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Different professors point to different programs. Financial aid programs, Head Start, school choice and programs designed to assist economically disadvantaged children are mentioned regularly...
Everyone seems to have a plan to assist the citizens of the former Soviet Union, and the CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY is no exception. For the past month, journalism students at the 237-year-old Moscow State University have been studying in the newly renovated L. Ron Hubbard Reading Room. Scientology propaganda in dozens of languages lines the walls, and video equipment is available. Pictures of Hubbard decorate the corridors, along with a bronze bust of "The Founder." Students, who have only the vaguest idea who Hubbard is, are impressed by the lavish appointments. But Western scholars in Moscow are outraged...
...Assist with those elements of society that are in need of help way beyond anything the states can deliver. The Federal Government has an important role to play in programs for the disabled, special education, enrichment programs like Head Start. Ronald Reagan and ((former Education Secretary William)) Bennett used to really piss me off when they said they wanted to "get the Federal Government out of education," as if the Federal Government were in education. Ninety percent of the dollars for education are state and local. But that final 10% is crucial, because some programs have no political constituency...
...Baker did so with a straight face and a practiced hint of sadness. Like a compassionate schoolteacher calmly instructing a roomful of dim students, the Secretary of State repeatedly insisted that election-year politics had nothing to do with last week's announcement of the Administration's plan to assist the former Soviet Union. "We've been working on it for months," Baker explained, adding that the President wanted his proposals made public before Boris Yeltsin faces a restless Congress of People's Deputies this week. That much was true, but the rest was nonsense...
Berkery got the second half started on a good note as she scored her second goal off a Hansen assist to put the Crimson up 9-3 with 23:56 remaining...