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...Evan Bayh, former Democratic governor of Indiana and currently a candidate for the Senate, focused mainly on education and the economy as examples of areas where fewer federal mandates could benefit the nation in the long...
...governor for eight years, Bayh saw the complications of national programs as solutions to local problems...
...utopian future he called an "exciting time for state governments," Bayh described a federal government that sets standards, provides resources and follows the progress of programs...
...high school Schoen had canvassed races for Morris on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Schoen and his partner, Penn, who had attended Harvard together, later distinguished themselves as New Democratic consultants and pollsters for Mayor Ed Koch of New York City, Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Evan Bayh of Indiana. They had also polled for a succession of Arkansas politicians, including Clinton's rival, former Governor Jim Guy Tucker...
...changed from the inside; this transformation will require more commitment than school uniforms. We must convince people that education will bring economic power. And we must prove it by awarding jobs to qualified individuals. For urban America to harbor hope, it must see examples of success. Keynote speaker Bayh endorsed tougher truancy laws, more drug prevention and school uniforms as means to achieve discipline. Missing were ways to replace the void with compassion. Disciplinary problems are just symptoms of a greater illness. Truancy ends where an incentive to attend school begins, not through tougher punishments. Attendance in body does...