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State education officials contend that MCAS is essential to ensuring that school districts are held accountable under the Education Reform Act of 1993, which doubled state funding of public schools...
Along with MCAS, the Education Reform Act created standardized curriculum guidelines. Now, school districts are scrambling to update their curriculum...
...problem with repealing the estate tax is that such an act would make the overall system more unfair. If we don't need the $24.6 billion that the estate tax generates, there are better places to cut taxes--we could, for instance, drastically reduce taxes on the poor. And if we do need the revenue, then repealing the estate tax is unfair to the 98.6 percent of Americans who will have to pay the $24.6 billion that the top 1.4 percent save...
...Even if you didn't know that John started buying pictures after he stopped drinking, you might figure it out from the pictures. They suggest the mental climate of a man cleaning up his act. The old John was a circus clown shot out of his own cannon, so you'd expect his collection to have more of the orangutan behavior and chili-pepper colors you get from, say, David La Chappelle, the celebrity photographer who pinwheeled around John three years ago. You do find some of that in the Polaroid self-portraits Lucas Samaras made in the 1970s, when...
...wimple. But to actually know what God's call sounds like; how feminist nuns manage in the still patriarchal post-Vatican II church; or how liberating it is for some brides of Christ to be untrammeled by children, sex and romantic love - none of that is covered in "Sister Act...