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...often school districts have a justification, and race goes away." Researchers have theorized that anything from lead exposure to passive smoke may drive some students to act out more than others. The National Association of Secondary School Principals has deemed the discipline gap "an issue of socioeconomic status." The interim findings of the Rhode Island task force bolster this view. The group, after considering a student's race and whether he or she qualified for free lunch, concluded that "poverty is the single most pressing factor" associated with the disproportionate suspension of minority students in as many as a third...
...Palestinian reforms as a condition for future peace talks, but legislators within Arafat's Palestinian Authority had already drawn up proposals to replace his Cabinet within 45 days. Arafat's insistence, however, that elections depended on an Israeli withdrawal left Sharon with his own plan on the table: an "interim" Palestinian government, appointed from outside. LIBERIA Rebels Beaten Back Panic seized the capital, Monrovia, as government troops battled rebel fighters within earshot of the city. Soldiers loyal to President Charles Taylor reclaimed his home town of Arthington, 25 km away, and said they killed more than 120 rebels in towns...
...Palestinian Authority was created by the Oslo Accords between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in 1994 as an interim administrative body that would serve as the foundation for a Palestinian state. Oslo envisaged a final-status agreement between the two sides by 1999, at which point the PA would be replaced by a government created on the basis of the constitution of the new Palestinian state. That's why the mandate of the current PA legislature and Chairman Arafat himself, democratically elected in early 1996, expired in 1999. But the absence of a final status agreement has, until...
...Palestinian Authority; after all, it would ultimately limit his personal power. For Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon PA reform is code for getting rid of Arafat - the Israeli leader went so far, this week, as to suggest that the U.S. and its allies oust Arafat and "impose" an "interim government" on the Palestinians. But Sharon is unlikely to have much influence over the remaking...
...they expect much. Says a senior U.S. official close to the talks: "He's got to be willing to say that the [Palestinian] state will come in a reasonable time frame; it has to be viable [that is, territorially contiguous], and even if it's established on an interim basis, it's got to be linked to a final settlement." Whatever his proposal turns out to be, Sharon is not expected to back down on his feelings about Arafat. Israeli officials say Sharon will come armed with new, hard evidence of the Palestinian leader's continuing complicity in terrorism...