Word: children
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Priceline founder Jay Walker says his biggest customers are seniors, college students and parents with small children, who have the impetus to navigate the bidding process for the average $12.75 it will save them on a basket of 10 items. "For some families," he says, "that's the difference between putting meat on the table once a week and three times a week...
...Tuesday, a U.S. district judge in Cincinnati dove right into the thorn bush, declaring Cleveland's four-year-old voucher system illegal. Although the program will continue until a higher court makes its ruling, Judge Solomon Oliver Jr. ruled that the voucher program - which allows families to send their children to private schools using public funds - is unconstitutional. Because most of the subsidized students attend religious schools, Oliver said, the vouchers provide taxpayer money for religious instruction. Ohio's attorney general vows to appeal the ruling, and many analysts expect the case to go to the U.S. Supreme Court. "This...
Proponents of funding students at religious schools argue that they are exercising their freedom of choice, and are merely seeking the best education for their children. Opponents of the voucher program contend that funneling taxpayer money into parochial schools is tantamount to funding church programs. At this point, it's anyone's ballgame: Although the Supreme Court recently declined to hear a case involving vouchers and religious schools in the Vermont state school system, the Justices are scheduled to rule by next summer on a similar case, and have given no indication of their leanings...
...think many of us are too ready to blame good parents for how their children cope with a violent and coarse society. Even loving, attentive parents can lose children who are temperamentally vulnerable--if they develop a secret life, get caught up in the dark side of the culture and form dangerous peer alliances. And that's scary for any parent to acknowledge...
...devastation that has killed at least 10,000 people, Chavez appears to be delivering on his populist commitment to share the oil-rich country's resources more equitably. And to underscore the point, his wife on Sunday opened the doors of the presidential palace and took in 35 children orphaned by the disaster...