Word: approached
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...most effective ways of slowing the AIDS epidemic. That kind of program has shown promise in other countries, but in the U.S. such efforts are limited to a few locally funded experiments. The Bush Administration refuses to support any clean-needle program or even research into whether that approach is effective. Only an educational campaign to encourage addicts to sterilize needles with bleach has federal funding. And that $50 million program, a minuscule part of the $2.6 billion annual federal AIDS budget, was nearly cut this year at the behest of conservative Senator Jesse Helms of North Carolina...
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT REVUE (A&E, Fridays, 8 p.m. EDT, with weekend repeats). A weekly magazine with a fresh approach and guests you're unlikely to see anywhere else. Host Eric Burns, low key and ingratiating, presides over a classy potpourri of cultural news and features...
Faced with a projected 1991 deficit of $3 billion when he took office in January, Florio rejected the back-door approach of relying on increased "user fees" and "sin taxes" (on liquor and cigarettes) so popular among his peers. Instead he became the only Governor of this read-my-lips era to embrace the discarded notion of a progressive tax, which hits New Jersey's wealthiest residents hardest by doubling the bite on their income...
Having pushed that approach in Miami, where he was Dade County school superintendent for almost three years, Fernandez is trying to apply it to the nation's largest school system. Whether or not it works in New York, school- based management is gathering momentum across the U.S. School districts in 27 states have experimented with it, with varying degrees of success, over the past five years. Since 1987 the schools in Rochester have been run by a team of teachers, parents and administrators. Beginning last fall, locally elected councils -- composed of six parents, two community residents, two teachers...
...been grouped together in interdisciplinary programs. Juniors take "U.S. Is Us," a daily two-hour course combining history and literature, led by two social studies teachers, two language-arts teachers and one special-education teacher. These classes include some of the brightest youngsters as well as the slowest, an approach Hohmann calls "teamstreaming." Teaching together takes more time, commitment and compromise, but it is rapidly becoming the norm at Fairdale -- a development that pleases ninth-grade teacher Brenda Butler. "I love the changes," she says. "We finally have an opportunity to voice our opinions and make decisions about student learning...