Word: reforms
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Bush and his strategists also believe education gives them an opportunity to define Gore as a special-interest coddler, a roadblock to reform. On Friday, Bush's campaign unveiled the first TV commercial of the Bush-Gore contest, an education-reform spot running in Illinois and reaching parts of Iowa, Kentucky and Missouri. "Gore and Clinton had eight years, but they've failed," the ad says. "As President, George W. Bush will challenge the status quo with a crusade to improve education." In response, Gore put up an ad pointing out that reading scores "are going up across America," styling...
Bush's charges may sound like workaday campaign rhetoric, but he has a point. He has a plan for comprehensive school reform--flexibility and local control coupled with high standards and consequences for failure--and Gore, so far, does not. Gore gets part of the equation right--he backs statewide standards and testing--but comes up short on the issue of holding schools accountable for student performance. During his time as Vice President, the Education Department has done little to reward schools that flourish and nothing to sanction schools that persistently fail. And Gore remains fuzzy on the subject today...
Five years in the making, the first phase of Harvard's Project ADAPT, that relating to financial systems, was implemented July 1, dramatically changing the way Harvard processes financial information. When the $112 million Project ADAPT began, reform of the information system was sorely needed, and although any project of this size is bound to bring minor bugs and annoyances, most of those affected by the change were willing to go along...
...even if Buchanan can gain a national forum, Campbell dismisses his chances as the Reform Party candidate...
...Post interview, in which Bush said Gore has a "major credibility problem," shows that the Texas governor is wasting no time squeezing the veep's most glaring pressure point - Clinton fatigue. And while Bush opposes most forms of campaign finance reform, he's also quickly trying to carry the McCain reformist mantle by relentlessly lashing out against Gore's alleged and acknowledged fund-raising improprieties. While Gore isn't tipping his hand on the salvos he's got in store for Bush, it's only a question of time until this runoff reaches its full promise as a spectacle that...