Word: businger
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nowhere is the shift more apparent than in the field of civil rights. In briefs before the Supreme Court two weeks ago, Solicitor General Rex E. Lee startled the legal community by arguing that there was no "federal interest" in the questions of whether states can exclude the children of...
The Attorney General insists that he is still committed to enforcing civil rights laws and is only rejecting the traditional remedies of busing and quotas, which have become increasingly unpopular with the public. "Our goal is the same as our predecessors, to eliminate the vestiges of discrimination," says Smith. "We...
Education Week's first edition offered a splendid scoop: a series of excerpts from the 91-page secret memo written by Secretary of Education Terrel Bell telling how he plans to dismantle the Education Department and change the Government's role in education. Wolk's staff of...
What started the anticourt drive was conservative anger at federal court opinions that, among other things, legalized abortion, outlawed school prayer and supported the use of busing to achieve desegregation. Even before those rulings were handed down, conservative wrath had been aroused by the federal judiciary's strong protection...
SCHOOL PRAYER. Helms has reintroduced a bill banning Supreme Court review of cases involving prayer in public schools, and a Senate Judiciary subcommittee has scheduled hearings on it for next January or February. But Hatch has scheduled competing hearings on a plan of his own to restrict the powers of...