NJN News; Tuesday September 9, 1997

i'm in members of the american federation of teachers throw their support behind democrat jim mcgreevey to that is a new poll shows him trailing governor whitman by double digits viruses are disrupted from a distance what should uproot their first story coming up we'll take you inside what would be a model school for the future and how much does the gender of your child classmates have to do with learning one principal wants to find out if those stories and more on indian news this tuesday september nineteen sixty eight

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polls showing him twelve points behind governor weapons not to a point says in last week's survey gubernatorial candidate jim mcgreevey came to the state house today to get a teacher's endorsement mcgreevey took the occasion to blast whitman's school policies but was forced by reporters into a lengthy give and take in which he pledged to increase school spending and eventually explain how he'd pay for michael allen reports the american federation of teachers and the worst jim mcgreevey today state's main teachers union the ncaa staying neutral in this governor's race for the ft which is actually an amalgam of teacher's college professors and nurses and claimed twenty six thousand members says mcgreevey would be better on education and health care and governor with a her prescription for education includes vouchers and includes school takeovers that includes a reliance on property taxes for school funding mcgreevy then blasted whitman says she's earned an afghan education center school funding plan was so weak the courts found unconstitutional

and what'd core curriculum standards he said are among the weakest in the nation and the democrats cited studies that allegedly confirm that in addition the thomas b fordham foundation a conservative think tank performed a review of twenty eight states and great new jersey's standards the worst in the nation ft includes the newer teachers union have roundly opposed the nineteen eighty five state takeover of the newark schools and so as mcgreevey he repeated that stand today and said if he wins election his first day in office will be the last day for state secret beverly hall the takeover has felt mean the takeover has been unduly this is the principled position the takeover as well jersey city in the city of york schools standardized test scores have dropped by in jersey city that would then campaign brought out senator jack you and a

champion of the state takeover i think it's unconscionable that you think that the state paco should be ended and that he get rid of the whole i think the job has been done up a tremendous amount of heat only doing it as a quid pro quo no to get endorsements that political election and to me that is unconscionable reveal reporters also got into a lot less discussion about taxes reduce it proportionally restore all the state's school at whitman had shifted on to local property taxpayers reporters asked to report an income tax fighter he dodged in after half an hour of questioning really finally explained the money could come from savings in medicaid by pushing home health care from savings in charity care by limiting emergency room visits and by the natural growth every year in revenues meanwhile on another front the man who would be the third candidate in the race libertarian maurice apron got put on hold by the election law enforcement commission they ruled he's raised enough money to qualify for public matching funds but has not

proved he has a bona fide plan to spend it and they kick his case and to administrative law court it seems to me that the un democracy should be alive and well an interview to fortune in drug proceeds alive while the teachers union now he lacked the election law enforcement commission talked about trying to resolve sabre and status by the end of next week if he certified he gets into the televised debates meanwhile a new poll came out today as we told you the star ledger illegal it showed with than with forty seven percent support agree with thirty five percent and eighty percent undecided republicans are breathing easier now can after last week's asbury park press poll which had the race essentially a dead heat a little less than two months to go is michael thank you eleven years catholic schools in camden county were open today despite a strike by more than two hundred lay teachers at issue salary and health benefits can say john reports teachers or schools and the guy and the diocese were not in their

classrooms on this first day of school instead they were manning the picket lines some forty seven hundred students were being taught by administrator has increased the diocese of candid and the union are far apart over the issue of salary teachers' salaries here started talking three thousand dollars in reporting thousand dollars or a new insulin our teachers make about thirty two thousand dollars some schools in our area our starting at thirty thousand so it's a big get any quality bonds that there are some jersey catholic school teachers organization represents intimate event only partly teachers and teachers are seeking a six and three quarter percent increase in each of the next three years that isis is offering three and a quarter of their offer is in effect one percent over our current scale they're characterizing as three cars three quarter percent that actually only one percent of the current scale the salary increase the compounds to ten point six percent over the three years the contract medical benefit package that has a very good one

and does not include a co payment a premium for more employees we think it's a fair responsible offer as usual as with any strike it's the students were part of the metal and soul or sometimes it's upsetting my parents had stolen now the teachers need to be happy so basically a typical working as quickly as possible and i was all ready to start with the new year and i'm a beguiling now after sit home and we integrated graduate have on emissions for this year talks between the union and the diocese were caught last thursday in this afternoon the union sent the diocese a telegram saying they are prepared to meet and negotiate terms again in st john indiana dunes and seek and as kent reported salaries for high school teachers in the candid isis top out at about thirty thousand dollars annually how does that compare with some nearby public school districts according to the state education department the average salary for a high school teacher in new jersey is just over fifty thousand dollars a year in camden

