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Speaking before an audience of approximately 100, in a speech titled "Restructuring Government for Better Education," Governor John Engler said semi-public charter schools put the choice of children's education in their parents' hands...
...Talk by John Engler. Engler is thegovernor of Michigan. Gutman Conference Center,Graduate School of Education...
...governors who helped craft aHouse-passed welfare reform billare now trying to make sure the Senate version is even more sweeping. While the House version preserved the $27 billion food stamp program as thefederal government's ultimate safety net, a new proposal by governors William Weld of Massachusetts, John Engler of Michigan and Tommy Thompson of Wisconsin would dismantle the the program and replace it with block grants to the states...
...until recently no one outside the states seemed to be paying attention. The Democratic-run Congress happily ignored the likes of Republicans Weld, Engler and Thompson, played down the lawsuits and appeared not to hear rhetoric like that of Arizona Governor Fife Symington, a Republican who recently speechified, ``Let the little potentates of the Potomac be warned; we are growing weary of your ways, so kindly get out of ours...
...changed everything,'' says Massachusetts' Weld happily. It was not just that the midterm election's big winners were the Republicans, who traditionally favor state government over federal. It was that, as Leavitt says, ``The Governors are the embodiment of that level of government the people said they wanted.'' Weld, Engler and Thompson were perfect Gingrichian heroes--practical, agile, local. By the time the returns were in, any Washington pol who didn't want to hand them part of his power could be accused of being out of touch. All that remained to be seen was whether it was for real...