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The injunction was denied, but the charges of racism were not a complete surprise at the Department of Agriculture--even to Shirley Watkins, the USDA Under Secretary of Food and Nutrition, who happens to be black. In recent years, food activists with a reasonable point to make--whether it be...
If that sounds like a tough position to fill, consider that the future of 14% of America's public school kids depends on the person who gets the job. The post is big-city school superintendent, and it's open in 13 major cities across the U.S. as a crisis...
The most powerful star in many city school districts these days is not the superintendent but the mayor. Since 1991, mayors have taken over districts in Boston, Chicago, Cleveland and Detroit, and now make school-board and superintendent appointments. In the best cases, like Chicago, where the mayor and superintendent...
These tiny glimpses are tantalizing. But how do we get a deeper look, induce any of these Clockwork Oranges to come unsprung enough to show a little of their own lives before we entrust one of them with the life of a nation? Bradley boasts he's comfortable in his...
Car crashes are the leading cause of injury and death among U.S. children, and though most of us now think of car seats as standard baby equipment, about half of all children under the age of four who died in vehicle accidents last year were not restrained. The National Highway...