The Clarksdale Press Register from Clarksdale, Mississippi • 12

12 Friday Afternoon, July 21, 1989 THE CLARKSDALE PRESS REGISTER Education consultant who helped Winter works on new reform package "don't have to start from scratch," Wilson said. "They know what the problems are. Jack always maintained contact with people in the state. He's always been very interested what we were doing," she added. Brezius, who in 1982 worked out of Lexington, could not be reached for comment Thursday.

The amount of his contract with the governor's office was unavailable. But Brezius and other consultants have spent much of the summer conducting one-on-one inter1 views and brainstorming sessions with people across the state. Wilson said they have deliberately avoided professional educators. "They're just trying to find out what the public thinks ought to be included in Education Reform II. What should the priorities be? What should we look at first?" she said.

Mabus has hinted that he will call a special legislative session this fall to deal with the new JACKSON (AP) A Pennsylvania education consultant who helped design the Education Reform Act of 1982 is back in Mississippi to help Gov. Ray Mabus work on his education reform pdCkfl6. The Mabus administration has hired Jack Brezius to help gather ideas for the Education Reform Act II, which Mabus is expected to unveil next month. "He is not new to education reform in Mississippi," said Pickett Wilson, an education specialist for Mabus. "He did an outstanding job in 1982." From the Education Reform Act of 1982 came Mississippi's first public kindergarten program, upgraded teacher salaries and certification criteria and reading aides for elementary classrooms.

Mabus has said that the next wave of reforms will focus on such issues as adult illiteracy, strengthened remedial education, early childhood and college-level education programs, and social problems that impede learning. With helD from Brezius. the government and education reform package. Some legislators have expressed doubts, however, that public support education officials helping design the new reforms really exists for Mabus' ideas. 10 BIG DAYS LEFT! Hurry While Prices Are Right! tawy Nabors of Nabors Inc.

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Repairs will be made at the Coffeeville Lock while routine inspection and maintenance is Molpus elected JACKSON (AP) The National Association of Secretaries of State elected Dick Molpus vice president of the organization yesterday. "I'm very honored by this vote of confidence from other secretaries of state," Molpus said after the election at the group's national convention in Vail, Colo. Molpus served as treasurer for the association in the past year. Members are secretaries of state from the SO U.S. states, Guam, Puerto Rico, American Samoa and the Virgin Islands.

Molpus, who took office in 1984, said his office has returned nearly $3.5 million to the states general fund. COLUMBUS (AP) High water on the Black Warrior-Tombigbee River system in southern Alabama is playing havoc with plans to close two locks on the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway this summer, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says. Closures of the Coffeeville Lock in south Alabama and the Bevill and Bay Springs locks on the Tenn-Tom waterway were scheduled to begin over the next few weeks for routine checks. Furniss named to committee Representative Delma Furniss of Rena Lara has been named to serve on an interim study committee in the Mississippi House of Representatives on cataloging lands in the state.

The special committee, announced by Speaker Tim Ford, is expected to look into such matters as how much land is currently owned by the state, where the property is located, and purposes for which it is being used. Besides exploring ways to better utilize existing land, the committee may also study the feasibility of converting all such land under the auspices of one body. At this time, that responsibility is shared by many different state agencies. Ford picked JACKSON (AP) House Speaker Tim Ford has been elected vice chairman of the Southern Growth Policies Board, which develops strategies for economic development in the South. Ford, who represents Lee and Prentice counties in the Mississippi House of Representatives, succeeds Representative Dan Lilley of North Carolina.

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