Word: localitis
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...want to glimpse true parental devotion, head to the local mall in Vicksburg, Miss. Just past the JCPenney and the KB Toys, right across from the Corn Dog 7, you'll find a storefront occupied by Redwood Elementary School. A mannequin in the school's red-and-blue uniform presides over a spread of student-made dioramas and papier-mache, painstakingly displayed by Redwood parents in an all-day decorating marathon. On a recent Saturday, the school's choir serenaded shoppers while a troop of parent volunteers was on hand with brochures extolling the virtues of a Redwood education...
...state-of-the-art outdoor classroom. To reach the most disengaged parents, the district mounted a full-scale media blitz, postering walls from the city health department to K Mart and taking flyers door to door. The individual schools sent home mass mailings and bought competing ads in the local paper. The district even promised free rides to parents who had trouble getting to their children's schools...
...says. But before ruling out the Osceola system for his five-year-old son Jackson, Brothers saw one last opportunity: to open a publicly financed charter school. Governor Mike Huckabee had signed legislation in early 1999 that would allow for as many as 12 charter schools, independent of local districts, to be established in the state. So Brothers, along with the Chamber of Commerce director, Mayor Dickie Kennemore and others settled on a plan for what they called the Arkansas Charter School. It would serve 72 kindergartners and first-graders by the fall, and its goals would be academic rigor...
...Route 50, which resulted in a similar special issue. One reason for these trips is that those of us in the national media spend a lot of time listening to issues being debated at distant summits and congressional hearings but not enough time listening to discussions that occur at local PTA and school board meetings, at Rotary and Kiwanis clubs, at coffee shops where store owners congregate on slow Tuesday mornings...
...trip also allowed us to hear, from a very local perspective, some of the great issues we face as a nation. We listened to blacks and whites talk about community policing in racially divided Cape Girardeau, Mo.; parents debate a charter school in Osceola, Ark.; Ron Stodghill's father talk about the possibility of building a boarding school in the poor St. Louis, Mo., district where he is a superintendent; and the warden of the prison in Angola, La., describe his mixed feelings about the death penalty and life without parole...