county at cherry hill east teachers earn on average more than sixty one thousand dollars a year and that hadn't failed high the figure is about forty two thousand dollars annually elsewhere there are a number of new schools opening across the state this year in most of them and the emphasis is on technology what kind of things will students find in these new state of the art facilities which young toured a new high school in the west windsor planes barrow school district today he tells us technology is changing how teachers teach and how students learn nearly every or west windsor please her high school was named one of the best in the state with its expansive calls corporate headquarters and opened designed it said to be an environment that helps kids learn as you know with a bulging population the district opened a second high school this year a new forty three million dollar facility with lots of new tools principal warm a sourness is talking about the industrial arts your graphic design snow

longer stop patrolling tables the war continues on new cat computers to see whether designs will work swensen's an industry arm it's good because it basically it's its twenty first century drafted there are computers not only in every classroom but also on every teacher's desk instructors access information from the internet and can instantly show to students on monitors yes it's hard there are also several computer labs and eight hundred seat theater like auditorium biology labs the latest work stations and visit facilities that seems semi professional by most accounts the school has the latest and greatest of what a high school in the nineties has to offer but district officials are quick to point out a good school offers more than just a new computers and a pretty building school officials of business school helps the district to

maintain its strong reputation they're looking for the district's new millstone campus to be a model for schools nationwide are rich in nj and news plans were former radio listeners will present a serious alternative medicine into mainstream if you have a comment called indian music one hundred years we want for our email address indian news a deal will dot com fb there's an experiment going on in the secaucus middle

school that's a tempting to emphasize the strengths of male and female students in tonight's education agenda trish to guess press reports educators say their approach there is a simple one take one for adolescents to heart's hormones and mix thoroughly inside a middle school classroom what you get according to much current research is girls who begin to feel shy and class employees who are distracted but then along comes principal patrick imported ago tim course interesting study that the girls perform better in the us in the six classic voice and i stopped to watch a little bit and after a few months i sent a research lab for in private you know brought his idea to faculty and parents about having a few classes with only boys and if you would only girls today it's called gender specific it was decided that math and social studies would be gender specific the first day you know young men what mathematics class actually first territory to the math teacher's a female said what is nothing to look at here it is just the second full day of school that already students and teachers

alike seemed to have a good feel for the experiment is here in of all boys or girls an all boys and it makes it like easy erin you feel more comfortable but if you're together that if you feel like if you say is to the quest scenario athens can rewrite verses a less distractions girls but as something is done you know that as an ivory tower and i knew yet jane rosen teaches social studies as the ship is a tech and girls tend to pull back some reason are no others to be aware of the opposite sex are more social consciousness they seem to pull back when the next crisis they don't seem to volunteer or project or take a chance as much as they do now when there were with their own gender do you feel girls are really stifled some times when their mix with poison the declines of the girls say they feel a little bit stifled or embarrassed to answer in class duke boys

ever feel the same way from a girl you know because a lot of boys eight there was i think as in a nerd as i get closer and that air airfreight safe with us allow individuals might want to catch the eye of another as a group they stick together they girls used to get yelled at a lot because they were always talking to because of abortion but there haven't been any legal challenges here as there are concerning all male are all female schools and the principal says if the experiment works it could be expanded to a few other classes what do you think you're getting from a class where they're all boys that you may not have gotten where the glass was next time i think i'll be getting better grades and i think as a much crisper gas percent and use secaucus a former radio talk show host who admitted swindling listeners is about to get out of prison sunny block is suffering from inoperable lung cancer according to medical reports filed by blocks attorneys in federal court in new york the sixty one year old has three to

twelve months to live a onetime broadcaster is said to have a twenty five percent chance the chemotherapy will help extend those prospects block admitted he was a paid pitch man for worthless ventures he touted as good investments during his broadcasts former sports authority chairman michael francis has hired a former federal crime fighter to represent him frances a onetime whitman campaign fundraiser has asked former us attorney michael chertoff to defend him against charges of influence peddling and concealing mob ties in march in france has pleaded not guilty to allegations he used his office to get a three quarters of a million dollar contract for his private business and hit his association with alleged organized crime figures chertoff served as us attorney in new jersey from nineteen ninety to ninety four and recently served as majority counsel to the senate white water committee in tonight's health watch fifteen million baby boomers will pass through man a pause over the next decade many will have severe sentence estrogen is the standard treatment but health and medical correspondent

sarah lee kessler reports that many women are turning to herbal remedies as we see in her continuing series on alternative medicine in the mainstream because of my family history of cancer the reason carolyn gets only gives for turning to the black coal ash plants for men applause relief she says her hot flashes are now history i don't have the mood swings anymore joe and mohan i was taking black oh harsh to do montclair gynecologist herbert goldfarb prescribed it like koch is really a play a politician which have taken in a standardized form says a new natural medicine study alleviates menopause symptoms for mosul also decreases the euro the side effects of the locals are these herbal remedies including black coal ash better than estrogen replacement therapy

