Word: acceptably
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Cutting Back on Books. Midwestern cities are also finding it harder than ever to get financial support for public schools at the polls. Last November, Cincinnati voters refused to accept a 50% increase in their real estate taxes to cover school operating costs that have risen by more than $2,000,000 a year. Six months ago, Minneapolis voters defeated a proposed $16 million increase in their real estate taxes to cover a boost in the budget. As a result, the board of education was forced to cut back expenditures for new books, educational films, teachers' sabbaticals...
...teacher in a Roman Catholic parochial school was regarded as something of a necessary evil. Thanks to a decline in the number of nun teachers and a rapid growth of Catholic schools, laymen now constitute one-third of the parochial teaching force-and they are no longer content to accept second-class citizenship. In the past six weeks, teacher walkouts have hit three Chicago high schools, while last-minute negotiations narrowly averted similar strikes in New York City and Philadelphia. In the Los Angeles suburb of Mission Hills, 32 male lay teachers of Alemany High School recently negotiated their first...
After nine years of debate, study and revision, the United Presbyterian Church last week approved the "Confession of 1967"-the first new Presbyterian creed in 320 years. By a 4-to-l margin, the 829 delegates to the 179th General Assembly in Portland, Ore., voted to accept the Confession, a 4,500-word document that commits the church, in the name of Christ, to labor for such causes as world peace and the elimination of poverty and injustice, and describes the Bible as simply the "witness without parallel" to God's word rather than his inerrant utterance...
...students like poetry "because it seems to crystallize experience more deeply. One boy left school after reading Hart Crane, and I began to wonder what sort of power I am unleashing to them. They are willing to accept a variety of poetry as long as they get the sense that the poet respects the complexities of the world. They reject oversimplifications...
...finally "reselved" because of the Administration's embarrassment over the final clubs. The AAAAS was urged to strike out the discriminatory clause and, implicitly, substitute one of membership by invitation. Armah would have none of this. He kept telling the undergraduates, especially the American Negroes who were willing to accept the "final club" compromise...