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Once again, there is little objective evidence, only personal speculation. David Bennett just stepped down as school superintendent in St. Paul to become president of Education Alternatives, the company that runs the Tesseract schools. It is easy to imagine that Bennett, a proponent of public-school open enrollment, would be a missionary for unrestricted Choice in his private- sector role. Not quite. "No matter how you dress up a voucher system," Bennett says, "the poverty kids will end up with the short end of the stick." In any game of educational musical chairs, someone has to lose. And almost certainly...
...Alexander, 51, brings a degree of political acumen to his job that was never seen under predecessors Lauro Cavazos and William Bennett. He learned from masters, serving first as an aide to Tennessee Senator Howard Baker and then in the Nixon White House before emerging in his own right as a two-term Republican Governor (1979-87). This background gives him a big advantage when he travels to Capitol Hill, as he often does, to lobby for his program. He understands compromise. "I can work with a guy like that," says William Ford, the crusty House education committee chairman...
...Keating campaign gifts for helping with the Feds. Last week, angered at the slow pace of the 18-month probe, North Carolina's Republican Senator Jesse Helms released a 247-page report on the Keating Five based on a draft by the committee's special counsel, Robert Bennett. It recommended that Cranston, 77, be censured for "unequivocally unethical" conduct. Cranston's office charged Helms with partisan politics, and the panel's leaders threatened to investigate Helms himself for leaking the report. Enough already...
...lower class consisted of those who had made no recorded contributions to the local's health and pension plans during the previous three years. They could now legally be paid just $6 an hour, or $240 a week, about half the amount that "A" workers received. In essence, says Bennett, those who had been cheated before 1989 were being cheated again by being paid subpar wages as "new" employees...
...been in this union 46 years, and the members have been hurt so badly," says Bennett, who will seek a vice-presidential post in Orlando next week. "We have boxes full of heartbreaking stories. We have grown men coming in here and bursting into tears over how they've been cheated. It's an awful thing to see, a working man striving to support his family having to resort to tears...