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...bill does not provide any funding for publicity about the grant, but council members said that they will use the uc-announce e-mail list...
...this one point George W. Bush and Al Gore would agree: our schools need more Marilyn Whirrys. For 35 years, Whirry has inspired high school students to think deeply about great literature and to use its devices in their writing. She is the kind of teacher that students come back to visit decades later in her classroom in Manhattan Beach, Calif. Last May a national educators' group named her its Teacher of the Year. And with the nation's public schools planning to hire 2.5 million new teachers over the next decade, Whirry is excited that each presidential candidate...
...Bush would expand funding from $2.4 million to $30 million for the Troops to Teachers program, which places veterans who want to teach in public schools. The program makes use of people like Arthur Moore, who retired in 1994 after 21 years in the Army and knew he wanted to teach. "There are a lot of people who would make excellent teachers but are discouraged by the bureaucracy of the certification process," says Moore, 45, who began teaching fourth grade in Baltimore and now tests students for special education. "Troops to Teachers is an excellent way to tap their potential...
...Vouchers - Michigan and California voters will decide whether to use public money to allow students to attend private school. In the largest such effort to date, all of California's school-age children would eventually be eligible for the program. Michigan would require teacher testing for schools redeeming vouchers...
...into the principal of its education trust fund to supplement funds the income the fund generates. - A Colorado initiative seeks to increase per student spending on education by inflation plus one percent for the next ten years and at the rate of inflation thereafter. The state would also use at least $50 million in budget surpluses for the next five years to create math and science programs at public schools. - South Carolinia, Virginia, Alabama, Arkansas and Colorado seek to generate or distribute gaming and lottery profits to benefit local school districts - Idaho could be more flexible with money generated...