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The Texas decision, which affects the nation's second largest school system after California, is sure to breathe new life into the struggle for more uniform school financing around the country. But by calling for a basic shift in the way schools operate, the court changed the terms of the...
The decision came less than a week after President George Bush and the nation's Governors huddled in Charlottesville, Va., for an education summit that endorsed several of the same ideas -- radical restructuring of schools and creation of national performance goals. "The Texas ruling is consistent with the growing national...
Such moves indicate that the once sacred principle of local control is rapidly going the way of McGuffey's Reader. "This nation was intensely committed to the idea that each district should be run by school boards unrelated to larger national purposes," says Ernest Boyer, president of the Carnegie Foundation...
At week's end Texas Governor Bill Clements and other state leaders were getting ready to appoint a special study group to prepare proposals for the legislature, which must come up with a new school-financing plan by May 1, 1990. Everything from a hike in state sales and tobacco...
More than 25 years ago, Desafinado and The Girl from Ipanema swayed the world to the sinuous sound of bossa nova. Now a new generation of musicians is discovering the old seducer: Brazil. Some of the world's leading pop stars -- David Byrne, Paul Simon and Peter Gabriel among them...