Word: bulleting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...years ago, the concept of privatization--in which a for-profit company takes over the management of some, or all, school functions--seemed like it might be a magic bullet for the nation's ailing, bureaucratically entrenched public schools. Now it appears that the champions of privatization may have seriously underestimated the challenges--political, organizational and financial--of such radical change. Christopher Whittle's highly touted Edison Project has only four schools in operation. Education Alternatives, Inc., based in Bloomington, Minnesota, has signed no new clients in more than a year. Its contract to manage an elementary school in Miami...
That arrangement was disrupted when he was 14 and two men from the project staged a shoot-out in front of the bedroom Marshall shared with his mother. Fascinated, "like any dumb kid would be," says Marshall, he dashed outside to see the action and narrowly escaped a bullet. His mother, Marshall recalls, was "very, very upset. It was the idea she couldn't keep us safe." For the next two years, Marshall lived with his grandfather, a proud, hardworking janitor for 40 years, who, Marshall says, "taught me more about being a man than any other man I have...
...WORLD HAS SEEN IT ALL BEFORE: a cease-fire is signed, the guns fall silent, hopes rise. Then somewhere in Bosnia a sniper's bullet or a mortar round or a tank attack sheds blood, and war begins again. Countless times since the start of the wars of Yugoslavia in 1991, a truce has been declared. Each time it has collapsed. Last week U.S. diplomats tried again, negotiating a cessation of hostilities that could take effect as early as Tuesday. But in contrast to the many failures of the past, there is a chance this one could last, clearing...
...community rebelled. Five school-board members who supported the plan were later recalled. Last year the partnership effort was dropped. No one felt the fallout more than ousted board member Fred Prehn, who had championed the plan. "I received phone messages telling me that I would get a bullet in my head and that my child would never reach the first grade," said Prehn, a dentist. He says eight white families stormed into his office, denounced him as a "Hmong lover" and took their business elsewhere. Under threat of a lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties Union, the new board...
...pretend I'm going to find the silver bullet, the solution, but I do hope to stimulate dialogue," he said...