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Show Sunday, September THE HERALD, Provo, Utah, 11, 1988 Teachers believe ihey have little say in school matters By LEE MUGANG AP Education Writer NEW YORK (AP) Except for choosing texts and shaping the curriculum, most teachers feel left out of critical decisions affecting classroom life, according to a na. - tionwide released poll Saturday. "Ten percent or fewer of 21,698 public school teachers surveyed by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advanc-ment of Teaching felt they had any say in issues like teacher evaluation or selection of new teachers and administrators. Just 20 percent believed they were influential in tailoring school budgets. "The report endorses what I have often said that teachers are treated like very tall children instead of prod fessionals," said Mary A Futrell, president of the National Education Association, the nation's largest teacher union with 1.9 million members. On the positive side, 79 percent of those surveyed said they felt involved in report on the results, "Teacher Involvement in Decisionmaking: A Profile," revealed wide disparities in the degree of involvement teachers felt in different states. In Vermont, for example, 93 percent of teachers reported a high level of involvement in choosing textbooks, 85 percent said they helped shape the curriculum, and 50 percent said they were involved in setting student pro- choosing structional materials, and 63 percent said they had a say in shaping the curriculum. But only 63 percent of Louisiana teachers said they helped choose texts, 40 per textbooks and YONKERS, N.Y. (AP) Raced with $1 million-a-da- y fines and layoffs of hundreds of municipal workers, the City d Council approved a housing desegregation plan Saturday after two members switched their votes. court-ordere- jAs an emotional crowd looked on, the council approved the plan by a 2 vote about 1:30 a.m., after a month iA which escalating fines for refusing to endorse the plan threatened the state's fourth-largecity with bankruptcy. ; Secretary of State Gail Shaffer, head of the state board triat took control of the city's 5-- st finances, suspended the layoffs of 447 city employees after the vote. "This morning, the healing process begins," she said. "A new chapter in the history of Yonkers can and must begin." Gov. Mario Cuomo said the council "did the right thing." Two of the four councLlmen who had long opposed the plan voted for it after city officials "In the past, we have thought of those fines somewhat in the abstract. ... The abstract has now become a reality," said Councilman Nicholas Longo, one of those who changed his vote. "The thing that most affected me was looking over a list of people who at the stroke of midnight would become unemployed." low-inco- District Judge Leonard U.S. Sand to adopt the modified plan in place of his original order, which he had enforced with fines that hit $1 million a administration WASHINGTON The (AP) is effort to rjromising an all-otjlock new curbs on textile, Apparel and shoe imports approved by the Senate, even if iKmeans a presidential veto just weeks before the November elections, Reagan ut Yeutter said Friday follow2 Senate approval of ing tighter import restrictions. K. nest F. Hollings, 57-3- Oz. Cans 2 Allen's roro1 POTATO CHIPS 3D -- IHIHS t A CHOCOLATE CHIPS which occurred about 4:30 p.m. about 15 miles south of here. The highway was closed D-S.- C, for 9V2 Semi Sweet or Milk Chocolate 11 to 12 Oz. 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