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Show r Thanday. fUrtk j. Tto Daily Utah Chroaicle - $ 199 Leaders Forge Agreement on School Standards - As PALISADES, N.Y. (AP) President Clinton complained about giving students "free passes' to the next grade, the nation's governors ended a two-daeducation summit Wednesday with a pledge to set tough academic standards in their states. Clinton said students, teachers and schools need to be more accountable, and the governors promised to set up, within the next two years, tests that will assess whether students arc meeting higher standards in their states. After partisan bickering, the governors issued a policy statement aimed at rekindling the academic standards movement in the s states a campaign, not one coming from Washington. "The choice is clear," said Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson, ' chairman of the National Governors Association, who led the summit with IBM Corp. Chairman Louis Gerstncr. "By setting standards for our schools, our students will graduate with the skills they need to y late-nig- ht six-pag- e grass-root- "They will know how to write, how to read and how to compute, as well as how to comprehend. They will be able to command good jobs, good wages." At the summit, 49 business leaders agreed to look at the high school transcripts of prospective hires, push parents to get involved in schools and play an active role in getting technology in the classroom. They also agreed to make a state's academic standards and student performance a higi priority in deciding where to build or expand operations. Efforts to reach a consensus nearly collapsed early Wednesday. Some conservative Republican governors, including Virginia's George Allen, threatened not to sign the policy statement because they thought it did not adequately acknowledge state control over education. "There were a few governors who stomped around," Thompson said. "I even lost my temper." The governors of Alabama, Arkansas, California, Arizona, . Hawaii, Louisiana, Maine, Montana and Minnesota did not attend the summit. At their first education summit, in Charlottesville, Va., in 1989, the governors agreed on six national goals for education. The goals included getting students proficient in certain core courses and assessing their academic performance. The first summit led to a federally subsidized project to get standards established for basic subjects, but the effort lost steam after critics raised questions about the content of some of the standards. Others were uncomfortable with the idea of national standards, which were replaced with state standards at this summit. In his keynote address, Clinton expressed no support for stepping up the federal role in education. He conceded that efforts to set national standards for certain subjects, such as history and English, have failed, although ones for math and science have been more widely embraced. "I think we ought to have stan dards," Clinton told the governors. "You should set them. We'll support you however you want. But they won't work unless there arc consequences. You have to reward good teachers and facilitate the removal of " those who aren't performing." Clinton said he thinks the states need to require students to pass tests to graduate from elementary, middle and high schools. Only Arkansas and four other states require such tests, he said. Republican Gov. Tom Ridge of Pennsylvania called Clinton a supporter of the status quo in education. "Clinton is praised as a pioneer for getting testing in Arkansas," Ridge said. "I'm going to go back and see how tough those tests arc and sec how die reading and math proficiencies have gone up since he tested them." The governors and business leadup an indepen- ers also agreed to set dent, nongovernmental effort to measure and report each state's annual progress in setting standards. To review student academic progress, the group agreed to explore the use of an international assessment. Details about this entity that Thompson has called the "war room" or "clearinghouse" arc to be outlined within 90 days, likely under the close scrutiny of Republican governors. "I don't want this to turn into a not audiority diat die riits of something usuips the people or die states in charting the course of their own schools" Allen said. "I don't want it to be some sujx:r school board that says if you want to put standards in, you have to go through us." DEB RIECHMANN AP Education Writer - Your ErBs... niHG Student Health Service AIDS from page 2 it," says Mayhew. The foundation's Outreach Team indialso personally targets high-ris- k it brings information and viduals condoms to people on the street, in bars and at concerts. 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