Word: program
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...already has a small program in international education, so just as at SPH, the inclusion of the former HIID programs will not move the school into new areas but only serve as an extension of current programs...
While they have not yet inaugurated a program of civil disobedience, including sit-ins and arrests, PSLM members have increased the aggressiveness of their tactics in the past month...
...preparing to make a rare exception to the principle of science-for-profit: the U.S. and British governments will make the results of the Human Genome Project available to the public and, more important, to the scientific community. A statement to be released Tuesday urges all researchers in the program to share their data in the interests of promoting humanity's ability to fight disease. With the latest $448 million the White House has asked Congress to approve for the project, the U.S. government investment in the research since 1993 will rise to $3 billion. Government funding for research motivated...
...issue of school vouchers - the most contentious in American public education over the past decade - is poised to come to a head. On Tuesday a Florida circuit court judge ruled that the state's nascent voucher program violates the state constitution. But this isn't the last we've heard of the Florida voucher program, the most ambitious in the nation. The arguments against the program - that it violates the separation of church and state and leaves the neediest kids stranded in underperforming schools - are being hotly debated across the country, and voucher proponents are already lining up national experts...
...underperforming schools. In this system, if a school averages subpar grades on state standardized tests in consecutive years, parents are offered $3,389 vouchers that can be used for private, parochial or other public schools. Despite signs that it's been somewhat successful (a mostly flattering story about the program ran on the front page of the New York Times on Tuesday), Judge Ralph Smith Jr. ruled in favor of voucher opponents, reasoning that it illegally funnels public funding into private schools. Both sides of the lawsuit have already speculated that the appeals will go the Florida Supreme Court...