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...Guys Who Collect Coins: William Archer Jr. (R., Texas), collection value: $16,326; Steve Largent (R., Okla.), more than $30,000; Philip Crane (R., Ill.), more than $50,000; and Ronald Paul (R., Texas), more than...
...Guys Who Collect Coins: William Archer Jr. (R-Texas), collection value: $16,326; Steve Largent (R- Okla.), more than $30,000; Philip Crane (R-Ill.), more than $50,000; and Ronald Paul (R-Texas), more than...
...Detroit's Archer, who is already facing a recall campaign by critics who claim he is awarding the city's most valuable business contracts to whites, remaking Detroit's schools is a potential land mine. In a city that is 76% black and where a majority of voters are Democrats, even a reluctant alliance with a white Republican Governor and majority-white legislature has made Archer's motives suspect. Some critics consider the takeover a violation of the rights of voters, who elected the school-board members Archer is stripping of their power and their pagers...
...under the school-board system overthrown in Detroit, board members were elected in geographic districts, and no elected official was accountable for getting results citywide. Now that's changed. Archer is the man. And he knows that failing to clean up Detroit's schools would cripple his larger revitalization plan for the city and perhaps his political future overall...
...part, Archer says he wants to put politics aside and learning back into the classroom. "I'm not sure if we're too late or right on time," he says. "But I plan to...do everything humanly possible to ensure that teachers have the textbooks they've requested and anything that needs to be replaced, repainted or repaired inside our schools before teachers and students return in September." These may seem modest initial goals. But perhaps, as in Chicago four years ago, any progress at all will be welcomed by Detroit's students and parents alike...