didn't work better deal will leave the gold standard in reducing symptoms is estrogen pastor jen also lowers a woman's risk of heart attack but dr goldfarb who's written several books on women's health issues points out if women and i think this is really placed and just to treat the hot flush of admirers will give them an alternative method and reduce their fears of the questions here is is manic on his own concoction produced by their field vitamin company what this really is is it is a whole spectrum of chinese herbs which would include licorice root include blood cause home of the war can the herbal remedies for medical centers provide enough heart protection for women now in of itself but if you have a woman so very careful in terms of having thirty seven and the total program a bloody tear this would be sufficient but dr goldfarb warrants a black hole has based remedies do not offer protection against the bone

density laws that often accompanies nana pause for that he says you'll be plenty of exercise take calcium supplements and prescription medications such as balsam x fairly kessler and jan is montclair still to come tonight and nj and he's a look at the day's business happens gamble so he's putting out profits in spinning off some of its less profitable details coming up next is being tested as they fly off tonight a

counterfeiting and with business news for campus at campbell soup was feeling that is they say that yesterday the company reported record sales and earnings for the fourth quarter in its core business including condensed soups and sauces sales grew by ten percent of earnings were up fifteen percent overall revenues for the year were up four percent to just under a billion dollar shares of cable stock traded higher today following the news the company's stock ended the day up one in five sixties meantime can also announced today its spinning off seven of its less profitable units including two well known brands classic pickles and swanson frozen foods classic and swanson account for revenue of nearly one and a half billion dollars for the company says it wants to focus on its most profitable business soups and sauces cables wallace the spinoff will give both brands growth opportunity under their own management team camels expects to complete the action by the end of february fortune magazine has released its list of the top one hundred fastest growing companies nationwide and some garden state businesses have met the challenge hackensack face medical researchers came in a number fifty

five the health care company is considered the most profitable x rays mri and ultrasound operator in the industry checkpoint systems of thoroughfare gloucester county ranks number fifty on the list checkpoint make checkpoint makes antitheft tyson closed circuit tv system's becoming a number sixty nine madison based retain international the company distributed lawn sprinkler systems an outdoor lighting and felt and decorations ninety five hundred companies were analyzed willis interest have to have a sales growth of the least thirty percent to qualify on wall street today stocks finished higher with the nasdaq extending its reach into record territory small cap stocks again el pais the blue chips again at borrowers learnings a computer giant ibm want to beat expectations is either close the dow jones industrial average finished up sixteen three quarters of the seventy eight fifty one level the hammers because it was up three quarters of nasdaq hit another high closing up nearly eleven the s a p five hundred up five hundred was up nearly two and a half and the thirty year treasury was down five

thirty seconds to close six point six two percent and finally forced intercourse they got a peek at what's in bloom this year hundreds of varieties of flowers from all over the world were on display at the world market expo national and international were still a chance a market there for products for a supply vendors were also there to showcase faces and other products a complement any beautiful day we learn what the other growers have to offer us as a retailer and what we may find out what's new in the product line this year and what we may buy from them on an ongoing basis they expose what about the doorbell a wholesale florist in catalogs and a place to just shop i like those peach colored rose's apology speaking portuguese the

players both jerry is saddening shocking day and they get into the whole thing it did two years ago to the baseball hall of famer and a nod to richie ashburn is that he passed away this morning after suffering a heart attack this just hours after astronauts to get between the phillies and that's a new york he had been a phillies announcer for the last thirty five years team officials and fans talk about the loss of a legend today he called for help and by the time they got there was too late and we don't know the specific hour week was first six o'clock in the morning in the cello notified ready for answers or comic secretaries are first person to know about it and there was just such a shock to everybody

could see what the game last night on the line nice but no richie would sit with the team last wednesday through the rough times and the good and the big return are few and far between york in the sixties and then you know i love you remember that it is a terrific player i remember him as somebody who got the short end of the stick because there were great center fielders of your great player and i'm disappointed that will or guide as for and played for the phillies from it for you to nineteen fifty nine he was a two time national league batting champ he finished playing his career his playing career with the cubs and the mets and was finally elected to the whole thing in nineteen ninety five aspirin was seventy at giant stadium today a major part of the construction for the news which was topped off well as officials which are

were joined by representatives of one of the jets and the giants to celebrate the topping off of steel structure the super structures are super sweet as they're called due for completion in nineteen eighty eight edition includes six super sweet fourteen terror sweet and twenty six taylor swift it also includes in the press box cost with a new addition of more than forty billion dollars a spectacular addition to her thank you jerry overcast skies across most of new jersey today that the rain managed to stay away which was welcome news for these workers as they washed the windows at the houston justice complex here in trenton this afternoon the crowds kept the ozone levels in the green for most of the state today clausen possible showers should mean code green conditions again tomorrow and taking a look at the forecast for the northern part of the state tonight it will be cloudy with lowe's in the sixties overnight tomorrow cloudy chance of rain highs in the low seventies in the southern part of the state tonight cloudy and lows in the mid sixties and tamara wayne likely in south jersey eyes they're about seventy five that's

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