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AD SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER A-10 Friday, May 4. 1990 65-pound tumor taken from woman Sfadtemife leave larilands ASSOCIATED PRE S3 for aM amen hills sctte Dr. William J. Garoni her surgeon. After a 3V4-hour operation April 25, Garoni removed the benign tumor.

After Caron's surgery, the 5-foot-6 Jacksonville woman weighed 205 pounds, Garoni said. "I can see my feet," she said from her hospital bed. "To lay in bed and see my feet is really neat" might be having a heart attack, asked her daughter to take her to the emergency room at St. Vincent's Medical Center last week. An electrocardiogram showed no problems, and the pain subsided.

But a CAT scan showed that Caron had an ovarian tumor, said JACKSONVILLE, Fla. A 65-pound tumor has been removed from the abdomen of a woman who was admitted to the hospital after suffering chest pains. Sandy Caron, 47, thinking she One-fifth of pupils go to class away from their homes By Charles Hardy OF THE EXAMNER STAFF OAKLAND So many students are transferring from their assigned schools in search of better educational opportunities elsewhere in the district that schools left behind are suffering, officials say. One-fifth of the district's 51,000 students attend schools outside their assigned areas, most of them leaving flatland schools in predominantly low-income areas for schools in the more-affluent hills, says Superintendent Richard "Pete" Mesa, "That's a very high figure, about four times the normal amount," said Mesa, who had imposed a one-month limit on applying for transfers and has recommended that the board adopt guidelines in an attempt to "keep students at their home schools." But both the time limit and the recommendation met with quick and strong opposition from parents and school board members. 'Z I Mr i If thing," Mesa said.

"If you are, say, in one part of town and the level of education is very high, you probably would have children that score very high on tests, but that doesn't mean that the poor children that go to the hill schools are going to do better than in other schools with poor children, i "In a lot of cases, poor children and minority children might do better in flatland schools where programs are designed for them. The question is, what kind of students do the schools do better with?" Lawson and her school board colleagues say they will make a policy decision on the transfer issue, but they're not sure when. Meanwhile, Mesa says he will "back off our original recommendation and review it more closely." School officials say the transfer rate is so great that students who move to an area often cannot attend their neighborhood school because all the slots are taken by transferees. "You cant fault the effort of parents to provide the best education for their children," Mesa said. "But it causes a reduction in the quality of the schools that they leave.

Some people argue that that's an impetus for improving those schools." Lawson contends the only solution is long-range planning to ensure that schools offer the same academic programs with comparable physical plants and teaching staffs. "Then," said Lawson, "I think we've got to do something about the security around our schools so parents will be comfortable with their children going to these schools. "We have to deal with all of that to have parents bring their kids back to the situation they have rejected. This is not a quick-fix type of situation and we cant deal with it by demanding that they bring kids back to flatland schools." j) fl KCly 1 placement" policy that is supposed to restrict the number of transfers. Students are to be permitted to leave schools in their attendance boundary for reasons ranging from child-care needs for small children to the availability of courses not offered at home schools.

Before this policy, Oakland had an "open enrollment" system that allowed parents to send children to schools anywhere in the city without providing a reason. Part of the motivation was to allow schools in the predominantly white hills to be integrated voluntarily. But the need and that policy gave way to the current transfer system in the late 1970s. Whatever the system is called, Oakland parents know how to get their students into hill schools, says Darlene Lawson, the school board's senior member. "Even if it wasnt open enrollment," she said, "people were putting their kids in hill schools by.

changing their address." i is one of the school board members who rejected the administration's recommendation that the transfer policy be made more restrictive and that many transfer students be returned to schools in their attendance areas. "A lot of the people who have moved their kids out of the flatland schools would never move their kids back into the flatland schools because of the unequal education being offered in flatland schools," Lawson said. "Until the administration is ready to address the issue of making schools equal educationally in terms of how the plant looks, the teaching situation with new and veteran teachers being distributed equally between the flatland and hills I don't think those parents will be interested in bringing their children back down. "To me, it's telling parents we're going to put your kids back down there and we don't consider whether they get a good education or not" School officials on both sides of the issue seem to agree on one 1 ic e3 I i NOT INCLUDED O'm tcwr awn Ci rc Account Today Suk'ttoCreMAppvvat A parents' backlash Many parents complained the March 15 to April 15 "window" for seeking transfers was too short and said any attempt to restrict their children to inferior flatland schools would be rejected. "The people who argue that, open enrollment allows them to go to schools where they can get a better education have a point," Mesa said.

"But there are parents who feel their Bchools are losing motivated students and many who view this spree of transfers as a lowering of the quality of local programs." School officials say that Oak i A ifA'iiikw of Diamond, 1'I29 i My mm i MA' i- 9M-2nf)0 4b3-831t 30 land actually does not have open enrollment, but rather a "special thing: There is a disparity in the educational' programs offered in hill schools which generally score much higher on state achievement tests and flatland schools. Are transfers the answer? Despite that, Mesa says, hill school education may not be best for all students. "Test scores don't tell every Big hash bust in Beirut ASSOCIATED PRESS BEIRUT Authorities at Beirut airport arrested several people and seized 400 pounds of hashish hidden in boxes marked as books bound for West Germany, police reported. I tan I 1 2 5 3 I r4 IS? Preoare DRILL TAP ANCHOR TIGHTEN NUT L. for nt CAM TLIDrtl IALJ CLEAN II 9.XTIIOMQ THROUGH i A HOLE QUAKE FIXTURE INTO HOLE 7j NOW! CONCRETE ANCHORS FASTENERS WHOLESALE TO PUBLIC HARRISON BONNINI, INC.

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