
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SUNDAY, September 19, 1993                   TAG: 9309170006
SECTION: CURRENT                    PAGE: NRV-2   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
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IS BOARD MEMBER SURE OF TERRY'S STANCE?

I hope Chip Craig, a Radford School Board member, is not too optimistic. His response to Lew Sheckler's concerns that Outcome-Based Education may become a statewide mandate was to indicate this program is dead in its present form. Craig said he believes Joseph Spagnolo, state superintendent of education and a chief promoter of Outcome-Based Education "will not be back after Jan. 1, no matter who is elected governor."

Craig's comments conveyed the opinion that both Mary Sue Terry and George Allen are opposed to this dangerous, flawed education program. Is Craig's opinion correct? Perhaps not.

Allen has expressed strong public opposition to Outcome-Based Education, but Terry has not. As a part of the current state administration, she has done nothing to stop or slow the effort to impose this program throughout our state. She has offered no opposition and raised no serious questions. Outcome-Based Education will not be forced on our schoolchildren if Allen is elected. Terry's behavior gives us no such assurance at all.

I hope Craig is not too optimistic about Terry. I am inclined to believe he is.\ Mary Rigney\ Radford

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