Word: powers
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...Power, I learn, has its price. If I forget to have my Sims use the toilet, they'll relieve themselves on the floor, leaving unsightly puddles. If they don't learn to cook, the stove will catch fire. Forget to buy a burglar alarm, and you may wake up without a couch--or a house...
...reduction in their authority. Ten years into the movement toward academic standards, which most schools chiefs say they support, they are getting their own report cards based on how well their students perform on state and national exams. At the same time, many find they lack the power necessary to raise scores...
...most powerful star in many city school districts these days is not the superintendent but the mayor. Since 1991, mayors have taken over districts in Boston, Chicago, Cleveland and Detroit, and now make school-board and superintendent appointments. In the best cases, like Chicago, where the mayor and superintendent present a unified front, the power-sharing arrangement has boosted school performance. Chicago Mayor Richard Daley in 1995 appointed Paul Vallas, a city budget director, to serve as CEO of Chicago schools. Under their leadership, the percentage of elementary school students reading at or above the national average has risen from...
When the first installment of Don Barlett and Jim Steele's examination of corporate welfare appeared in November 1998, TIME was proud to present investigative journalism at its finest--reporting that is as much explanation as it is sensation and that exposes what those in power probably would prefer ordinary folks not see. The series demonstrated why the Washington Journalism Review called Barlett and Steele "almost certainly the best team in the history of investigative reporting." Their four-part "Corporate Welfare" series earned the pair eight major journalism prizes, including the 1999 National Magazine Award for Public Interest. And last...
DIED. DON BUDGE, 84, tennis player who in 1938 became the first to win all four Grand Slam events in a single year, a feat matched by only four players since; in Scranton, Pa. One of the sport's greatest figures, the tall, redheaded Budge pioneered the power game that prevails today, and is considered the first to have used the backhand as an attack stroke...