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...bias suit against CPS that began in 1974. Eager to end the costly suit, the school board last fall acceded to the plaintiffs' demand for racial data to be collected on teachers as part of a broad new plan to hold them more accountable for students' behavior. The settlement warned that "staff members who are deficient in student-behavior management will not be retained in their positions if they fail to improve...
...national teachers' union warns that the proposed settlement will lead to discipline quotas. "It will have a chilling effect," predicts Albert Shanker, president of the American Federation of Teachers. "Basically, teachers will throw in the towel and say, 'Why should I get into trouble?' " He compares the proposal to requiring police to make racially balanced arrests. Kathy Nemann, a seventh-grade history teacher at Crest Hills Middle School in north Cincinnati, agrees. "Teachers will simply stop referring students for discipline," she says. "They'll handle the problem in the classroom"-at the expense of all students. Donald Mooney Jr., attorney...
...court decision on the proposed settlement is expected within weeks. Will the ruling finally put an end two decades of acrimonious legal wrangling? Perhaps some of it -- but not all. If the settlement is approved, the teachers' union has threatened...
...Washington Bosnian and Croatian leaders signed two documents to establish a Bosnian federation and link it to Croatia. Real peace in Bosnia, said Secretary of State Warren Christopher, is "a ways down the road," but he hoped these pacts would "provide the basis for a larger political settlement, which must also include the Bosnian Serbs...
...conflict in Northern Ireland were about to begin. Major players in the Roman Catholic-vs.- Protestant struggle had been talking peace since last December, when British Prime Minister John Major and his Irish counterpart Albert Reynolds issued their Downing Street Declaration affirming that both countries would abide by any settlement democratically agreed upon by the people of Ireland, north and south...