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PLAN: Oppose vouchers. Allow parents to choose best public school, or publicly accountable charter school, for their child. Support standardized teacher testing, accountability. Provide report cards on individual school performance. Invest $115 billion in rebuilding schools and updating technology...
...spends less money more effectively. The Gore campaign's total education expenditure is projected at $115 billion over 10 years, mostly for the hiring of 100,000 more teachers. Bush, on the other hand, will spend $25 million over the next five years to invest in loans for new charter schools and to create a teacher training fund, spent in ways chosen by each state according to its needs...
Harvard's charter charges the Harvard Corporation--the oldest corporation in the Western hemisphere--with the business of picking presidents...
...Other: Sex Education School Safety Charter Schools - In Oregon subject content that "promotes" homosexuality or bisexualism would be banned at all state-funded learning institutions including those in prisons and hospitals - Georgia's teachers, school administrators and other school employees could get the same protection its cops do if an initiative that provides indemnification if they are "killed or permanently disabled by an act of violence in the line of duty." - Washington would become the 37th state that provides funds to establish charter schools...
...farmer who said the crash was the loudest thing he'd ever heard. On KMOX talk radio, callers discuss the peculiar nature of campaigning in Missouri, which because it contains a fair number of good-sized towns not served by commercial air flight requires candidates to often travel by charter or personal aircraft. The accident itself is eerily similar to one 24 years ago, when Democrat Rep. Jerry Litton's plane crashed soon after takeoff as he was flying to Kansas City to accept his party's nomination for the U.S. Senate...