Word: aid
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...Harvard women's soccer team is hoping to improve on its third place finish of a year ago with the aid of a few freshmen prospects of their own to complement a solid, experienced squad...
...officials say they do not think the law will negatively affect their business. "Because two-thirds of our students are on financial aid, most of the students will wait while we process their forms," says Gina L. Beradi...
...discussions highlighted a basic philosophical difference between the two parties. Democrats put much of their faith in increasing federal aid to education, which currently runs around $20 billion a year. The extra money, and some of the present aid, would be used to prompt changes in the system. Samples: Senator Joseph Biden would lengthen the academic year by 30 days; Congressman Richard Gephardt would reward school districts that show the most improvement; Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis would intensify federal efforts to help recruit and train teachers. When Gephardt asserted that educational reform "is going to take money -- I think...
...these plans face a fundamental obstacle: state and local governments, not Washington, control what is taught in schools and how well. A President can exhort, encourage, prod and deplore, and to some extent use federal aid or its denial to effect changes. But a President Biden could not order school districts to lengthen the class year, nor could a President du Pont force them to adopt his "universal choice" plan...
Some of the ideas that the candidates have proposed are open to serious objection. Gephardt's plan to retarget federal aid toward the fastest- improving schools risks helping good districts to become better while leaving the poor ones to deteriorate even further. Du Pont's "universal choice" goes too far even for some Republicans who accept the principle of inducing competition among schools. Kemp charged that du Pont's plan might cost the Federal Government as much as $25 billion; he promotes choice among public schools only within a given district. But whatever the merits or demerits of the specific...