pay as a percentage of state per capita income, and almost at the national average in per-pupilexpenditures as a percentage of income. By 1987, the number of our school districts hadropped to 329, and 85 percent of the districts had increased their property-tax rates, which can be done only by a popular vote, to meet the standards. Student test scores rose steadily across the board. In 1986, the Southern Regional Education Board gave a test to eleventh graders in five southern states. Arkansas was the only state to score above the national average. When the same group was tested five years earlier, in 1981our students scored below the national average. We were on our way.I continued to push for educational improvements for the rest of my time as governor, but theIn the summer of 1983, the governors met in Portland, Maine. Hillary, Chelsea, and I had aresponsible. Although the programwas funded by the federal government, it was administered by the states.re in a bind. Most of them agreed that the rules needed to bechanged and certainly didn’t want to defend them in public, but they wanted to stick with theirnew standards, funding, and accountability measures laid the foundation for all the later progress. Eventually I reconciled with the
oil painting AEA and its leaders, as we worked together year after year to improve our schools and our children’s future. When I look back on my career ipolitics, the 1983 legislative session on education is one of the things I’m proudest of.great time, getting together with my old friend Bob Reich and his family, and going with thother governors to a cookout at Vice President Bush’s house in the beautiful oceanside towof Kennebunkport.
led light Three-year-old Chelsea marched up to the vice president and said she needed to go to the bathroom. He took her by the hand and led her there. Chelsea appreciait, and Hillary and I were impressed by George Bush’s kindness. It wouldn’t be the last time.to do something about it. It had just dramatically tightened the eligibility rules for federal disability benefits. Just as with the black-lung program ten years earlier, there had been abuses of the disability program, but the Reagan cure was worse than the problem. The regulations were so strict they were ridiculous. In Arkansas, a truck driver with a ninth-gradeeducation had lost his arm in an accident. He was denied disability benefits on the theory thhe could get a desk job doing clerical work. Several Democrats in the House, including Arkansas congressman Beryl Anthony, were trying to
oil paintings overturn the rules. Beryl asked me to get the governors to call for their reversal. Thegovernors were interested in the issue, because a lot of our disabled constituents were being denied benefits, and because we were being held partlySince the matter wasn’t on our agenda, I had to get the relevant committee to vote to overturnthe rules by two-thirds, then get 75 percent of the governors present to support the committaction. It was
led street light important enough to the White House that the administration sent two assistsecretaries from the Department of Health and Human Services to work against my efforts. The Republican governors wePresident. The Republican strategy was to kill our proposal in committee. My head count indicated we would win in the committee by a single vote, but only if all our votes showedOne of those votes was Governor George
led interior light Wallace. Ever since he had been confined to a wheelchair by a would-be assassin’s bullet, it took him a couple of hours every morning to ready to face the day. On this morning, George Wallace had to get up two hours earlier than usual to go through his painful preparations. He came to the meeting and cast a loud “aye” vote for our resolution, after telling the committee how many Alabama working people, blac
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