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...seeks to put before voters a ballot initiative in November 2002 that would replace the current bilingual program with a one-year immersion crash course for students who do not speak English. Currently, if there are at least 20 students of limited English proficiency who reside in a Massachusetts school district, that district must provide a three-year program that brings those students to competency in English. At the same time, it must provide additional native language instruction in other subjects, such as math and science, so that students do not fall behind their peers in learning course content...
...debate became all the more relevant following a Boston Globe report yesterday that Unz had accumulated enough signatures to put his proposal on the 2002 Massachusetts ballot. Boston-area high school teachers, administrators and members of the Massachusetts Board of Education were in the audience, as well as concerned parents and students...
...Life. But let's also think twice before crowning him. By last Monday, Giuliani had made up his mind that the city couldn't get by without him. He decided to persuade the state legislature to overturn term limits, and to seek a third term on the Conservative Party ballot. Friends, especially his companion Judith Nathan, had convinced him that voters were so grateful they wouldn't mind messing with the electoral laws. But just before his press conference that day, other voices intruded. His friend John McCain warned that the effort to change the rules would diminish Giuliani, make...
...marchers, organized by the Mass. Voters for a Clean Elections, came out to protest the fact that although Mass. voters passed the Clean Elections law in a statewide ballot referendum three years ago, the state has yet to fund the legislation...
...Life. But let's also think twice before crowning him. By last Monday, Giuliani had made up his mind that the city couldn't get by without him. He decided to persuade the state legislature to overturn term limits, and to seek a third term on the Conservative Party ballot. Friends, especially his companion Judith Nathan, had convinced him that voters were so grateful they wouldn't mind messing with the electoral laws. But just before his press conference that day, other voices intruded. His friend John McCain warned that the effort to change the rules would diminish Giuliani, make...