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...Rosemary Perlmeter, president of the non-profit Dallas-based Coalition of Effective Charters (CEC), has proposed giving more state money to successful charter schools while enacting more stringent laws to rein in underperforming ones. Traditional public schools receive $800 per student per year for "facility fees" and campus improvements, Perlmeter points out, but charter schools receive none. "Public schools that are consistently performing at high levels should be supported and nurtured whether they are charter or traditional," Perlmeter says. "If they're underperforming or irresponsibly using government funds, they should be closed...
...Palestinian Authority holds its first parliamentary election in a decade on Wednesday, Jarrett N. Blanc ’97 is leading a delegation of Western electoral experts to provide technical assistance to the Palestinian Central Election Commission (CEC). As the chair of the delegation sent by the International Foundation for Election Systems (IFES), Blanc is advising both the CEC and the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC)—the Palestinians’ 132-seat parliament—on a host of technical issues including GIS mapping, information and database technology, and voter registration and education...
...They are a really fast team and they row very well technically,” Bates said. “As for our rivalry, as [head coach] Cec [Tucker] said after our race when she was presenting Princeton with the cup, we have a strong rivalry on the water but off the water we try to come together and work towards building a faster and bigger league for lightweight women’s rowing. It’s really great to have teams like Princeton who are a little bit faster than us and give us something to work towards...
While important in the establishment of HUCTW in 1988, the CEC took most of its cues from an active union leadership...
...PSLM faced a different set of circumstances than the CEC when students began campaigning for a living wage in the late 1990s...