Word: reformã
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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...Despite decades of ostensible “reform?? and ballooning budgets, urban schools, even more than other public schools, remain awash in moral and academic failure. They are perpetuating segregation, intolerance, inequality and religious discrimination, while poor parents plead for the opportunity to send their children elsewhere. Can we really tell them to “just wait” for another round of reforms, hoping the bureaucrats do it right this time? It is easy to say “wait” when one’s parents can afford private school and when the government...
Fowler recalls one government seminar—Eaton Professor of the Science of Government Robert H. Bates’ “Politics and Economics of Policy Reform??—which was discontinued after the prevalence of KSG students in the course slowed down discussion considerably...
...Granny D.”—91-year-old Doris Haddock, famed for walking across the country to demonstrate her support for Campaign Finance Reform??came out for the event, although she had some trouble making the step up onto the podium...
...front of full patriotic regalia and tidy posters created by the event’s organizers, four of Congress’ leading proponents of campaign finance reform??Sen. John S. McCain (R-Ariz.), Sen. Russell Feingold (D-Wis.), Representative Marty Meehan (D-Mass.) and Representative Christopher Shays (R-Conn.)—publicly pleaded for legislators to reform what the four proponents described as a faulty system...
...theory behind “campaign finance reform?? is that the special interests pay the piper and thus call the tune, so we need to muzzle the special interests. Instead, how about holding politicians accountable through the electoral process and leaving the special interests alone...