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Jlxihi --J A'' ONE school decision-making urged S4 Richmond Time-Dispatch Friday March 20 1987 Parental involvement in ment in the daily life of schools Parents felt unwelcome in the Mrs Belter said as the congress and state board held their annual joint session The state board winds up three days of meetings today Many have interpreted the failure to support the call of the Commission cm Excellence for voluntary preschool programs far 4-year-olds as outright opposition protested former Sen Adelard Brault of Fairfax now a member of the education board All board members served as members of the excellence commission named last year by Gov Gerald Baliles Brault heads a panel trying to decide how to implement the preschool recommendation PTAs generally support recommendations of the excellence commission notably those backing smaller classes and better-trained treachers Dorothy Schrag chairwoman of the congress's education committee told the state board But many members believe that 4-year-olds be at home with their she added the parents are at interjected board Chair committee pleaded for involvement of parents in the development of a curriculum that stresses reasons young people should postpone sexual relations The congress backs that kind of sex education in every school in Virginia Prompted by reports of rising teen-age sexual activity and acquired immune deficiency syndrome statistics the 1987 General Assembly directed the Board of Education to develop new sex education programs and if it sees fit require them to be installed in all localities Speaking for PTA members in Tidewater Dolores Delaney lamented that the legislature killed a bill requiring school officials who spot drug and drinking problems to notify parents of the children involved According to Mrs Delaney 28000 12-year-olfa in Virginia believe their friends smoke marijuana 20000 think alcohol is a problem among their friends She reported that 40000 state high school seniors probably smoke marijuana or hashish 6000 use hallucinogens and 13000 have used cocaine By Charles Cox Thnes-Diipateh eUacattoa writer Parents are ready to join educators as in the education of their children says the Virginia Congress ofParenta and Teachers The days when parents were content to serve only as volunteers is long past congress President Catherine A Belter told the state Board of Education yesterday Speaking for the 275000 members she asked the board to urge local school superintendents to more information to parents about the curriculum and take steps to invite parents to become involved in the decision-making Superintendents and principals traditionally co-opt or ignore parent-teacher groups when it comes to planning or running local schools Several recent national studies have pleaded for change saying parents must become involved and school officials must get used to the idea of direct parent involve man WL Lemmon of Marion Many parents have outside jobs Brault said he thought that the preschool recommendation designed to give youngsters from poor families some hope of academic success and to reduce the multimillion-dollar dropout bills was probably the most important thing to come out of the excellence commission The congress might support the program another year Mrs Schrag hinted She added that the commission's literacy passport idea requiring middle school children to pass literacy tests before being promoted sounds like too little too late Blow attention to basic skills in the elementary grades is needed she argued Youngsters will get that attention if the board adopts his latest proposals for better schools putting for more stress on reading and writing at every level said Dr John Davis state superintendent of public instruction The board is expected to adopt the standards by midsummer Linda Hoseenlopp chairwoman of the health i Daughter reports couple in drug case Road-widening expenditures may double FAIRFAX (UPI) Widening state Route 28 from two to eight lanes along its 15-mile stretch from western Fairfax County to Manassas could cost nearly twice what had been projected and plans may have to be revised a new study shows The study put the total cost of the project as high as $314 million nearly twice the 3160 million projected and enough to make an expansion to four lanes a more likely alternative offi- dais said The 3160 million cost was to be paid in part by a new commercial tax agreed to by the state General Assembly last session when the original state Route 28 project was presented The legislation which still has to be signed by Gov Gerald Baliles would raise about 360 million for state Route 28 improvements It calls for commercial landowners along Route 28 and in the area expected to benefit from the road improvements to pay an extra 20 percent on property taxes The latest study was prepared by County Executive Hamilton Lambert It projected construction costs at $190 5 million and the cost of purchasing land to expand to eight lanes at an additional 31235 million But Lambert said projected costs could be cut if Washington! Dulles International Airport and some developers who would gain from the expansion donate portions of the land Continued from first page she decided to do this to get some help for them trying to get back at the parents she was trying to help the According to Maddra the incident began about 1 pm Wednesday when Brandy told a aide about the alleged drug use A DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) program in the school helped her make this to report her parents he said The aide then told a teacher who referred the complaint to a social worker who informed police To erase any skepticism about the story Maddra said police interviewed the girl extensively felt that the information was truthful and honest and she knew exactly what she had seen and what she was talking Maddra said described the marijuana and how it was being smoked what it looked like what the pipes looked like Everything she told us was right on the In an affidavit to secure a warrant to search the family's two-story residence an investigator asserted that Brandy said her mother refers to her smoking as smoking pot Not only has Brandy seem them smoking marijuana but also described several of drug paraphernalia Upon executing 'the search warrant police seized various items including five 18-inch marijuana plants two small pipes three scales and a ceramic smoking device along with other paraphernalia according to Maddra and the search warrant The couple which had earlier been told by a worker