Show t A3 NATIONWORLD Saturday January The Salt Lake Tribune Bl School Report Makes Pitch for A Higher Curve 1 JUL IjISI — A govern- ment advisory panel Friday recommended a voluntary national standard curriculum and tests to spur American schoolchildren to levels perform at world-clas- s "We're saying to the nation 'We need to raise our educational standards' " said Gov Roy Romer of Colorado of the National Council on Education Standards and Testing In a report to Congress the council recommended that states be offered — but not required to adopt — a national curriculum to raise the standards of American schools to that of other industrialized nations The curriculum would be linked to a "voluntary system of assessments" under which tests would be designed to determine whether students were meeting the tougher standards "We have as a nation said it is time that we arrive collectively at what it is that youngsters should know and be able to do" Romer said at a news conference "We'll not only say this is what we ought to know and be able to do but we'll try to define how good is good companying its first defense budget since the collapse of the Soviet Union according to draft documents The list targets such items as a planned upgrade for the l tank Tomcat jet and work on the millions of dollars earmarked for research at universities This year's list of proposed cuts reported in Friday's Washington M-- F-1- Zeroes In on Defense Budget 4 major military spending cuts Tuesday night in his State of the Union address "I can't tell you where it will turn out but it's irresponsible just to grab numbers out of the air without having analysis behind it" Nunn said at a news conference in his office Nunn said defense spending can be cut beyond the 25 percent reduction over five years that the administration proposed and Congress endorsed last year "The question is whether we're D-G- a ate Majority Leader George Mitchell of Maine and Sen Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts have called for cuts ranging from $100 billion to $210 billion over five to seven years with the money going to going to do it in a rational way ' based on the potential threats we see or whether we're going to do what seems to be happening now and that is everybody figure out' how much money they want to spend on their favorite program ' Bush also is expected to propose grams or tax cuts are premature because there has been no detailed analysis of threats remaining in the world after the collapse of the Soviet Union While Nunn mentioned no specific proposals several leading Democrats including Sen- Post and later obtained by The Associated Press is an early draft President Bush will send up the final list with the fiscal 1993 defense budget Wednesday If the House and Senate fail to reject the list within 45 days the money would remain in the Pentagon accounts with the decision on how to spend it left to the defense secretary Meanwhile Sam Nunn chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee said Friday that proposals for broad cuts in defense spending to finance domestic pro THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — The Bush administration will propose cuts of about $4 billion from current military programs in a hit list ac- THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON TT 25 1992 anti-recessi- or their favorite tax cut and then say we're going to cut the defense budget" he said rrrrrrrrr mom er TOSHIBA — TRUE enough" The panel however rejected a mandatory national curriculum and tests because of fears over the possible loss of control of schools to the federal government "We are not advocating a national curriculum" said South Carolina's Gov Carroll Campbell the panel's other "Standards in the five core subjects will provide the basic understanding that all students need to acquire but not everything a student should learn" The five core subjects are English math science geography and history but the report suggested that the national curriculum eventually be extended to include the humanities and the arts Campbell said the panel's intent was "to raise the ceiling for students who are currently above average and to lift the floor for those who now experience the least success in school" Education Secretary Lamar Alexander who was presented with a copy of the report said the Education Department would give it "top priority" Halt Building Baker Urges Israeli Envoy Hz IBM z 3S6SX-16MH- WITH S0MB HD MODEM SOFTWARE & MORE! 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