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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...major debate between the two candidates has focused on teacher accountability and the merit of high-stakes testing to measure school success. Gore, unwilling to pressure the teachers' unions from which he derives a significant chunk of his support, would encourage schools to use voluntary testing to measure progress and merely requires that failing schools be identified. Yet without mandated testing to measure failing schools, a missing link exists between identifying these schools and fixing them...
...testing is targeted at the schools that need it most, those given Title I federal funds primarily aimed at students from low-income families. If a school is low-performing, it will have three years to show improvement before having the school's resources turned over for parents to use. Bush's education plan increases the demands placed upon teacher success, thus offering an innovative approach to the school-reform issue...
...voucher-related programs. Though Gore refuses to consider the solution, Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (D-Conn.) was a staunch supporter of vouchers until he joined the ticket. Bush, however, supports giving $1,500 per child in federal funding to the parents of students at consistently low-performing schools for use towards their children's education. As this money could go to a public school, tutoring or a private school, charges that the plan would take away money from public schools are essentially unfounded. Bush also saves money by allowing public-private partnerships in school construction, giving states the ability...
...police brutality, has not issued any kind of statement regarding this conflict. The council, indeed the school, is quick to pass resolutions of sentiment condemning contentious issues like homophobia. And it is quick to sponsor panels on difficult questions like diversity. But the moment the campus actually could use a body to provide a forum for free discussion, the council doesn't say a word...
...vital to our campus's mission. We can't just discuss the safe issues. We must be willing to confront the difficult ones. Say that Ariel Sharon's visit to the Temple Mount is directly responsible for the recent outbreak of violence. Say that Israel has the right to use all powers at its disposal to defend its soldiers and citizens against mob violence. Say you support a Palestinian state. Say you oppose any kind of Palestinian sovereignty in Jerusalem. But don't say that you don't want to talk about it. Those whose lives are in the balance...