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NY schools battle over gay books
NEW YORK (A!*) — The chief of the nation s
largest school system is locked In a bitter dispute
with some parents over whether first-graders
should be taught to respect gay people
Schools Chancellor Joseph Fernandez suspend
ed a neighborhood school hoard last week for re
fusing to accept the "Children of the Rainbow"
curriculum, which contains a section on how to
teach respect for homosexual parents
The city’s Board of Education dealt him a set
back Wednesday night by voting to reinstate the
nine-member elected board in District 24. a large
ly Roman Catholic section in Queens
However, It affirmed Fernandez's authority to
supersede the board if the two sides cannot come
to terms on an alternative curriculum
Fernandez set u Friday evening deadline for the
school board to meet with him and his staff If the
board doesn't respond, he will appoint three trus
tees to assume all responsibilities for the develop
ment of a multicultural curriculum
What has particularly angered some parents in
the district aro two books on a suggested reading
list for teachers — "Daddy's Roommate" and
"Heather Has Two Mommies
Thousands of letters have been mailed to par
ents warning that the curriculum meant first
graders would lie taught about the "homosexual
lifestyle, including oral and anal sex ”
"I'll be the first one to pull my kids out of the
school" if the curriculum is enforced, said Anna
Sac/, who heads a parent association at Public
School 89
"I wish it wasn't in the school at all," said an
other parent, Hetty LoCtcoro. "If it's going to have
to be. let it be in the junior high school."
It's the latest controversy involving Fernandez,
whoso name has surfaced as a potential education
secretary in President-elect Clinton's administra
tion
In excerpts from his upcoming autobiography,
Fernandez disclosed last week he nearly died of a
heroin overdose as a teen-age dropout in Harlem
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Clinton will consider
Iraq loan investiqation
LITTLE R(X:K, Ark (AP) —
i’residnnt-eloct Clinton said
Thursday ho would consider an
investigation of the Bush ad
ministration's handling of an il
legal loan scheme to Iraq.
Clinton, answuring questions
at a nows conforoncu to an
nounce the appointment of his
lop economic aides, said he
would make his decision after
consulting with his prospective
attorney general
■‘We certainly need to know
more than what wo know
now," Clinton said. "1 want to
know what else 1 should do,"
he added
Attorney Cenoral William
Barr on Wednesday rejuctod
congressional demands for the
appointment of an independent
counsel to examine alloged
wrongdoing in the prosecution
of the $5.5 billion in loans by
an Atlanta bank branch
Democrats, including the
chairmen of the House and
Senate Judiciary and Bunking
Committees, contend the Bush
administration botched the
prosecution of the Atlanta l«ink
manager in order to conceal Its
embarrassing policy of support
ing Iraq up until its Invasion of
Kuwait in 1900.
Barr made his decision after
receiving the report of a special
investigator he named, fudge
Frederick Lacey, who cleared
the Justice Department and the
Atlanta prosecutors of any
wrongdoing.
But Democrats in Congress
called Lacey's report a white
wash, and announced they
would ask the new administra
tion to investigate.
A Clinton attorney general
could docide to start an investi
gation or could ask a three
member court to appoint an in
dependent counsel.
The current law that allows
for the appointment of an inde
pendent counsel to examine al
leged government criminal
wrongdoing expires Dec. 15.
Republicans blocked an effort
to extend the law in the final
session of the 102nd Congress,
but Democrats are confident of
better luck in the new Congress
that convenes next month.
(Minton said he favored the
re-enactment of the indepen
dent counsel law
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