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...April meeting will include votes on several proposals which could potentially be included in next year’s budget, including moving fifth through eighth grade classes for students with emotional disabilities to the Peabody School, which already includes a K-4 class for such students. However, this change would require moving the Special Start program, a preschool for children with disabilities, to another school, which may disrupt the “history and community ties” that the school has, said Nicholas Gross, a parent and school council member at Peabody School...
...order to meet this goal, the administration should expand the number of Harvard professors who teach such classes. In the past, economics seminars were generally headed by visiting faculty members. When the department’s visitor budget was slashed last year in the name of streamlining costs, there were fewer instructors on campus to teach the seminars. This was cited as a reason for the program’s temporary elimination. Although the department recently experienced an influx of visiting faculty, thanks to a partially restored budget, it should not depend on outside instructors to teach its most intimate...
...Congressional Budget office estimates that 95% of legal Americans will have health insurance after the law is fully implemented by 2016, adding approximately 32 million previously uninsured people to the health-coverage rolls. Health insurers have long argued for tougher government mandates that would require more of those who are generally healthy to get health insurance, which helps spread the risk in the pool of insured. (See the sticking points on House and Senate health reform...
...Enroll America will focus on enticing the final 5% of Americans who will be eligible for health insurance under the new law but whom congressional budget scorers do not expect to enroll. On a state-by-state basis, the group will work to create an easy application process for benefits, including access to enrollment at doctors' offices, pharmacies and government agencies that provide other benefits like food stamps. "All of these groups have a business reason to do this," says Pollack, who notes that his new coalition would include "many groups that don't really...
...Merkel has so far been unmoved. She says that Greece, which has enacted stiff austerity measures to slash its budget deficit, does not need an influx of outside money yet. She is backed by the German public, which is reluctant to spend its hard-earned cash bailing out a country it sees as reckless, feckless and even corrupt...