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...public schools in the town should be comparably funded, equipped and staffed. Thus when a father offered to donate $40,000 to cover the cost of an additional kindergarten teacher, the school turned him down, prompting the father to send his child to a private school. And when another parent offered to donate $100,000 worth of computer equipment to the Heath School, he had to agree to divvy up the equipment equally among the town's K-8 facilities. "Public schools are for everybody," argues Gerald Kaplan, principal of Brookline's Devotion elementary school. "It is my very strong...
...property-tax caps and budget cutbacks, no child is entitled to much; these days state and local funding for education is stretched just to cover the basics. Class sizes are inching up; music, sports and other activities are being eliminated. In communities rich enough for parents to pitch in and pay for some of these "extras,'' there is an understandable impulse to do so. In the Chicago suburb of Kenilworth, for example, the Parent Volunteer Association of the Joseph Sears primary school raised $92,000 last year to build a new playground. Similarly, a parent booster club at the Kenter...
...since they do have the money, say opponents of parent donations, there's a greater likelihood that in the long run more and more schools will be left with scraps. "Fund raising doesn't respond to the real needs of schools. That's nickels and dimes," says Robert Weintraub, principal of Brookline High School. "Brookline has lost $4 million in state funds [in recent years]. It creates a cycle of abandonment...
Murdoch wrote directly to FCC chairman Reed Hundt, declaring his "personal anguish" at the whole affair. But he backed his tears with bullets. That same day his Washington attorney, William Reyner Jr., also wrote to Hundt, at one point accusing NBC parent General Electric of having engaged "in a pattern of illegal activity, including criminal fraud, antitrust and anticompetitive conduct." He listed a series of examples, including GE's 1992 guilty plea on four counts of fraud associated with a sale of aircraft engines to Israel. These sins, Reyner continued, called into question "NBC's basic qualifications to continue...
...talent as coin to buy his freedom while keeping Luce's patronage. As White wrote of himself in the third person much later: "He believed he could have it both ways-that he could say what he wanted to say, and yet enjoy the comfort and benefits of the parent organization that disagreed...