with the Department of Social Services that it had assumed custody of the girl were then arrested would say they were Maddra said but added: take any statements from In October 1984 Parady was sentenced to a year in jail after being convicted in Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court of two charges of battery of a minor The case was appealed to the Chesterfield Circuit Court where Parady received a suspended 12-month sentence in January 1985 under a plea agreement There had been a history of contact between social service workers and the family Maddra said but he declined to elaborate Brandy was informed of the consequences of her parents being arrested Maddra said knew all about what was going to he added said 'Even though going to happen it's still something I feel I need to do for my mother and Mrs Parady was released mi bond from the Chesterfield County JaiL Her husband was still in custody there yesterday with bond set at 334000 in cash or 368000 in real estate Staff photo by Kevin Mortey HONORED Those inducted were (seated) Lois left) James Latimer Jeff MacNelly and David Watkins and Tennant Bryan and (rear from Martin Communications Hall of Fame inducts MacNelly four others miss the i i 1 I i i i Fund honors newsman A scholarship endowment in memory of the late Virginia newspaperman and broadcaster George A Bowles Jr was announced last night by the Virginia News Network where Bowles served as state capitol correspondent and commentator for nine years Bowles worked for the Virginia News Network from January 1977 until his death March 9 1986 He also wrote a weekly political column that was published in dozens of smalltown Virginia papers Earlier in the mid-1970s he was editorial page editor of the Charlottesville Daily Progress The AJ Fletcher Foundation of Raleigh NC a public foundation made a 35000 gift to begin the endowment The foundation was created by AJ Fletcher the founder of Capitol Broadcasting Co which owns the Virginia News Network WRNL WRXL radio in Richmond and WNVZ radio in Virginia Beach The endowment money was contributed to the Richmond SPJSDX Educational Foundation a tax-exempt foundation created by the Richmond Professional Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists Sigma Delta Chi when it averaged six pages and had 600 subscribers When she retired in 1984 circulation topped 10000 Her husband died in 1951 and Mrs Watkins continued as publisher She is the first woman to be honored as a Hall of Fame inductee of the 1987 honorees was made difficult by the exceptionally high quality of the nominations made by individuals throughout the mass communications community of interest" said George Crutchfield director of VCU's School of Mass Communications He said the five were chosen from a field of 80 nominees Previous inductees include author Tom Wolfe television newsman Roger Mudd former Times-Dispatch editor Virginius Dabney VCU professor emeritus Edmund Arnold Donald Gonzales the retired senior vice president of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Harry Jacobs vice chairman of the Martin Agency and John Tansey former general manager of WRVA in Richmond Honored posthumously in 1986 were James Cargill Richmond's first Advertising Man of the Year Pulitzer Prize-winner Lenoir Chambers Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Douglas Southall Freeman and John Mitchell who edited the Richmond Planet for nearly half a century A special gold medallion was presented to last night's inductees and will be-presented to the 11 people inducted last year the Chicago Tribune and the comic strip has won three Pulitzer Prizes James Latimer a retired reporter for The Times-Dispatch who became Virginia's premier political reporter during a career that spanned four decades Latimer who retired in 1981 still occasionally writes for The Times-Dispatch and is often seen at the Capitol when the General Assembly is in session David Martin chairman of Marketing Arts Corp which owns the Martin Agency of Richmond the state's largest advertising agency Martin founded the Martin Agency in 1965 with one account and a staff of three It currently does more than 365 million worth of work annually Prior to founding the agency Martin spent more than 10 years with other companies Lois Watkins the retired publisher of the Herald-Progress a weekly newspaper in Hanover County Mrs Watkins and her husband Paul bought the newspaper in 1933 Roanoke TV station can keep call letters ROANOKE (UPI) A federal judge ruled yesterday that a new Roanoke television station won't have to change its call letters The new independent cable station WVFT was taken to court last week by the public radio station WVTF The radio station sought an injunction to keep the television station from using the call letters The chairman of Media General Inc a three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist who once worked for The Richmond News Leader and a former political reporter for The Richmond Times-Dispatch were among five people inducted into the Virginia Communications Hall of Fame last night The Hall of Fame was established in 1985 at Virginia Commonwealth University to honor Virginians who have made outstanding long-term contributions to journalism and other fields of communications or those born elsewhere who have become associated with Virginia communications Last year 11 people became the first inductees including four posthumously This inductees were honored at a black-tie dinner at the Jefferson Sheraton Hotel last night They were: Tennant Bryan chairman of Media General a diversified communications company that owns Richmond Newspapers Inc which publishes The Richmond News Leader and The Richmond Times-Dispatch Bryan began his career in 1928 as a reporter for The News Leader and has been chairman of Media General since it was formed in 1969 Bryan a native Richmonder also has been active in newspaper-related organizations and committees including having been president Of the American Newspaper Publishers Association Jeffrey MacNelly who was editorial cartoonist for The News Leader from 1970 to 1981 MacNelly who now draws political cartoons for your chance to win big bucks each FRIDAY in THE RICHMOND NEWS LEADER Pick one up at a convenient newsstand or del 644-4181 for home delivery 2 ex JOIN US FOR OUR FRIDAY SATURDAY NIGHT BUFFET WAREHOUSE SALE to 50 SAVINGS Diversity is the hallmark of women's fashions for spring-summer 1987 From "challenging classics with a nautical or safari theme to new alternatives in career -wear 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