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19 THE BOSTON GLOBE MONDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1992 Weld touts fiscal changes to GOP group The Problem AIL FUiJCUG The Solution FUNGI HAIL sharing with the taxpayers of the political success and fiscal success we've been able to have." Weld has been criticized by Democrats who say he is eliminating significant government programs, particularly social services, to feed programs for the wealthy. Critics have called his $192 million tax-cut plan, unveiled last month, and other plans to stimulate the economy "dreadful" and "overly optimistic." But Weld ridiculed the methods of past Democratic administrations as he boasted of his own success in holding down taxes, including his fight against extending a temporary income tax increase. "We made that the first temporary tax in history that turned out to be a temporary tax," he said. Efforts to lure businesses Weld now wants to return $140 million to taxpayers by cutting the income tax rate by 0.2 percent; to phase out the capital gains tax for long-term investments; and to offer several tax breaks for business investments and job training Critics have complained that Weld's plan will return no more than a few dollars a week to middle-class taxpayers and that it will not create new jobs. But Weld asserted that businesses will be inspired to cate in Massachusetts if the state is cutting taxes at a time when others are raising them.

"I'm getting business plans from New Hampshire companies looking to relocate in Massachusetts, to expand in Massachusetts," Weld said. "Before 1990, those plans were going in the other direction." The error of the past, Weld contended, has been "throwing money at a problem after we have permitted it to grow up," instead of investing in areas that produce returns such as education. He blamed the mistakes on Democrats. "I am a member of that Republican generation that felt there must be something wrong with me," Weld said of his political inclinations in the 1960s. "Everything in the papers praised the social programs of Lyndon Johnson that just seemed upside down and backwards to me." He recalled how, at first, he had a hard time winning converts to his political beliefs.

He said he left his law firm in 1978 to run for attorney general only to lose by more than a million votes, "a record that endures to this day." He said that while Republicans had a hard time beating Democrats in "the past, those who were successful were those who "kept banging away." "As the decades wore on, we began to feel less like an endangered species," Weld said. "The only reason the Democrats soared past us in the '50s, '60s, and '70s, is that they had a farm team and they kept banging away." Republicans now have the same type of grass-roots machinery at their disposal, packaged with the promise of fiscal security, Weld concluded. "It's an exciting time to be a Republican on Beacon Hill," he said. "I think tax policy is very exciting and it's the determining difference in the parties this year." 9A01 pr.nnomy n90 1 l. ivrt PARTIAL i uasi hi 1 A A technical sales, systems engineering, contractsbusiness administration, computerdata processing, business applications, scientific or systems programming, ADA, IMS, COBOL, DB2, IDMS, DBDC, DBA, DBMS, UNIXC.

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With your experience in programming or management in for pupils critical of Weld's plan By Lauren Robinson GLOBE STAFF WOBURN Gov. Weld rallied GOP forces yesterday by defending his plan to cut taxes and assuring Republicans that a revolution is under way on Beacon Hill. "When people talk about tax packages on Beacon Hill now, they're talking about what taxes to cut, not what taxes to raise," Weld told about 250 members of the Committee for a United Republican Effort during their annual Lincoln Day breakfast at the Radisson Hotel. "The surest way to downsize government is to take the money away from the Legislature, because if it's not there they can't spend it." The governor told party members that their successes in the 1990 elections have been anchored by his attempts to fulfill campaign promises and make Massachusetts fiscally responsible. "Do not be do not go backwards," Weld said, quoting Lincoln.

He said his tax cuts are "more than just a jump start to the economy," they are "a Advocates REFORM Continued from Page 15 view of schools, but it's not the reality in many of our communities." The Weld administration's reform bill is the subject of ongoing private negotiations with Democratic legislative leaders. They are attempting to craft a compromise reform bill that will probably include pieces of plans for school improvement put forth by the Legislature's Joint Education Committee, the Massachusetts Business Alliance for Education and the governor. Legislative leaders said they hope to have a compromise ready for debate in the State House by May. Piedad Robertson, the secretary of education and the principal author of Weld's reform plan, could not be reached for comment last Friday. A spokeswoman said Robertson had not studied the analysis by the coalition of children's advocates.

