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...extinct -- the Gulf War perhaps a last set piece of tank warfare -- parvenu nations tinker in their basements with homemade nukes. Even more ominous is the global inundation of handy conventional weapons, a planetary democratization of firepower trickling down to Third World villages and the hip pockets of American schoolchildren...
...most sweeping educational reform effort of the 1990s, a referendum which attempted to empower schoolchildren's parents at the expense of education bureaucrats, has just been defeated in our nation's most populous state. California voters rejected Proposition 174 and its plan to distribute $2,600 in education funds to the parents of schoolchildren throughout the state. Some will herald this "victory" of the teachers' union and celebrtate the supposed death of school choice as a state or national issue. But they will witness the speediest resurrection in 2,000 years...
...other information" which participating schools would have to report would include the average student-to-teacher ratio, the graduation rate and the basic curriculum offered. The state would then provide the schoolchildren's parents with a compendium of data on every school statewide which participates in the voucher program. Schools refusing to disclose this information would forfeit voucher eligibility...
...makes good sense, and he has been an effective advocate for the city's growing minority communities. As ex officio chair of the school committee, Reeves has shown a true dedication to the city's educational system, and has proposed major reforms to bring its benefits to less wealthy schoolchildren. While Reeves has his drawbacks (he lives in a rent-controlled housing unit, despite his salaries as a lawyer and mayor; he fails to foster consensus among the councillors) we think that overall he is a valuable influence on the council...
...BGLSA's idea that the best way of demonstrating the happiness of those engaged in habitual same-sex activity is to interview them all does little to prove the happiness of practicing homosexuals. In polls, the vast majority of American schoolchildren report themselves to be "very good" at math, but that doesn't mean that they can add or subtract. Mansfield does not mean that because homosexual acts are shameful, all homosexuals feel ashamed (quite the opposite); he does not mean that because homosexual love is "imperfect and stunted and frustrated," all homosexuals feel unhappy...