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...Richmond-area gang killings in 1979; by electrocution; in Richmond. Last May Briley masterminded the largest death-row breakout in history when, with his brother James, 28, and four other convicted murderers, he dressed as a guard and drove an official van out of the maximum-security prison in Mecklenburg, Va., and was not captured until 19 days later in Philadelphia...
Charlotte-Mecklenburg, N.C., boasts another intriguing teacher-development program. With the help of his faculty, Superintendent Jay Robinson is now working out a career plan that would identify 26 qualities an instructor should exhibit. Teachers would receive extensive training through a center that already houses a library of curriculum materials and sets up workshops to sharpen skills. Favorable evaluations would lead to pay bonuses as teachers advanced up a three-step career ladder to tenured status. Says Robinson: "Merit-pay plans attempt to identify excellence and reward it. Our plan's emphasis is on creating great teachers through training...
...landmark 1971 case, Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education, the Supreme Court upheld a lower court's authority to mandate school busing where government policy had been shown to create segregation. But in its friend-of-the-court brief, Reagan's Justice Department argued last week that lower courts have interpreted Swann too broadly and should be allowed to take into account the "educational, social and economic costs of busing." These "costs," at least as argued in the Nashville case, include "white flight" from the public school system...
...were drawn out with all the familiar rounds of inventive appeals. Coppola, a former seminary student and policeman, had been convicted of brutally killing a woman during a 1978 robbery. By last spring, 34 judges had heard his various legal arguments, and still he sat on death row at Mecklenburg Correctional Center. Though maintaining his innocence, he dropped his appeals and asked that the execution proceed. "Further incarceration," he said, "can only lead to my being stripped of all personal dignity." His one request: a summer date, to minimize the taunts to his two school-age sons...
...Marjory Mecklenburg. President of the antiabortion American Citizens Concerned for Life, Mecklenburg is the prime candidate to be director of the Office of Adolescent Pregnancy Programs, part of the Department of Health and Human Services. She says that her organization believes contraceptives should not be "the first line of defense" against teen pregnancies. Instead, she insists, young people should be educated to "postpone sexual involvement." Mecklenburg adds, however, that she sees "little to be gained by withholding contraception from sexually active adolescents...