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...attracting members, history is on the side of the FLA. The organization was founded a year and half ago, in November 1998, as the result of a 1996 presidential task force convened to address worker rights. The charter was signed in June...
...almost as big an issue in the upcoming primary as the candidates. Residents of Detroit are unhappy with the way the state took over the school board and eliminated a residency requirement for city employees. Some public school teachers don't like the way Engler pushed through 173 charter schools. And Democratic-leaning union officials just want to make a little trouble. Though the officials insist they aren't organizing turn-out-the-vote crusades, a top Lansing labor figure told TIME last week, "To the degree we can bloody Bush up and make Engler look bad, heck, that...
...little more than eight years later, few students have more than a vague recollection that such a publication ever existed. After its brief but intense period of notoriety, Peninsula languished, losing writers, financial backers and ultimately its own charter. After seven years in print, it fizzled out altogether in the fall...
...McLaughlin and other editors cut off the journal's alumni charter, preferring to keep its $20,000 in the bank for a rainy day when Peninsula is again needed--and when worthy conservatives are there to pick up its banner...
...unusual coalition of inner-city parents and conservative groups--retort that the judge misread both the Cleveland program and the First Amendment. They point out that Cleveland parents who don't like parochial schools can send their kids to the city's regular public schools, or to public charter schools and magnet schools. Clint Bolick, a lawyer for the Institute for Justice, which defended the voucher program, says, "No one can compel a child into the program or into a religious school...