the Goodlad grant," she said. The college has looked into forming partnerships with several other schools, Stallings said. "We have met with several schools and are forming partner ships with a school in Bryan ISD, Conroe and Houston," she said. "We expect to develop a relation ship with a school in College Sta tion." Stallings said because several faculty members have traveled to Seattle to talk with John Goodlad and his staff, the college is ready to do a self-examination of where it stands on each of the 19 recom mendations defined by Goodlad and his renewal program. The four main themes of the recommendations are award sys tems, diversity among faculty, curriculum renewal and school/university partnerships. "Based on the examination, we will set goals and begin develop ment," she said. The Center for Education Re newal was one of four educational restructuring initiatives men tioned in President Bush's "Amer ican 2000: An Education Strategy," an education proposal released in April by the George Bush and Lamar Alexander, U.S. Secretary of Education. Immigration institutes family unity program DALLAS (AP) — As of Tues day,' a large new group of people are eligible to apply to live in the United States, but a spokesman for one organization is warning that the applications could be used against them. The family unity program, which goes into effect Tuesday, is part of the Immigration Act of 1990. It replaces another program known as "family fairness," en acted last year by the U.S. Immi gration and Naturalization Ser vice. The new program reduces the amount of time that children and spouses of undocumented immi- gran ts who .. have received amnesty must have been in the United States to be eligible to be protected from deportation. The previous cutoff date was Nov. 6, 1986. Now, it's May 5,1988: Many immigrant families were facing separation after pas-: sage of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986. That law granted amnesty to undocument ed immigrants who could prove that they had lived in the country since before Jan. 1,1982. HUY NGUYENIfThe Battalion Monumental Mary Leigh Wolf (left), an assistant professor in agricultural engineering, and break in the shade of the System Administration Building in front of theA&M | Debbie Cook, an industrial engineering research scientist, spends their lunch campus Monday afternoon. < | ■ Houston man gets artificial heart pump HOUSTON (AP) - A Hous- ton-area man on Monday was re covering from a failing heart with the help of a portable, battery- powered heart pump implanted at the Texas Heart Institute. Michael Templeton of Humble is the second recipient of the elec trically powered device produced by Thermo CardioSystems Inc., a subsidiary of Thermedics Inc. of Woburn, Mass. The first recipient, Larry Hein- sohn, 52, of Shreveport, La., died two weeks after the device was implanted on May 9 at the insti tute. Physicians said at the time that Heinsohn's death was unre lated to the device. Templeton, an electronics worker, had the experimental de vice implanted in his abdomen Sept. 3 at the Texas Heart Institute. Environmental activists demand stricter rules for disposal permits AUSTIN (AP) — Protesters at a "tent city" out side the Texas Water Commission called on officials Monday to vote against new hazardous waste dis posal permits until stronger state rules can be devel oped. But Water Commission spokesman Bill Colbert said state law does not allow for such action by the agency, which he said has held up 16 to 18 permit applications during a temporary moratorium ap proved by lawmakers. Protesters at commission headquarters have set up several tents, hung a "Toxic City, Texas" banner and constructed a mock graveyard with tombstones displaying such epitaphs as, "Earl E. Graves" and "LM. Polluted." "It's a mock graveyard here, but there are real graveyards in our communities," said Rick Abra ham, executive director of Texans United. "Toxic waste in Texas is a serious problem ... Pollution in Texas has killed people, has destroyed families and communities." Lawmakers earlier approved a four-month moratorium on hazardous waste sites, while the commission worked on new rules. The law included guidelines for new agency rules on grantingha; ardous waste disposal permits. That moratorium is to end Wednesday, whentkl Water Commission votes on its proposed new regt I lations. But environmental activists, who plan to stay si their tent city through Wednesday, say the no rules do not go far enough. For example, they sav: I is insufficient to allow, only a half-mile 'buffer zone; between hazardous waste disposal sites and honK or schools. Colbert said that the agency must follow the Ian "I dare say if we attempted to impose a nen moratorium, it would not take a court very long: consider an appeal by a regulated industry to han that lifted," Colbert said. He said that the proposed rules track the lawainl are stronger than past ones. Monte Janssen of the Texas Chemical Council called the protesters' request "somewhat absurd He said that denying permits for hazardous waste disposal sites will not eliminate the need forcompa nies to get rid of such waste. Considering the December LSAT? You should talk to Stanley H. Kaplan. 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