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...needed people who were going to roll up their sleeves and get dirty." Instead, Daniels says the company's leaders never held a full staff meeting until May, far too late to make an impact. Although the company set up its Philadelphia offices in their building, Shoemaker teachers say Chancellor Beacon seemed corporate and inaccessible. "I don't see them at all. It was a waste of money," says Glorybelle Marcial, Shaliah's science teacher...
Shoemaker in the fall. Still, for all her daughter's troubles, Tanya is somewhat sympathetic to the challenges Chancellor Beacon faced. "The district expected them to do in months what it hasn't been able to do for decades," she says...
Tanya had taken Shaliah out of a charter school and moved her to Shoemaker last fall, pleased that Chancellor Beacon Academies, a Florida-based for-profit company, was taking over the school. She had reason to be optimistic: Chancellor Beacon charter schools in Florida and New York had performed above the state and national norms. In Philadelphia, however, Chancellor Beacon became the only management company fired by the district. According to Philly schools chief Vallas, the company failed to "create a presence" and didn't provide teacher training, shrink class size or offer after-school programs--all goals...
...recommend new judges and the creation of a U.S.-style Supreme Court to replace the Law Lords as the highest court. The 1,400-year-old post of Lord Chancellor - who is not only a legislator in the House of Lords, but a Cabinet minister and head of the judiciary - will be abolished and its responsibilities transferred to a new Department of Constitutional Affairs, which will also be responsible for Scotland and Wales. In the reshuffle, which followed the resignation of Health Secretary Alan Milburn, the number of Cabinet posts was reduced from 23 to 21. Rocky Road to Peace...
...second landslide victory in the 2001 election. Blair can always take comfort that whatever consumes the political class in Westminster - like the current flap over his arrogant announcement, in a press release and without prior consultation, that he planned to eliminate the 1,400-year-old office of Lord Chancellor, create a Supreme Court and appoint his old flatmate to be Minister of Constitutional Affairs - he remains the most consistently popular Prime Minister since the 1960s. But at the risk of offering one of those gloomy prognoses he is so good at confounding, I would argue that Blair has reached...