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...schools, which receive direct Federal Government funding because they have large numbers of low-income students, students can transfer to another school or receive free tutoring if their school fails for two years in a row to improve its test scores. Bush's education bill won bipartisan praise 20 months ago, but now Democrats and some congressional Republicans, state governments, school superintendents, principals and teachers are sharply attacking No Child Left Behind. Illinois Senator Richard Durbin, a Democrat who voted for the law, last week called for a suspension of the act's provisions until Bush provides more money...
...admit the failure of the administration's own postwar strategy. But some of President Bush's domestic critics are demanding he do just that. Democratic presidential hopeful Senator John Kerry, for example, has called on the administration to hand political control in Baghdad over to the UN, and mounting bipartisan concern over the cost of the occupation mission is raising pressure on the White House to seek international consensus...
...have sounded suspiciously like campaign warm-ups. In an appearance at New York University last week, Clark wowed the crowd with his thoughts on Iraq (he opposed the war and now calls for U.N. involvement); impressions of the former Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic; and a heartfelt call for mature, bipartisan debate in Washington. "I fought for the right of people to protest," he said. "I fought for the right to question the President...
Republicans countered by arguing that a nominee’s ideology should not matter. Instead Senate Republicans cited Estrada’s superb qualifications and wide bipartisan support, insinuating that Democrats held his Hispanic heritage against...
Just a day after its disclosure, a Pentagon proposal to run a terrorism futures--trading market was shut down after it met with bipartisan derision. A letter sent by Democrats to John Poindexter, the program's architect, said such a market, which would have allowed people to speculate on terrorist strikes, assassinations and coups, was "wasteful and absurd." Poindexter is expected to leave his Pentagon post in the wake of the controversy, but we may not have heard the last of the plan. "The p.r. has been bad," says George Neumann, a University of Iowa economics professor. "But people...