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...will be the first to admit that the Ivy League is no ACC or SEC, but to let that fact adversely impact the potential recognition an excellent player deserves is inexcusable. Allison Feaster's name should have been put on the AP Ballot, and there are several reasons...
...best players in the nation, and she would continue to be if she were at a big-time basketball powerhouse like Connecticut or Louisiana Tech. Would she still be averaging 28.5 points per game? Probably not, but she might have gotten her name onto the Player of the Year ballot...
Placed on the ballot through the voter initiative process at the hands of Ron Unz, a conservative Silicon Valley entrepreneur, Proposition 227 promotes English-only instruction for students with limited English skills, who comprise more than one fifth of the 5.5 million population. Instead of promising students whose first tongue is not English bilingual education, the new system will force all students not proficient in English into a one-year crash course in the English language. After the year-long course, parents who want to keep their children in bilingual education programs could attempt to do so by seeking...
Nonetheless, the proposal has attracted broad support from voters. A poll published in the Sacramento Bee last Dec. 9 reported that nearly seven of 10 California voters favor a proposed ballot measure to scrap bilingual education in public schools and replace it with a short-term English immersion program. More interestingly, though, is the source of support: the poll found approval for the proposed initiative running strongly across all ethnic groups--including 66 percent of Latino voters. The high percentage of supporters among the Latino community is significant, given that the Latino students are the ones who will be most...
Plan E did, however, come up for review on the ballot five times after it was originally adopted...