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...York City voters dealt a stinging rebuke to Mayor Rudy Giuliani, whose proposed sweeping revisions to the city charter lost by a margin of 3 to 1. The mayor's opponents characterized his proposed revisions as a power play, designed to strengthen City Hall's control over a wide array of programs and initiatives. As Giuliani conceded defeat, his Democratic foes were making gleeful predictions of the vote's effect on next year's Senate race, which is expected to pit the mayor against brand-new New Yorker Hillary Clinton...
Part of my goal is to be at the fore-front of not just charter schools, but schools," Birkett says...
...Carlo J. Abrams, the human resources consultant, the most exciting thing about charter schools--and the Banneker--is that the traditional bureacracy is bypassed...
...There is no such animal [like bureacracy] with charter schools," he says...
...Based on this year's Iowa Reading Test Scores, the Benjamin Banneker Charter School has finally completed what it set out to do three years ago...to meet the educational needs of minority, low-income, and disadvantaged students in Cambridge," reads the school annual report...