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...reforms came abruptly, grabbing attention like fingernails scratching a chalkboard. As Detroit Mayor Dennis Archer stepped into his new role as czar of the city's public schools last week, he began the dirty work of dismantling one of the nation's most ineffectual public bureaucracies. Armed with a new state law giving him authority over the city's 265 public schools, Archer swiftly demoted the city's elected school-board members to unpaid advisers and stripped them of such perks as corporate credit cards, cell phones, pagers and even office keys. He suspended all new employment contracts...
...former state supreme court justice, Archer is known for long deliberation before he acts. Not much studying was required here: only half of Detroit's high school students graduate, most basic supplies--from textbooks to toilet paper--somehow have trouble making it into schools, and teachers routinely walk out on strike. While Archer has succeeded in reducing crime and luring Big Business since taking over as mayor in 1994, he says the city's decades-long flight of middle-class residents can't be reversed unless the city's schools get better. "Any mayor in the country will tell...
...fight crime and fill potholes around a school, they wield little influence over what happens inside. That responsibility has rested in the hands of superintendents, school boards and unions, whose often fractious interests result in personal fiefdoms and byzantine politics that keep bickering high and student achievement low. But Archer's ascension is the latest in a wave of public school takeovers, from Chicago and Cleveland, Ohio, to Buffalo, N.Y., and New Orleans. Mayors in these and other cities have all gained--or are in the process of gaining--control of public schools and are adopting aggressive reforms through handpicked...
...Ryba 5-10 0-1 11; Gates 1-5 0-02; Kowal 0-1 0-0 0; Kinneen 1-1 0-1 2; Nunamaker1-1 1-1 3. TOTALS: 28-61 610 69.HARVARD, 54-53 at Lavietes PavilionYale 30 23--53Harvard 28 26--54YALE:Archer 2-5 1-2 5; Braddock 1-6 0-0 2;Grubbs 7-15 4-4 18; Denit 5-11 0-0 11; Bertao 4-91-3 9; Simpson 0-4 0-0 0; Glick 1-3 0-0 2; Riposta0-0 0-0 0; Miller 2-3 2-2 6. TOTALS...
...think it's great that Tatyana is going to college, and especially one like Harvard," said 24-year-old Archer P. Batravil. "Most musicians and athletes never get an education, and then they never have anything to fall back...