"This is the first time we've seen this," said the spokeswoman, Maria Rodriguez. She added that the administration has "welcomed input from every interest group and this is the first time we've seen these particular concerns, so it's going to take a little bit of time to look at them. From a cursory glance, obviously we don't agree with all of it but we will study it further." Children's advocates said they plan on following up their initial analysis with more detailed studies of Weld's reform bill in an effort to stir widespread public discussion. "There is a concern that the governor's people and the Legislature will come up with a final bill, run it around the state for a week and then against minorities and poor children by excluding them from the best teaching. "By creating this tracking system where some kids are pushed out of either college preparatory or vocational education, not only is the report contradicting the research but it goes against the state Department of Education, which has come out against tracking," said Steven Bing, executive director of the Massachusetts Advocacy Center, who wrote the analysis.

Weld's proposal would require students to obtain, through various academic measurements, a certificate of initial mastery at age 16 in order to be permitted to enter either a college preparatory or a vocational program in secondary school. Students not securing the certificate would receive remedial academic services, be placed in an alternative education program or be referred to social services. Plan condemned as punitive "It's a very punitive approach and (based on) the classic notion that if a kid isn't doing well it means something is wrong with the kid, not the school," Bing said, referring to the proposal to refer students who are not achieving to social servics. Weld's reform bill also does not provide any details about the nature of the alternative education or remedial programs. "Does that mean that it's going to be a dead end track?" Rice said.

In addition, the bill says little about bilingual or special education, two of the most controversial programs in public education. The proposal simply calls for the creation of two separate commissions to study the programs. "li It li ii'i ft I 1 I in Hii i II1 Hifi: (, i iiim I "jJU fills mhmmmmtm iifaiiiiHi LUbiiil sign it," Rice said. "That's not the way you do school Not opposed to the rhetoric Advocates stress that they are not opposed to the rhetoric contained in Weld's reform proposal. "We seek educational excellence for aU children; we seek accountability by school systems and their personnel; and we seek school structures that are designed to insure both accountability and excellence," the coalition's analysis states.

"We do not believe that proposals contained in the bill will achieve these results. In fact, the proposals, if enacted, would ensure opposite outcomes." The groups involved in the coalition have been working for years on behalf of primarily low-income and ethnic minority students, youngsters with limited English proficiency and students with disabilities. The members of the coalition in clude the Massachusetts Advocacy Center, the Children's Law Center, the Massachusetts Law Reform Institute, the Center for Law and Education at Harvard University, the South Middlesex Legal Services, the Legal Assistance Corporation of Central Massachusetts, the Massachusetts Children's Councils and the Children's Law Project of Rox-bury of the Unitarian Universalist Urban Ministry. Fear sorting by tracking A major fear among advocates is that the student assessment proposal contained in Weld's bill will institutionalize the sorting of youngsters by academic proficiency, a practice known 'as tracking that some research has shown discriminates the past week to tell us that information," he said. "And the system worked.

We caught a number of peo-. pie who used the same credit card." He declined to specify how many. As for why the Garden sale took as long as hours, Moulter said, "Our goal was never speed. It was verification. We're right where we wanted to be." Such was the ticket demand that many well-intentioned fans still got shut out.

"I started calling, with re-dial, at 10 o'clock and worked the phone for a solid hour and a half," said John Beliveau of Cambridge. "I never got more than a busy signal, a return to dial tone or a message that all circuits are busy and please call back later. I gave up about 11:30 and tried again at noon no luck and again for laughs at 1 o'clock. Someone actually answered the phone and said the Centrum was sold out. But I never could get any response on the.

Garden line." Hampering chances further was the fact that only 13,000 Garden tickets versus the 15,500 of a typical concert sellout at the Garden were available. The reduction is because of the size of U2's stage, said Moulter, noting "they have a big ramp that goes into the middle of the crowd." "Who is this U2? I never heard of them before," said Waddell of New England Telephone. "I haven't heard the term U2 since the Second World Guess that just goes to show the age bracket I'm in." Phones rattle and hum in rush for U2 tickets DU2 Continued from Page 15 act figures were not yet available, but Moulter's information is consistent with a recent U2 sale in Atlanta, where more than 1 million calls, many from eager fans with automatic redial, were logged. "I don't really have a number. It's safe to say thousands, many thousands," said Peter Cronin, a spokesman for New England Telephone.

He admitted there were minor delays in getting a dial tone, but that it was "not a serious situation. If people stayed on the line, they'd get dial tone in a few seconds." Tickets for U2's Worcester Centrum concert for March 13 also went on sale yesterday at 10 a.m. That sale had a regular four-ticket per person limit and sold out more quickly, in just under an hour, said Tea Party's Borg. Ticketmaster, which processed the Centrum ticket requests, had 150 incoming phone lines working yesterday. Ticketpro, which handled the Garden tickets, had 100, said Moulter.

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