Word: attends
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Dole, who graduated from Harvard Law School (HLS) in 1965, was one of the first women to attend HLS. She was president of the American Red Cross from 1991 until this January, when she resigned to explore the possibility of running for the presidency as the Republican candidate...
...schools have been largely successful. In Los Angeles, it typically takes local school districts a year to buy computers for its classrooms. But in San Fernando Valley's Vaughn Next Century Charter School, it took only six days-and the school paid less. In Mesa, Ariz., 2,000 students attend 50 charter schools, with phenomenal results. In Detroit, charter schools have been implemented to improve the poor results of inner city schools. According to Superintendent David Snead, "The charter idea is helping encourage other schools in our district to examine what they are doing." Polices such as these have been...
...murky, but, as the State Supreme Court of Wisconsin and the Supreme Court of the United States have said, vouchers give parents money so that they can decide which school is best for their child. It is the parents, not the government, who decide where their child will attend...
Alexander F. Rubalcava '02, who also attend yesterday's address, sided with Wilson...
Vouchers may be the next big thing in American education. Thousands of students in Cleveland and Milwaukee, Wis., are using tax dollars to attend private schools, and Florida is poised to adopt the nation's first statewide program. Texas, New Mexico and Pennsylvania may follow. In New York City, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani is thinking of introducing vouchers, though his schools' chancellor has threatened to resign if the mayor does. Privately funded voucher programs have sprung up in an additional 39 cities, and this week the largest such program in the U.S., founded by Wal-Mart scion John Walton and financier...