Word: bushes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although most Governors agreed that more federal spending on schools is not the answer to their problems, they did ask that Bush help them hack through the thicket of regulations that accompany existing federal education grants. Bush agreed, in the words of Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton, to "swap red tape for results" in disbursing federal money. Those funds now come encumbered by rules that, for example, prevent night classes of adults from using computers bought for day classes of handicapped students...
...Governors, in turn, pledged to promote two of Bush's favorite nostrums: freedom for parents to choose which public schools their children attend, and "alternative certification" for career switchers who move into teaching. Bush and the Governors also agreed on the need for school "restructuring," which generally means letting individual schools be run by teachers, principals and parents rather than by bureaucrats in district headquarters or state capitals...
...issues like abortion and religion -- seems to be O'Connor. "Liberals have a chance of picking up her vote in some cases," notes American University law professor Herman Schwartz, and so many lawyers target her as the vital swing vote. But that narrow opening may be lost if George Bush gets to fill a seat. With three of the liberal Justices over 80, it is possible that one or more places will become vacant in the next four years. And Bush "has shown nothing to indicate the move of the court is wrong," says Columbia University law professor Vivian Berger...
CUTTING CAPITAL GAINS. A broad tax break for capital gains, as the House approved and President Bush supports, would in the long run be expensive and dumb. Applying the break to investments we already own does nothing to encourage us to make new ones. Any tax break should be on future investments only...
...make special-needs adoption more attractive. In 1980 Congress passed a sweeping reform of adoption and child-welfare laws that, among other things, offered for the first time a federal stipend -- $200 to $300 a month -- to some adoptive parents of special-needs children. Just last month President Bush proposed legislation to make them eligible for a $3,000 tax break...